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Sprawl significantly predicts chronic medical conditions and health-related quality of life, although it doesn't predict mental health disorders. [5] The American Journal of Public Health and the American Journal of Health Promotion, have both stated that there is a significant connection between sprawl, obesity , and hypertension .
A typical suburban development in the United States, located in Chandler, Arizona An urban development in Palma, Mallorca. Urban sprawl (also known as suburban sprawl or urban encroachment [1]) is defined as "the spreading of urban developments (such as houses, dense multi–family apartments, office buildings and shopping centers) on undeveloped land near a more or less densely populated city".
Heroin in suburban communities has increased in incidence as new heroin users in the United States are predominantly white suburban men and women in their early twenties. [21] Adolescents and young adults are at an increased risk of drug abuse in suburban spaces due to the enclosed social and economic enclaves that surburbanization propagates.
Pincetl said those looking for someone to blame should look at "suburban sprawl." "But people don't want to hold suburban sprawl accountable. We are all fairly complicit in this land-use pattern ...
WASHINGTON -- Stung by high gasoline costs, outlying suburbs that sprouted in the heady 2000s are now seeing their growth fizzle to historic lows, halting American city dwellers' decades-long ...
It’s extremely expensive to clean up the damage due to suburban sprawl, extreme weather and climate change. | Op-ed by Rep. Davina Duerr
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape is a book written in 1993 by James Howard Kunstler exploring the effects of suburban sprawl, civil planning, and the automobile on American society and is an attempt to discover how and why suburbia has ceased to be a credible human habitat, and what society might do about it.
Opinion by Marek Warszawski: “The bill for Clovis’s explosive, unshackled growth has come due.”