Urban Sprawl: U.S. Can Learn From Germany

Germany, in many ways a laudable model of smart growth, has well-established urbanization traditions embodied in public policies and strong land-use regulations...German cities and towns have distinct edges, unambiguous perimeter boundaries where urbanized land meets undeveloped countryside.Compare this with U.S. towns, cities and suburbs. There's no such thing as a crisply defined city edge. Our amorphous urban peripheries bleed into the landscape. Unsightly, traffic-clogged fingers of commercial development reach far out into the countryside and are replete with fast-food outlets, strip malls, gas stations, car dealers, big-box retail stores, warehouses and vast surface parking lots."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan