I've never really liked L.A., because of its sprawl.

We have to learn how to contact one another over an enormous land space, across five-and-a-half time zones, in what as once a wilderness…

— B. W. Powe

I think that part of the growing popularity of the New Urbanism is not simply because it is so rational, and not simply because…

— Jane Jacobs

The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.

— Robert Smithson

McDonald's has been extraordinary at site selection; it was a pioneer in studying the best places for retail locations. One of the things it…

— Eric Schlosser

There are scores of books offering 'solutions' to sprawl. Their authors would do well to read this book.

— Witold Rybczynski

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the…

— Neil Gaiman

“Suburban sprawl has heavily damaged the balance of our cities, divorcing environmental context from design and removing the concept of scale from the creation…

— Avi Friedman

Los Angeles is a sprawl of broken dreams and lost opportunities, disconnected souls and entertainment junkies. The sunny skies and graceful palms don't redeem…

— Carolyn Hart

The disadvantages of a decentralized, spread out urban area are tremendous, and the environmental damage of urban sprawl cannot be ignored. As a large…

— Minoru Mori

I think ultimately, bringing more nature back into the city is a way to deal with urban sprawl and things like that. If the…

— Stone Gossard

Suburban sprawl leads to social atomisation and fragmentation and is environmentally disastrous, as carbon-intensive car journeys displace local shops and replace public transport.

— Richard Rogers

Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop. I believe that what we're developing in Denver is in no appreciable way different than what…

— Richard Lamm

Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop.

— Richard Lamm

“It's in the nature of the landscape to change, and it's in the nature of people to help the process along...”

— John Darnielle

Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.

— Harry Seidler