Urban centers feel the impact as new residents move beyond the traditional suburbs.
"Using satellite photos of nighttime lights to measure sprawl, he has concluded that his family, and a third of all Americans, are living in 'exurbia' -- places just beyond the suburbs where the country looks like country again, beyond the limits of most studies of urban growth.
...'We wanted any growth for any reason, any time, any place, any how,' said Kathi Williams, director of the Colorado Division of Housing. "Then, of course, we came into the boom years, and we saw just exactly what the product of that was.' "
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