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urban growth control  

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  • The term urban growth control is used to describe a broad set of growth management strategies intended to combat urban sprawl and its social and environmental consequences. For growth control advocates, it is generally the spatial expansion or “growth” of cities that necessitates “control,” not the size of its population. [Source: Encyclopedia of Environment and Society; Urban Growth Control]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/urban_growth_control

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