Sprawl: It's All In The Naming

"According to the May 1 Federal Register, the municipalities and the territory between them are now a single, new urban area called South Lyon-Brighton-Howell, population 106,139. 'They saw the low-density nightmare that we have become and, presto, defined this blob as an urban area,' Mike Craine, managing director of the Livingston County Road Commission, said recently.... In the beginning, there was South Lyon, there was Brighton and there was Howell. [Then] they got hyphenated."