urban sprawl
English
Etymology
First used in 1937.[1]
Noun
urban sprawl (countable and uncountable, plural urban sprawls)
- (urban studies) An unplanned, disorganized growth of housing etc. on the edge of a city.
Translations
growth of housing
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See also
Further reading
urban sprawl on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
- ^ Suinyuy Derrick Ngoran (2014) Socio-environmental Impacts of Sprawl on the Coastline Of Douala, Anchor Academic Publishing, page 25: “According to Wassmer (2002), the term, “urban sprawl”, was first used in 1937 by Earle Draper of the Tennesse Valley Authority (TVA), USA, in a national conference of planners.”