Suburban sprawl can be ugly on the ground, but aerial photographs demonstrate its beauty, and why it’s inherently unsustainable. The series of photographs aims to “make sprawl a very aesthetic ...

About 11,100 acres would no longer be developable under the new Urban Limit Line boundaries proposed under Measure A, but ...

Suburban sprawl is like pornography: we know it when we see it, and it’s everywhere. There’s no single definition, or more accurately, there are many. Perusing the quite thorough Wikipedia page for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The scene in the Los Angeles area over the last week has become heartbreakingly familiar — people on the run and watching ...

Suburban sprawl often comes under criticism for a variety of aesthetic, environmental, and social reasons, but one criticism rules them all, Aaron Renn writes. They aren’t financially sustainable: new ...

Even as the city and state governments confront diminishing revenues and budget shortfalls, development pressures and real estate prices are climbing throughout much of the city's suburban rings. This ...

Some metro areas are tightly packed, like San Francisco, with Victorian homes sandwiched together in old neighborhoods and small houses stacked next to each other on suburban hillsides. Others, like ...