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- Urban sprawl and its possible impacts on the activities of Veolia Environnement
- The phenomenon of urban sprawl and city growth. Daphné BORET
- Urban sprawl and its possible impacts on the activities of Veolia Environnement
The phenomenon of urban sprawl and city growth. Daphné BORET
Étalement urbain (urban sprawl in the United States), is merely the current term, with negative connotations, like the accompanying tâche urbaine, for what was previously called urban expansion.
Urban sprawl exists in every country. It has numerous causes and people often mention both urban growth and construction in city outskirts in order to explain this phenomenon.
The terminology itself is diverse, underlining the complexity of the processes of peripheral growth in agglomerations, which makes it difficult to label this phenomenon precisely. Terms often used are periurbanisation (continuous urbanisation at the fringes of agglomerations), peripheral urbanisation, rurbanisation (process of rampant urbanisation in rural areas, interweaving of rural areas and peripheral urbanised zones, organised around cores of rural living without creating a new continuous area), suburbanisation (continuous development in outlying city areas), suburbia, commuter zones.
The classic forms of this type of urbanisation are detached houses and housing estates.