Gary Oldman

It's a shame about California, and particularly about L.A., where they've demolished so many landmarks. It's a bit of a disease there, where if anything is over 30 years old, they sort of knock it down and replace it. It's a strange town, it's this sprawling suburb, and then there's a city, the old town.

English Actor

Steve Martin

L.A. is only where you live, because otherwise it's just a sprawling mass of everything, and I think if you live in L.A., you get a little network of places you go, and people you see, and when you leave town, you do miss those places and your friends.

American Comedian

Kenneth Grahame

Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.

Scottish Novelist

Eric Schlosser

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 did is study very carefully where sprawl was headed.

American Journalist

Greta Gerwig

I love big, sprawling movies where there are too many characters, and people get introduced halfway through, and you're like, 'Wait, who are these people?

American Actress

Charlotte Ritchie

It's always incredible though when you feel like the writer knows the character intimately and can see their life sprawling away outside of the show.

English Actress

Alan Rickman

You know, London is so sprawling, and you can sometimes forget that anybody else is on a stage anywhere else.

British Actor

Harry Seidler

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

Australian Architect

Cheo Hodari Coker

Clockers' - as much as it is a very focused crime drama, it sprawls.

Richard Lamm

Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop.

American Politician

Use 'sprawl' when describing someone lying or sitting in a relaxed and disorganized way.

Casual Posture

'Sprawl' can imply tiredness, suggesting the person can't hold themselves upright due to fatigue.

Physical Exhaustion

'Sprawl' conveys a sense of growth without order or planning, often negative in urban contexts.

Disorderly Expansion

Imagine the city as a creature with limbs stretching out to understand how 'sprawl' is used.

Visual Metaphor

In an urban planning context, 'sprawl' often implies harmful effects on communities and the environment.

Negative Implication

Use 'sprawl' to discuss modern problems such as traffic, pollution, and habitat loss due to city expansion.

Contemporary Issues

 than all the areas we complain about, our suburban sprawl and our cities where we mostly live. Half of humanity lives in cities today, but a 60-times-larger area is used to grow food. So this is an amazing kind of result, and it really shocked us when we looked at that. So we're using an enormous amount of land for agriculture,

Jonathan Foley: The...

 There will be more congestion. Because they're so appealing -- you can drive while reading or sleeping. Well, a couple of reasons. One is, if they're privately owned, people will travel greater distances. It'll be a new lease on life to sprawl. If you can work on your way to work, you can live in more remote locations.

7 principles for...

 they were also hit by the move to sprawl which is fundamentally reinventing our spaces around the car some of this reinvention was natural the average commute by car in this country is 24 minutes the average commute by public transit is 48 minutes but it was also helped by massive federal investment in

It’s time to embrace our...

 Changes in climate or fossils found in the rock record help distinguish these epochs and help geologists tell deep time. So what will be the record of modern people's impact on the planet? It doesn't rely on the things that may seem most obvious to us today, like sprawling cities.

How long will human...

 Sprawling cities or declining cities could see this as an opportunity to rebuild a social infrastructure rooted in justice and fairness. We could actually put money into public hospitals and help them prepare for what is to come through climate migration,

Climate change will...

 Logging operations which provide the world's wood and paper products also cut countless trees each year. Forests are also destroyed as a result of growing urban sprawl, as land is developed for dwellings. The effects of deforestation are grave,

Climate 101: Deforestatio...

 There are a lot of ways you can describe this. You know, I like to call it "the national automobile slum." You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.

James Kunstler: How bad...

 gives the plaza a theatrical quality. It becomes a stage where the generations can meet. You have teenagers sprawling on the pavers, seniors monopolizing the benches, and real life starts to look like an opera set.

Why glass towers are bad...

 fish lay eggs amidst their sprawling, complex root systems. Symbiotic sponges and sea squirts protect their host trees from hungry woodboring crustaceans. Crabs, snails, and shrimp eat algae, mussels, barnacles,

The sharks that hunt in...

 towering sea mounts attract fish in their millions deep ocean currents are forced to the surface bringing nutrients which feed the sprawling masses