#urbansprawl

[easteringson]

Obligatory clouds and sunset post. #iphoneography #sunset #clouds #urbansprawl #albumcoverart (at Birmingham, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoVFu9MDBq4uERRqQ8sCwZi18wzKpo3bljWzQs0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[tmarshconnors]

Three Months to 32

In three months, I’ll be 32. It’s hard to believe. Three decades of watching this country transform, and not in ways that fill me with pride. Born in the early '90s, I grew up in a Britain that still felt connected to its roots. There were fewer people, fewer houses crammed into every square foot of available land, fewer cars choking the roads. The world didn’t feel so suffocated by tarmac and concrete back then.  

Now? It feels like we’ve traded something irreplaceable for convenience and consumption. Trees are chopped down to make way for cookie-cutter housing estates. Natural wetlands, once teeming with life, are drained and paved over to build car parks and office blocks. We’re manufacturing spaces for people to exist, but we’ve forgotten how to let them *live.*  

I’ve been watching this decline since the early 2000s, but it feels like it’s accelerated with each passing year. There’s an eerie sameness creeping across the country. Once-diverse landscapes are homogenised into sprawling suburbs and soulless developments. The unique charm of towns and villages is buried under identikit high streets, filled with the same chain stores and fast-food outlets.  

Where are the trees? The untouched fields? The rivers meandering through their ancient courses? They’re being replaced by roundabouts, dual carriageways, and miles of grey nothingness. And with them goes the soul of the land, the deep, unspoken connection to something older and wilder than ourselves.  

My heart breaks to see it. It breaks to know that what I loved about this country is vanishing, and that those who come after me will never experience it the way I did. They won’t remember what it felt like to walk through a forest untouched by urban sprawl or to stumble upon a quiet wetland brimming with life.  

I wonder: when did we decide that *more* was always better? More houses, more cars, more people, more *stuff.* It’s not better. It’s suffocating. The balance is gone, and I fear it won’t return.  

As I approach 32, I can’t help but feel a growing urgency. We have to stop this rot before it’s too late. We need to reclaim the wild spaces, preserve what remains, and plant new roots—not just trees, but values. Values that prioritise nature, history, and the things that truly nourish the human spirit.  

Because once it’s gone, it’s gone forever. And I, for one, refuse to let my heart break quietly.  

[ianfulgar]

Is the border between Manaus and the Amazon Rainforest a battle zone for progress vs. preservation?

[robertjtiess]

I invite you to read my poem "In Search of Cygnus"

Text link: https://allpoetry.com/poem/17268470-In-Search-of-Cygnus-by-Robert-J.-Tiess

[nx4]

またこの地域は戦国時代の古戦場としても知られ、地区には今でも、兵が敵の攻勢から身を潜めた「凌台（しのぎだい）」、捕虜の首を切ったという「首切り谷」、大将の首を埋めたという「かま塚」、敗走兵の死体で埋め尽くされたという「死人谷（しびとざく）」などなど、あまりにストレートすぎるためか地図上で示されることはないが、物騒な小字が各所に残されている。

八街市滝台　オフロードコースと化した分譲地 | URBANSPRAWL -限界ニュータウン探訪記-

[znoe]

Working on this piece….9 panels of the Westlake Daly city house. The mid century modern home is still an icon of high design and of affordable housing. Bring me the mod in the modular without looking like a shipping container. George Carlin once said “You know why the call it the American Dream? Because, you would have to be asleep to believe it”. … .. . . . #urbandevelopment #dalycity #spectacle&sprawl #americanbones #contemoraryart #affordablehousing #workerhousing #midcenturymodern #midcentury #midcenturyarchitecture #urbansprawl #urbanpatterns #hyperobject #archdigest #spectacle #contemporarypaintings #architecturelovers #architectandartist #imagetransfer #artrep #artconsultants #interiordesigner #designbuild #gridpainting #artcollector #artcurator #archi_focus_on #dalycity100 (at Daly City, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdw5my3ov44/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[talanaser]

U̶r̶b̶a̶n̶S̶p̶r̶a̶w̶l̶

An art piece made in paper collage to resemble the unconscious urban sprawl that is happening in the west bank in Palestine… if you like to see more follow my account @archkid03 on instagram🤍

[streets2020]

Urban sprawl • • • #urbanphotography #urbanización #construction #buildings #property #modernliving #urbansprawl #malagalife (at Málaga, Spain) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZu9CFHsai6/?utm_medium=tumblr

[infrakrasnyy]

Silverlake, Los Angeles

[postcards-from-the-future]

Limiting Factors meet Urban Sprawl

Blog Post #2 

Urban sprawl and unorganized city development have a very heavy and long-lasting effect on environmental limiting factors. The main limiting factors that are affected by unstructured urban growth are land and water. Human activity draws on the water supply and pollutes it with human waste and runoff. Land is not utilized in a manner that would offset any human activity, even by a low margin. 

Instead of planting an array of plants to nourish soil or trees to provide shade house are surrounded by lawns. These lawns require large amounts of water to keep them looking aesthetically pleasing. They serve no practical purpose, and often times require pesticides to prevent weeds. These chemicals seep into the ground as well as the local water supply via runoff, and essentially poison the surrounding landscape. 

Keystone species are driven out of areas due to habitat loss, and as a whole an area is stripped of its richness of plants, insects, and birds. From the start the carrying capacity of an area is overdrawn by scattered human presence. A herd, flock, or any other grouping of non-human tertiary life is removed and instead only small groups of previous inhabitants are chanced or sighted. 

Water usage in urban sprawl developments is very high and directly affects the main water source. The carrying capacity of the local water is exceeded as the need for residential and commercial demands tap in. 

The space of an area is a bottom-up limiting factor that is often taken for granted by humans. Innovation such as food shipping allows an artificial fix to the issue of exceeded local agricultural land use. Urban sprawl populations are grown without the need to think about allocating land use to feed a given population since food can be shipped in from all over the world.  This allows for an increasingly reckless manner of development and a detached view of the environment for citizens. 

[greenjaydeep]

#urbansprawl #urbanlandscape #blackandwhitephotography #vivara #redminote6prophotography #aerialphotography #skyline #skyscrapers #kolkataskyline #kolkatasutra #kolkatabuzz #ig_kolkata #calcutta_ig #calcuttacocktail #settlement #eastkolkata #cityofjoy #sokolkata #hellokolkata #onlykolkata #kolkatashoutout #kolkatastories (at Vivara by Mani Group) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKGUaFOl6uD/?igshid=18w0tzx71y1i1

[good-rituals]

[worldurbanplanning]

Location | Apple Park, Cupertino, CA, USA The corporate headquarters of Apple is named the Apple Park. It opened in 2017 and accommodates more than 12,000 employees within the 318,000 sqm office and laboratory space (80% of the campus is green space). However, it has more than 14,200 parking spaces covering an area of 325,000 sqm. Cupertino Parking Regulations required 11,000 parking spaces, while Apple provided more than 22% more parking than required. The development of the park has been heavily criticised for contributing to urban sprawl and car-dependency. Fortunately, Apple provides buses to the campus and offer bicycles to get around in the campus, and neighbours have seen an property value increase. #applepark #cupertino #california #usa #unitedstates #worldurbanplanning #urbanplanning #cityplanning #landscapearchitecture #ca #urbanpatterns #park #urbansprawl #cardependent #apple #residential #urbandesign #design #aerial #aerialview #circle #forest #도시 #도시계획 #fosterandpartners #arup (at Apple Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4skHZ3grhJ/?igshid=1aq8svjh5mu2u

[leformation]

Parasailing through cities across the globe. NYC, LA, Tokyo, Toronto. Tag to use images ™️™️ 🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🏳️🏳️ 🏳️ Follow, like, comment and love ➡️@le_formation 🏳️🏳️🏳️ 🏳️🏳️ 🏳️ #urbancities #urbanlights #parasailingadventure #helicopterphotography #newyorklosangeles #newyorktoronto #urbansprawl #tallbuildingseverywhere #pictureoftheday #tallbuildingoftheday #yeezyphotography #yeezies #yeezywhite #skylinephotography #skylinelighting #skylinelights #hangingcity #buildingphotography #newyorkcityphotography #losangelesphotography #torontophotography #tokyophotography #newyorkcitynights #newyorkcitylights #losangeleslights #torontolights #tokyocitylights #urbanphotography #cityphotography #leformation (at Times Square, New York City) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-zE0ZyA85B/?igshid=1viyg40mlslp

[nx4]

そこで今回僕は、この農地の分譲地の登記簿をすべて取得して現在の権利関係を確認したうえで、東京都内のA氏のご自宅を訪問し、改めてお話を伺うことにした。A氏は気さくな方で、突然訪問した僕を快く自宅内に迎え入れてくれたが、多古町の農地の話を出した途端、今なお怒りが収まらないらしく、農地で売却ができないのに数十年にわたって宅地として課税され続けてきたことの不当性を強く訴えていた。

呪いの投機型分譲地　－地目は農地、課税は宅地－　① | URBANSPRAWL -限界ニュータウン探訪記-

[manggakuaikan]

When you realise the Earth is so much more than simply your environment, you’ll be moved to protect her in the same way as you would yourself. This is the kind of awareness, the kind of awakening that we need, and the future of the planet depends on whether we’re able to cultivate this insight or not. The Earth and all species on Earth are in real danger. #saveearth #climatechange #oceanacidification #waterpollution #wastedisposal #covid19 #lossofbiodiversity #pollution #Deforestation #ozonelayerdepletion #natureresoursedepletion #acidrain #urbansprawl #geneticengginering #globalwarming #coronah https://www.instagram.com/p/B9ttQplAvX7/?igshid=mqolfja7xvw0