Chapter 1: Urban Sprawl - The problems dissected

Cultural:
-People spend a lot of time in their cars to commute and stay on cell phones, people to people interaction is lowered
-The majority of the population was brought up to believe that when they grow up, they need a big house, big cars and 2.5 kids

Political:
-The city and the government as well as organizations within the government dictates what gets built where (urban planning). Al thought the plans gets updated, they are still plans from 20 years ago and the "current" plan won't be adopted till much later.

Social:
-Urban sprawl divides the population based on income levels
it also eventual leads to ethnic segregation
-As the states becomes urbanized we have less and less farmers and farmland, as a nation we do not grow enough food to feed ourselves
-Lack of open space and public space for people to congregate and mingle

Education:
-isolation of students because of where they live

Financial:
-Land becoming more expensive as we have built to our city limits
-More and more people cannot afford to buy or even keep their homes
-Farmers have to sell their land to give way to big developers
-Food and other goods have to be imported
-Before the slow down of economy cities are already having trouble up keeping the infrastructure cost, with almost 60% of cities covered in roads and freeways it is now more difficult to maintain them
-taxing powergrid

Environmental:
-Most cities are covered in roads and freeways, they are important to gain access to other parts of cities
-Where people live, work and play are so far from each other, we become very dependent on automobiles
-Automobiles create pollution, that contributes to global warming and the depleting of ozone layers
-Dependency on automobiles causes depletion of natural fossil fuels
-Urbanized areas often has very open space and trees
-production of initial cost of clearing the land