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Another interesting city growth phenomenon in the US is suburbanization. In countries such as China, the term ‘suburbs’ is not a familiar one. This may have to do with its relatively late urbanization in the late 1980s. In the US, when inner cities become too crowded, residents started migrating to the suburbs, which are communities that are adjacent to but outside of the city. This is also called urban sprawl or suburban sprawl, which describes how people move from central urban areas to low-density areas outside of the city. Suburban communities are mostly car-dependent. Some large cities are so ‘sprawled’ out that they are almost connected to other cities that used to seem further away. Below we can see a NASA photo that shows the metropolitan areas of the Northeast. This demonstrates the urban sprawl, with the lights illustrating cities and their sprawling suburbs.
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