Re: sprawl: What is it?

What is wrong with that statement? One definition of the verb,
according to M-W, is "to spread or develop irregularly". IOW, "Sprawl"
the noun is defined by the action of "sprawling". Some places sprawl,
some places do not, due to a variety of factors. This is not an
advocacy discussion one way or another, just a search for meaning. I
remember many rural and medium-sized towns in my youth that did not
"sprawl". They were very stable population-wise and the transition
from small-town urban to rural was very stark and well-defined at the
city limits, not with an irregular, ill-defined tapering of development
as one moved away from the central core.

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