GEOS 479 Final Project

The 10 traits of urban sprawl:

  1. Unlimited outward extension of development
  2. Low density residential and commercial settlements
  3. Leapfrog development
  4. Fragmentation of powers of land use among many small localities
  5. Dominance of transportation by private vehicles
  6. Lack of centralized planning or control of land uses
  7. Widespread strip commercial development
  8. Great fiscal disparities among localities
  9. Segregation of types of land use in different zones
  10. Lack of access to low-income housingĀ 

(Downs, 1999)