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Article: Sprawl: what's in a name?(metropolitan areas )
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- Business Review (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)
- Article date:
- December 22, 2004
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What lies behind concerns about the way metropolitan areas have been spreading out over the past several decades? This spreading out, commonly known as sprawl, is reflected in lower density and centralization in metropolitan areas. In this article, Tim Schiller looks at some recent trends toward lower population and employment density in metro areas and discusses some of the underlying forces propelling these trends.
In the elections of 2003, voters in 16 states passed measures to use public funds to preserve undeveloped land. One such measure was passed in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, a suburban county neighboring the city of Philadelphia. These political ...