Wrestling Sprawl to the Ground: Defining and measuring an elusive concept


Relatively Few Square Miles Rather Than Spread Evenly across the UA



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Wrestling Sprawl to the Ground
Relatively Few Square Miles Rather Than Spread Evenly across the UA
A
High Concentration
B
Low Concentration
= UA border MA Square mile One-quarter of a square mile Vacant parcel Undevelopable land 1,000 units
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flooding and erosion. Clustered development may also reduce travel distances within a development, but not necessarily between home and work if they are situated indifferent parts of the area.
In figure 4, the development in A has been clustered so that it occupies half or less than half of the land area in each of the large squares. In B,
the same amount of development in each large square is more evenly distributed. Thus B’s development is more sprawl-like overall on this dimension.
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Figure 4. Clustering: The Degree to Which Development Has Been

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