The most recent confirmation of Atlanta’s status as an icon of American sprawl comes in a new report from Smart Growth America called “ Measuring Sprawl 2014.”This group, which advocates for ...

Urban sprawl and human sprawl (obesity) correlate. In fact, one of the first studies on that was done by Professor Lawrence Frank at Georgia Tech specifically looking at the Atlanta metro area.

ATLANTA—“Atlanta takes up over 11 times as much land and produces six times the transport-related carbon emissions per person as Barcelona.” ATLANTA—Would you believe urban sprawl costs ...

More information: Kelsey Carlston et al, Urban Sprawl and Intergenerational Mobility: City- and Neighborhood-Level Effects of Sprawl, Economic Development Quarterly (2024). DOI: 10.1177 ...

Connecting Atlanta’s urban core to nature. In a city like Atlanta, where urban sprawl is common and green spaces are often separated by miles of highways, biophilic design can help bridge the ...

New Census Bureau data, released in October, showed the number of Atlanta transit commuters declined by 6,000 from 2010 to 2013 — the biggest drop of any American city. Fight sprawl with sprawl ...

Sprawl for me but not for thee. ... the population of this Atlanta exurb, 45 miles northwest of the city, ... and moratoriums, among other urban-planning tactics to slow down subdivision builders.

To answer some of those questions, the University of Georgia’s Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources has partnered with Wildlife Atlanta to study how coyotes have adapted to urban ...

Urban sprawl is not just unsightly. It could also be impeding intergenerational mobility for low-income residents and reinforcing racial inequality, according to a series of recent studies led by ...

Suburban sprawl, also called urban sprawl, is the spread of urbanized areas into the rural landscape. It can be recognized by low-density single-family homes and new road networks spreading into ...