We rail against urban sprawl, and rightly so.

我们反对城市扩张，这点绝对正确。

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.

这变成了一自我实现城市扩张配方：修建一条连接郊区和市中心高速公路，这鼓励了沿线更多发展，当这些公路变得拥挤时，就需要更多高速公路——如此循环往复。

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

在此地，十地方政府组成了一城市与郊区开发地联合机构。

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

这只穴鴞生活在北美最高科技现代都市之一。

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

我们听到约300名ISIS组织战士仍在城市里。

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.

第二次世界战后，人口激增和郊区房屋生产造成了洛杉矶臭名昭著城市扩张。

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

如果我们继续鼓励家依赖汽车，只会导致更严重交通拥堵和城市扩张。

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

城市扩张是指未经计划审批，城市向未开发地区扩张。

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都市项目创始人和董事长，她很了解巴西城市扩张状况。

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

洛杉矶延伸地区在距离洛杉矶一百千米地方就可以看到。

The perfect escape from the urban sprawl of Los Angeles.

逃离洛杉矶城市扩张完美去处。

Blue onion dome, incongruous in this Texan urban sprawl.

蓝色洋葱头圆顶，在这片德克萨斯州城市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市扩张于一体、且被严重低估城市。

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

现在，这句子主句是：城市无序扩张是一城市规划者和管理部门需要解决关键问题。

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

在城市蔓延严重地区，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.

但她书在将购物中心作为美国消费主义和城市扩张象征和驱动因素研究中放异彩。

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

人们与休斯顿市相关联一问题是城市蔓延。

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，住在全美最古怪城市扩张区——洛杉矶。

Most people think urban sprawl is a relatively new concept.

多数人认为城市扩张是一相对较新概念。

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

然而，城市交通基础建设跟不上城市扩张，导致交通堵塞，延长了通勤时间。