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A 9 page research paper on urban sprawl. From both an historical and modern perspective, the writer examines how the spreading of large cities into "metropolitan areas" which extend outwards into the suburbs, has contributed to social, economic, and even physical decay within the city itself. An analysis of how and why urban sprawl occurs is complemented by case examples. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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profusion (Burnett, 1995). Urban history resembles the cityscape of a moderate-sized North-American American metropolis--Quebec City, Tulsa, perhaps, or Spokane. The center is instantly recognizable by its cluster of office
towers, tall hotels, and multistory department store buildings. Beyond the fringe of downtown, however, the citys density profile drops quickly to mile after mile of low-rise residential neighborhoods, shopping centers,
and industrial districts. Older neighborhoods with their two-story Dutch colonials and one-and-a-half story bungalows give way to one-story subdivisions; subdivisions sprawl toward five-acre martini farms; and the exurbs, in turn,
blend into a true rural landscape. The "density profile" of urban historians and urban histories looks much the same. A handful of writers and books act
as the "downtown" that dominates the fields intellectual landscape. The rest of us constitute an array of sprawling scholarly suburbs. In less metaphorical terms, the field has been shaped both
by a small body of especially powerful work and by a complex network of discussions among scores of moderately influential scholars. To the degree that widespread participation indicates the strength
of a field, urban history is in good shape. For anyone living in the year 1800, life was sharing the planet with only about one billion
other people. Most of them lived in the rural country. By 1800 only 3 percent of the entire population lived in cities. Times have changed. Today there
are 5.5 billion people on earth. By the year 2000, there will be six billion people--and nearly half of them will live in cities. By the year 2010, the large
metropolis of S?o Paulo, Brazil, and its surroundings will be home to about 25 million people. Expected to grow to be the worlds largest metropolitan area, S?o Paulo will have
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