4 days ago · Our data include resources useful to the study of urbanization and urban sprawl, such as metropolitan statistical areas, heat estimates, nighttime lights datasets, and population density grids. These products help scientists understand the ecological, sociological, and economic impact of growing cities around the world.

Apr 17, 2004 · Urban Sprawl - posted in Urban Design and Planning: What is called Urban Sprawl seems to be right up there with killing baby seals and global warming as a negative concept.I think I understand the term as more or less uncontrolled horizontal growth in housing and services for an increasing population of any given area. This growth covers previously undeveloped land, sometimes including ...

Feb 2, 2019 · Page 1 of 2 - Will Urban Sprawl Survive to 2119 - posted in Urban Design and Planning: In 100 years, Fort Worth will be dense and vertical. Freeways will be non existent. Neighborhoods like Walsh Ranch will be ruins. Is this a real possibility?

Jan 22, 2014 · Page 1 of 3 - So where is Fort Worth's urban growth? - posted in Urban Design and Planning: We are always hearing about how FW and the DFW area is among the fastest growing in terms of population in the country. But I look through the city compilations threads on Skyscraperpage and some of these cities are building some great stuff.

Nov 16, 2005 · Los Angeles is the worst city for urban sprawl, followed by Washington/Baltimore; San Francisco Bay; New York City; and the Dallas-Fort Worth area to round out the top five. Elsewhere in Texas, the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria area is the 11th worst metropolitan area for sprawl and San Antonio is the 17th worst area.

Oct 28, 2004 · How to educate all of FW about urban planning? - posted in Urban Design and Planning: Assuming public unawareness about sprawl and alternatives to sprawl is a large factor contributing to Fort Worth's sprawling development patterns, how would you educate the public to increase awareness?What results would you hope to achieve from the campaign? (in the short run and in the long run?) GHughes ...

Feb 21, 2012 · Far North FW growth - posted in City Issues: Bill Hanna tackles the thorny problem of urban sprawl in this Star-Telegram article about people’s feeling of alienation from Fort Worth because they live so far north (in the Alliance area). I have mixed feelings about this: I sympathize with these people for having been lured to this area under false pretenses (I …

Jan 11, 2013 · Urbanizing the Sprawl - posted in Urban Design and Planning: I made a post in the Modern Streetcar is Dead thread that didnt exactly seem to fit in with the topic of that discussion, so lets start a new thread. Heres the post:Magnolia Avenue is now a slower street with fewer traffic lanes and the neighborhood is *booming* since that change happened. I think youd find that the vast majority of ...

Dec 26, 2019 · Suburban Sprawl Making Cities Functionally Insolvent - posted in Urban Design and Planning: I saw this article posted elsewhere and I thought I would share it with the forum.

Jun 2, 2020 · Engineering Cities: housing, sprawl, etc. - posted in Urban Design and Planning: A YouTube channel on engineering that I subscribe to has had a few videos over the years that discuss many of the topics we discuss here. I watched one of them again recently and thought Id share a couple of them here.