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**Xzmwskxn** · 05-05-2007, 09:39 AM

Originally posted by lord of the mark
Here in the USA, some folks use the word "sprawl" for the movement of offices, and higher density residential development to the suburbs.

Which sort of is alright, cause such things, as theyre typically cited, do cause all the problems associated with sprawl, and so "antisprawl" planner types typically use the word that way as well. OTOH it can lead to some folks associating sprawl with increasing densities in general, and not understanding that traditional USA low density suburban development is "sprawl".

To some extent "sprawl" here means "any development I dont like" When I was at school we were taught about two kinds of sprawl in human geography. Urban sprawl and suburban sprawl.

Covers your two descriptions and differentiates the meanings, assuming they aren't then used interchangeably.

05-05-2007, 09:39 AM	#18
Xzmwskxn Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 478 Senior Member	Originally posted by lord of the mark Here in the USA, some folks use the word "sprawl" for the movement of offices, and higher density residential development to the suburbs. Which sort of is alright, cause such things, as theyre typically cited, do cause all the problems associated with sprawl, and so "antisprawl" planner types typically use the word that way as well. OTOH it can lead to some folks associating sprawl with increasing densities in general, and not understanding that traditional USA low density suburban development is "sprawl". To some extent "sprawl" here means "any development I dont like" When I was at school we were taught about two kinds of sprawl in human geography. Urban sprawl and suburban sprawl. Covers your two descriptions and differentiates the meanings, assuming they aren't then used interchangeably.
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