In northeast I would include everything from like DC north and I guess the Great Lakes. I wonder because in the country it’s most likely to be in the Southwest or something, but I wonder about up here…
It’s a tough question for a couple of reasons–
1) how to define & measure sprawl
2) how to draw boundaries around one city’s sprawl–in the Northeast, where one city’s sprawl spills into the next city’s. Technically, are we looking at MSAs or CMSAs?
Without being too long-winded, I would guess Hartford and WDC as the sprawlingest cities. The USA Today article below has a good comprehensive list with a relatively simple measure (they place Rochester, NY first in the region). The smartgrowthamerica article (PDF) has a more complex analysis.
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It’s a tough question for a couple of reasons–
1) how to define & measure sprawl
2) how to draw boundaries around one city’s sprawl–in the Northeast, where one city’s sprawl spills into the next city’s. Technically, are we looking at MSAs or CMSAs?
Without being too long-winded, I would guess Hartford and WDC as the sprawlingest cities. The USA Today article below has a good comprehensive list with a relatively simple measure (they place Rochester, NY first in the region). The smartgrowthamerica article (PDF) has a more complex analysis.
References :
http://www.usatoday.com/news/sprawl/full2.htm
http://www.smartgrowthamerica.org/sprawlindex/MeasuringSprawl.PDF