Contributor To Sprawl
Randall Road is often considered by many to be a poster-child for urban sprawl. due to its proximity to large single family and multifamily home developments, a multitude of big-box retailers and large industries, lack of walkability, limited public transportation options, traffic congestion, and so forth.
Randall Road was once considered to be the western frontier of the Chicago metropolitan area, but as the area grew, Illinois Route 47, several miles to the west, is considered to be the new western frontier.
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Famous quotes containing the word sprawl:
“The landscape of the northern Sprawl woke confused memories of childhood for Case, dead grass tufting the cracks in a canted slab of freeway concrete. The train began to decelerate ten kilometers from the airport. Case watched the sun rise on the landscape of childhood, on broken slag and the rusting shells of refineries.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)