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  • Sprawl is ‘more affordable’ because nearly all of the costs are ignored.

    Matthew Yglesias » Centrally Planned Suburbia 2010

  • "Sprawl is the disappearance of an idea," Stadler writes in the annotated reader, Where We Live Now, "So how can we go on speaking of the city and the country, yet not remain fixed in the downward spiral of loss?"

    Creep Suzette (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009

  • Sprawl is killing the sport. once the sport is dead, the 2nd admendment will get paved right over. especially with all these psychos opening fire in public.

    Duck, It's Hillary! 2008

  • "Sprawl is a response to racial fear and anxiety on the part of white elites"

    BROAD CAST 5 NOVEMBER 2007 -- AND MY BLOG IS HONORED Maggie Jochild 2007

  • A 2005 book with the catchy title Sprawl: A Compact History, by University of Illinois Professor Robert Bruegmann is one excellent antidote to decades of flawed opinions.

    The Chicago Blog: February 2007 Archives 2007

  • A 2005 book with the catchy title Sprawl: A Compact History, by University of Illinois Professor Robert Bruegmann is one excellent antidote to decades of flawed opinions.

    The Chicago Blog: Views of the suburbs 2007

  • Sprawl is the result of the marketplace; indeed, it is the result of the vast majority of the human population’s revealed preferences.

    Matthew Yglesias » Centrally Planned Suburbia 2010

  • The Sprawl was a long strange way home over the Pacific now, and he was no console man, no cyberspace cowboy.

    Wonder Woman and the Lasso of Truth Boudreau Freret 2010

  • The Sprawl was a long strange way home over the Pacific now, and he was no console man, no cyberspace cowboy.

    Neuromancer Gibson, William, 1948- 1984

  • Of course one last zombie stowed away on your escape pod, and now, in Dead Space 2, the infestation has spread to a human colony called the Sprawl, orbiting Saturn.

    NYT > Home Page By SETH SCHIESEL 2011

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