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"To be effective, anti-sprawl efforts
must be targeted at the factors that are most responsible for
the encroachment of cities and their suburbs on the surrounding
rural land. The relative contributions of the factors must be
understood if anti-sprawl resources are to be used efficiently
and effectively. SprawlCity.org features U.S. government data
and analysis of that data that allow the visitor to see the
roles of contributing factors in the sprawl of individual urban
areas, states, bio-regions and the nation as a whole.
"About half of all sprawl nationwide is related to U.S. population growth and
the other half is related to land use choices, according to the results of
this scientific analysis of U.S. Bureau of the Census data on the 100 largest
Urbanized Areas of the United States. Over the 20-year period studied, the Areas
examined sprawled out over an additional 14,545 square miles of farmland and
natural habitats -- and that was just for the half of Americans who live in
the 100 Areas studied. The findings suggest that plans and programs from
governmental agencies, think tanks, universities and advocacy groups aimed at
stopping sprawl must include a two-pronged approach using both
land-use/consumption
tools and population stabilization in order to halt urban sprawl."
In our view, SprawlCity.org is one organization which not only makes the
connection between population growth and urban sprawl, but it acknowledges both
contributors to population growth: births and migration.
SprawlCity.org has not been evaluated by BBB Wise Giving Alliance.
To visit their website, please click on SprawlCity.org.
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