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February 26, 2008 at 12:31 am
Urban sprawl has been around since cars became popular, people wanted to get away from the city but still be near it and now we have suburbs. Urban sprawl has been amused to cause an increased of pollution, taxes, traffic, and obesity; and loss of farmland and wildlife habitat. US population has increased by 17 cent in the last 15 year and in that same amount of time urbanized land has increased 47 percent. These suburbs or “sprawl areas” are built on rural farming communities and wilderness. Farming land has drop dramatically in the past 20 years and we have all heard the problems with deforestation effecting the habitat of wildlife and causing the endangerment and extinction of many spices.
A big part of the problems with sprawl is the transportation. The sprawl areas are located anywhere from 5 to 20 miles from the nearest big city. Some of them become cities in and of themselves with stores and park and such, but other than that the resident of these areas drive several miles to go anywhere. This causes an increase carbon emissions, also the resident of these areas typically live relatively luxurious lifestyles which only adds to the pollution. If you’ve ever been in a big city at night you know that stars are not always very clear, in some place because of a haze if pollution hang in the air I find it down right gross that we can see the nasty thing we’re breathing yet do very little about it. Obesity has recently become an issue associate with sprawl areas because walking and riding bikes in those areas is not practically because of the proximity of jobs, stores, and etc. The extensive amount of driving has been blamed for increased traffic. To decrease traffic, highway constructions are on the rise. Who is paying for this construction? Well, if you pay taxes you are.
I have my own issues with urban sprawl, most of them have to do with neighborhoods of complete beige, but you can’t deny that there is some thing wrong with all that. As I think of the last time I drove 20 minutes to my friend house in Glen Acres Community with their riding mowers and underground sprinkler systems and serious lack of sidewalks, I realize just how real this stuff is. The thing is if we didn’t have suburbs we would have a lot of people packed into very dense areas. I wonder if that would be any better on society or the environment. Some people think we should have law against urban sprawl but that is nearly impossible because the lines of urban sprawl are not at all black and white. I say the government should at least make and attempt to fix the problem even if it doesn’t do the whole job we should at least make and effort.