We rail against urban sprawl, and rightly so.

我们反对扩张，点绝对正确。

It becomes a self-fulfilling recipe for urban sprawl: a highway gets built to connect suburbs to a city center, which encourages more development along it, which necessitates even more highways when those get congested — and on and on and on.

变成了一个自我实现的扩张配方：修建一条连接郊区中心的高速公路，了沿线的更多发展，当些公路变得拥挤时，就需要更多的高速公路——如此循环往复。

There, ten local governments have formed a combined entity covering the urban and suburban sprawl.

在此地，十个地方政府组成了一个覆盖与郊区开发地的联合机构。

This burrowing owl lives in one of the biggest high-tech urban sprawls of North America.

只穴鴞生活在北美最大的高科技现代都之一。

We're hearing of potentially 300 ISIS fighters still in the urban sprawl there.

我们听到大约300名ISIS组织的战士仍在里。

After the second world war, a population boom and the mass production of suburban tract houses created the urban sprawl that Los Angeles is infamous for.

第二次世界大战后，人口激增郊区房屋的大量生产造成了洛杉矶臭名昭著的扩张。

Well, by continuing to encourage this dependence on the motorcar, we simply create more congestion and more urban sprawl.

如果我们继续大家依赖汽车，只会导致更严重的交通拥堵扩张。

Urban sprawl is the way a city spreads into undeveloped land around it, often without planning permission.

扩张是指未经计划审批，向未开发的地区扩张。

She is the founder and president of the Megacities Project non-profit organization in Rio de Janeiroand knows a lot about urban sprawl in Brazilian cities.

她是里约热内卢非盈利组织大都项目的创始人董事长，她很了解巴西扩张的状况。

The urban sprawl of Los Angeles becomes visible some 100 kilometers away from the city itself.

洛杉矶的延伸地区在距离洛杉矶一百千米的地方就可以看到。

The perfect escape from the urban sprawl of Los Angeles.

逃离洛杉矶扩张的完美去处。

Blue onion dome, incongruous in this Texan urban sprawl.

蓝色洋葱头圆顶，在片德克萨斯州的扩张区显得格格不入。

Tampa is a city that's part beach paradise, part  urban sprawl, and entirely underrated.

坦帕是一座集海滩天堂与都扩张于一体、且被严重低估的。

Now, the main clause here is the increasing urban sprawl is a critical issue that city planners and authorities need to address.

现在，个句子的主句是：无序扩张是一个规划者管理部门需要解决的关键问题。

In cities with a lot of urban sprawl, people need cars, of course, to get from one place to another.

在蔓延严重的地区，人们当然需要汽车来往于不同地点之间。

But her book shines in its study of malls as symbols, and drivers, of American consumerism and urban sprawl.

但她的书在将购物中心作为美国消费主义扩张的象征驱动因素的研究中大放异彩。

One of the problems people associate with Houston is urban sprawl.

人们与休斯顿相关联的一个问题是蔓延。

I'm an actor, writer, woodworker living in the weirdest urban sprawl in America, in Los Angeles.

我是一名演员、作家，也是一名木匠，住在全美最古怪的扩张区——洛杉矶。

Most people think urban sprawl is a relatively new concept.

大多数人认为扩张是一个相对较新的概念。

However, public infrastructure did not keep pace with urban sprawl, causing massive congestion problems which now make commuting times far higher.

然而，交通的基础建设跟不上的扩张，导致大量的交通堵塞，大大延长了通勤的时间。