How Sprawl Has Changed Lifestyles

Sprawling suburbs have changed the lifestyle of Americans.

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September 14, 2004, 12:00 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"An aggressive push into outlying areas in recent decades spread the population farther out, gobbling up an extra 25 million acres nationwide - or a 47 percent increase - between 1982 and 1997 alone, the Brookings Institution, a Washington, D.C., think tank, found recently.

The population grew only 17 percent."

Thanks to Gabe

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