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Urban Sprawl:
Urban sprawl is the uncontrollable expanse of urban areas. It is when people move out of high density urban areas like cities and move to low density areas like the suburbs. This expanse started in the late 1920s/ early 1930s just as cars started to become available to regular families. Two of the main aspects of urban sprawl are its automobile dependent nature and its low-density housing that lets most families have their own land to live and work on.

Health Issues:
Urban sprawl has connections to several health issues including obesity and air pollution. Obesity and urban sprawl are linked because as things get more and more spread out the more people rely on cars and less on walking and biking which reduces the average amount of exercise people are getting. Air pollution is also linked to the increase use of automobiles but also to the destruction of the natural environment of the area that was developed for urban sprawl.

Solutions:
The solution to the urban sprawl problems needs to be taken in three steps. The first is to design a new system to build housing for people. Building it in a way that will make it less automobile dependent and more compacted than current urban area plans. Second would be to stop or stall a lot of the urban development and then replace their designed with the new ones. Lastly would be reworking current urban areas to be less automobile dependent.

Conclusion:
Urban sprawl is the uncontrollable expanse of urban areas. This expanse is automobile dependent which leads to several health issues. Those health issues being obesity and air pollution. The solution would take several steps including redesigning the current urban designs, stopping or stalling urban development that does not use the new design and then re working the already built areas to be less automobile dependent.