My former hometown of Atlanta, a city known for its urban sprawl, is doubling down on health – and possibly wealth – with its investment in the Atlanta BeltLine trail.
Its patchwork sprawl is almost twice as large as Singapore.
In developing countries like India, where the population is over one billion, one-sixth of the world's population, urban sprawl is taking its toll on the natural resources at an alarming pace.
While Los Angeles is understandable given its sprawl, Bogota is famous for pioneering a special Bus Rapid Transit system that has dedicated lanes and designed pick-up stops to make bus transit faster.
"Is Suburban Sprawl on Its Way Back?" (news analysis, Sunday Review, Sept. 15) questions whether suburban sprawl is on the resurgence.
In this essay, we document that sprawl is ubiquitous and that it is continuing to expand.
If sprawl is New Jersey's most persistent blight, then the south of South Jersey is its last unscarred territory.
That's what sprawl is for.
