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Your barren urban sprawl: Tolkien's modern Mordor in the making. (lemmy.world)

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[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is not true? Lots of urban areas can sprawl, not least because of car centric planning (big car parks between islands of actual land use; roads built to ease the traffic of roads; urban 'islands' of tall and dense occupation connected by road with slivers of green in-between that don't serve to actually offer a natural environment. Kuala Lumpur features all of these, for example) but also as economic centres decline and become disused and new developments in other areas spread.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 8 months ago

Especially they sprawl when the developers are allowed to do as they please. They want the most profitable option, which is barren and opposed to what people and local government usually want