How Sprawl Has Changed Lifestyles
14 September 2004 - 12:00pm
Sprawling suburbs have changed the lifestyle of Americans.
"An aggressive push into outlying areas in recent decades spread the population farther out, gobbling up an extra 25 million acres nationwide - or a 47 percent increase - between 1982 and 1997 alone, the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C., think tank, found recently.
The population grew only 17 percent."
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The Buffalo News, September 13, 2004
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