The challenges posed by the growing urban sprawl in America

Write an word essay on “The challenges posed by the growing urban sprawl in America”. You should consider the challenges sprawl places on the different spatial issues such as suburban infrastructure, environmental costs, housing costs, social costs, economic structure, and mobility patterns. The essay does not have a formal rubric for evaluating the essay – this provides you with greater flexibility for innovative thinking and writing. I do, however, employ a checklist to evaluate the assignment – i.e., a simple list of assessment criteria or components that should be present in student’s essay. Understandably the way students articulate and associate these components is also taken into consideration when evaluating the essay. In other words, is the argument presented in a rational and organized fashion or are the components just presented in a random form without a reasoned and coherent argument framing them? The checklist for the essay “The challenges posed by the growing urban sprawl in America” is as follows: Concept of urban sprawl (what it is and what are the underlying dynamics); Challenges posed by urban sprawl (I do not expect that you cover all of them) – social costs; economic costs; housing costs; infrastructure; environmental issues; lifestyle; mobility patterns; other challenges; Potential mitigating measures; Articulation of Argument (i.e., rational, organized, clear); Use the following complementary sources to help you write your essay: The Smart Growth America report titled Measuring Sprawl 2014. The Council of New Urbanism’s Sprawl Retrofit Initiative. This site provides multiple sources of information in several different formats (e.g., the White Paper Unbearable Cost of Sprawl and the video of Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting suburbia).