In what's considered the longest city in the world, there's no clear sign of how the sprawl will stop
In what's considered the longest city in the world, there's no clear sign of how the sprawl will stop
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How did Perth become the longest city in the world, and can sprawl be stopped?
The Perth-Peel metropolitan area now stretches 150 kilometres from end-to-end. When will it stop?
@ajsadauskas@lemmy.ml Perth's north-south suburban sprawl is now among the worst in the world:
"Stretching 150km along the coast from Two Rocks in the north to Mandurah in the south, the Perth-Peel metropolitan area's length is starkly visible from space.
"Many consider it to be the longest city in the world — although it is not an exact science, and Sochi in Russia also has a claim."
What's to blame for all the sprawl? Yep, it's cars and freeways.
"What turbo-charged the sprawl was population and the creation of the Narrows Bridge interchange, which provided a link across the Swan River and paved the way for the development of the Kwinana and Mitchell Freeways along the coast."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-28/perth-grapples-with-sprawl-longest-city-in-world/102151954
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