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 is an archetypal modern sprawl city, and droughts are expected to become more common as Earth’s climate changes. The sprawl "caused the storms to intensify, and that came to a final ...

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 ...

(WXIA) – A new report from Reid Ewing and Shima Hamidi with the University of Utah examined the largest 162 urbanized areas in the United States and measured them on a "Sprawl Index" based on ...

Atlanta's booming film industry, expanding walkability, ... Movies, Urban Sprawl & More: The Future Of Atlanta CRE Atlanta View count: Atlanta. November 29, 2016 ...

From China to The Netherlands, cities are moving towards urban sprawl, says Gravel Project can be a "catalyst for a change" in a world facing sustainable-development challenges Atlanta CNN — ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.