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All Documents in Energy Tagged sprawl

In Contrast: Smart Growth versus Sprawl
Photo Album: Sprawling development eats up farms, meadows and forests, turning them into strip malls and subdivisions that serve cars better than people. This photo essay illustrates the damage that sprawl causes, and shows practical alternatives that can preserve the landscape and improve the quality of our daily lives.

Documents Tagged sprawl in All Issue Sections

Picturing Smart Growth Visions for Sustainable Communities Across America Guides: Cities and towns across the country are embracing smart growth as a better solution to meet the needs of their growing populations. Smart growth principles accommodate growth and development while saving open space, revitalizing neighborhoods and helping cool the planet. See visions created through photo-editing software for how 70 communities across the country could apply smart growth principles and improve their streets and neighborhoods.
How Smart Growth Solves Sprawl
Photo Album: We all have a pretty good idea of what sprawl looks like -- the endless strip malls, anonymous suburbs, and long lines of traffic. These pages offer a look at the solutions to sprawl, featuring towns and cities across the United States that are choosing smart-growth neighborhoods for their communities.
Solving Sprawl: An Overview
News: Sprawl -- the blighted landscape of cookie-cutter suburbs, strip malls, and far too many highways that has spread across so much of America -- is a hot topic. But all across America, communities are finding alternative ways to grow and prosper that beat back sprawl, save landscapes and improve quality of life. A new book from NRDC, Solving Sprawl, tells this heartening story.
Unwelcome (Human) Neighbors: Sprawl and Wildlife
Issue Papers: A policy paper detailing how roads and sprawling neighborhoods are replacing pristine wildlife habitats at an alarming pace, putting the survival and reproduction of plants and animals at risk.