Post 5: Urban Sprawl

Nia Mallette

         The topic I want to take the time and discuss, is Urban Sprawl. For those of you who have no clue what Urban Sprawl is, in short, it is when you build houses in places that shouldn't be built, because you have a lot of people in that population and you're running out of land to put them. So you build a house in the middle of the forest, or you cut down a lot of tress from that forrest and make a town there. This is a brief description of what Urban Sprawl is. 

       

         The problem with doing this is that, "Urban Sprawl has been correlated too with increased energy use, pollution and traffic congestion and a decline in community distinctiveness and cohesiveness". This is because when you liven places like this everything is far and unconventional which makes you have to use your car more, which causes transportation pollution. Urban Sprawl also leads to complete destruction of wildlife. In order to live in a place like this you have to cut down and destroy animals environment. This is extremely selfish, in order to satisfy humans needs, animals have to suffer. All in all, Urban Sprawl needs to come to an end. 

https://www.britannica.com/topic/urban-sprawl