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Landscape Characterization / Urban Sprawl / Forms of Sprawl
Forms of Sprawl
Sprawl development consists of three basic
spatial forms:
Low-density sprawl
 Low-density
sprawl is the consumptive use of land for urban purposes along the margins
of existing metropolitan areas. This type of sprawl is supported by piecemeal
extensions of basic urban infrastructures such as water, sewer, power,
and roads.
Ribbon
 Ribbon
sprawl is development that follows major transportation corridors outward
from urban cores. Lands adjacent to corridors are developed, but those without
direct access remain in rural uses/covers. Over time these nearby “raw”
lands maybe be converted to urban uses as land values increase and infrastructure
is extended perpendicularly from the major roads and lines.
Leapfrog development
 Leapfrog
development is a discontinuous pattern of urbanization, with patches of
developed lands that are widely separated from each other and from the boundaries,
albeit blurred in cases, of recognized urbanized areas. This form of development
is the most costly with respect to providing urban services such as water
and sewerage.
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