Sentence examples for sprawl drives from inspiring English sources

It's sad enough when urban sprawl drives out farming because land values rise, and you lose that rich interspersal of potato farms and beach houses on Long Island or cornfields and neighbourhoods in Maryland.

Wal-Mart, Norman says, encourages sprawl, drives neighborhood stores into bankruptcy and "blands down" America by morphing towns once known for their regional élan into miles of windowless concrete walls and parking lots.

The 1950s saw the beginning of white flight and urban sprawl, driven by increasing automobile ownership.

To reach the new edge of the southern Californian sprawl, you drive east from Los Angeles for 100 miles and then up over the 4,000-foot 4,000-foot, towards Las Vegas (see map).

ATLANTA may sprawl, but drive a little way south or east and head off the main highways, and you will see that what really powers Georgia is not its biggest city, but its farms.

It is about food marketing and food processing; suburban sprawl and drive-throughs; vending machines and video games; long days and labor-saving technology.

Suburban sprawl and miles driven will increase.

They drove sprawl and oversupply which brought about a collapse in home prices.

Narrow country roads are great for old-fashioned Sunday drives, with sprawling antiques markets providing treasure-hunt stops along the way.

The objective of this paper is to determine the impact of integrative light rail scenarios and their ability to curtail private vehicle driven urban sprawl in the Flemish rhombus.

This kind of controversy too, is common in small towns that have been engulfed by suburban sprawl, as property owners' drive for profits comes increasingly into conflict with residents' preference for the Main Streets they remember so fondly, whether from an earlier day, or from Disneyland's ersatz version.