What is the definition of urban sprawl?

Question

It is connected with social studies.

Answer 1

Suburbs mushrooming here and there as if there were no land's end.

Answer 2

Urban sprawl refers to expansion of a metropolitan area, with largely uncontrolled new land use of previously less developed areas surrounding a more urban core. The term is typically used to describe suburbs, largely residential and often built in tracts by commercial developers. "Urban sprawl" is a loaded term, and generally has negative connotations as frequently employed at the turn of the twenty-first century by critics, often institutional, such as the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The pejorative nature of the term indicates the polemical nature of much critical literature.

Answer 3

Cities with lots of suburbs.

It's the tendency for more and more middle and richer class to "sprawl" out into suburbs in single family dwellings, and commuting into work. Adds to pollution with more and more cars and going further and further to work. Plus, tends to be a dead downtown core where the poor usually live and higher crime rates.

Answer 4

A pattern of land development in which the rate of land consumed exceeds the rate of population growth using the developed land. It can be seen not just in suburbs and housing developments around cities but in the straggle of houses and businesses along roads in rural areas.

Answer 5

urban areas that threaten the green belt