Glaeser, Edward L.; Kahn, Matthew E. - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 4, …, (pp. 2481-2527). 2004
dominant form of city living is based on the automobile and this form is sometimes called sprawl. In this essay, we document … that sprawl is ubiquitous and that it is continuing to expand. Using a variety of evidence, we argue that sprawl is not the … result of explicit government policies or bad urban planning, but rather the inexorable product of car-based living. Sprawl …