Sprawl, defined:
Includes “leapfrog” or scattered development,
commercial strips along roadsides, and large expanses
of low-density or single-use development that isolates
living, working, and shopping places from each other.
Sprawl is best defined by it’s impacts or indicators:
including poor accessibility between residences and
other destinations and a lack of functional open space;
and auto-oriented commercial land use at the edge or
beyond existing urbanization.
Prof. Reid Ewing of Florida Int’l University; and Lee
Epstein, Chesapeake Bay Foundation