For the metropolitan region stretching from Boston to Atlanta in William Gibson's fiction, see The Sprawl.
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Urban sprawl is a term for the expansive, rapid, and sometimes reckless, growth of a greater metropolitan area, traditionally suburbs (or exurbs) over a large area.
Sprawl consumes much more land than traditional urban developments because new developments are of low density.
In addition, urban sprawl often consumes land that would otherwise be used for "natural" purposes, such as wildlife reserves, forests, agriculture and recreation.
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