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How would you stop or slow down urban sprawl in a rapidly growing city? What would be some of the challenges?
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This solution provides some strategies for preventing urban sprawl in a rapidly growing city and highlights some of the challenges that would be faced in implementing such strategies. It provides one references source for further investigation of the topic.
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Define Urban Sprawl
"Sprawl is the spreading out of a city and its suburbs over more and more rural land at the periphery of an urban area. This involves the conversion of open space (rural land) into built-up, developed land over time." (From ref 1 below)
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Rules --> Legislation--> Taxation/Regulation and enforcement resources to implement.
- Zoning laws, increased red tape for new developments.
- Increasing the price of the land to both developers and to the end consumers by efficient city planning ...
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