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  • adjective Opposing or countering urban sprawl.

Etymologies

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anti- +‎ sprawl

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Examples

  • In fact, sprawl could be a thing of the past if we take preventative measures to encourage urban density, enact antisprawl regulations, and make it convenient to travel to outlying HSR stations with plenty of garage parking.

    Center for American Progress Action Fund Guest 2010

  • In fact, sprawl could be a thing of the past if we take preventative measures to encourage urban density, enact antisprawl regulations, and make it convenient to travel to outlying HSR stations with plenty of garage parking.

    Center for American Progress Action Fund Guest 2010

  • In fact, sprawl could be a thing of the past if we take preventative measures to encourage urban density, enact antisprawl regulations, and make it convenient to travel to outlying HSR stations with plenty of garage parking.

    Climate Progress Guest 2010

  • In fact, sprawl could be a thing of the past if we take preventative measures to encourage urban density, enact antisprawl regulations, and make it convenient to travel to outlying HSR stations with plenty of garage parking.

    Climate Progress Guest 2010

  • Today's antisprawl open-space-preservation movement may eventually contribute to Metropolis

    Chicago Reader 2009

  • A Houston woman from the Sierra Club’s antisprawl campaign lectured on the environmental and social evils caused by automobile-oriented development, which new roads would exacerbate.

    Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010

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