You can call it suburban sprawl.

Suburban sprawl encourages people to drive many miles to work, school and stores.

So you have the sprawl of LA, the sprawl of Mexico City.

Shape Deposition Manufactured robot, named Sprawl.

Cars are indispensable to suburban life.

They have urban streetscapes, but suburban parking ratios.

The forested hills became a sprawling suburban community.

And this isn't some suburban iPhone using teen phenomenon.

No, forget about those suburban restaurants you've been testing.

We have policies that reward sprawl we have all kinds of policies.

This includes arson, urban sprawl, acid rain, not to mention terrorism and wars.

If we look at this carefully, we find it's about 40 percent of the Earth's land surface is devoted to agriculture, and it's 60 times larger than all the areas we complain about, our suburban sprawl and our cities where we mostly live.

Agriculture uses 60 times more land than urban and suburban areas combined.

You have these unbelievable new cities in China, which you might call tower sprawl.

On TV, they're saying that foxes and raccoons... have disappeared because of urban sprawl.

Here is another pretty typical scene. This is a suburban Las Vegas neighborhood.

I don't know why doctors sprawl in chicken scratch when it's so hard to read!

And we chose to try to reverse sprawl through three simple moves expensive, but simple.

There's also a burgeoning suburban farming movement sort of victory gardens meets the Internet.

It travels on rails down a suburban road, and the cars travel underneath it.

It inspired them to show off this design by producing a little robot they named Sprawl.

And then you finally get squatter homes like this, which is built on the suburban model.

Researchers at the CDC and other places have increasingly been linking suburban development patterns with sedentary lifestyles.

This is an ordinary suburban house, and this is the owner of the property, Mrs. E. Homstein.

I want you to join the protest and start demanding more sustainable suburban places more sustainable places, period.

And what we would see here as a suburban development a similar thing, but they're all high rises.

They were actually high school classmates together at the same high school in suburban Los Angles in the 1960s.

And up in the sun, you have a single layer of apartments that combine all the splendors of a suburban lifestyle,

But those sites have now been leapfrogged and leapfrogged again, as we've just continued to sprawl, and they now have a relatively central location.

I showed here two years ago a little bit about a design of your basic, uncompromised, quintupled efficiency suburban assault vehicle (Laughter)

I walked round the corner, saw the City and Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I had solved my problem.

And so what we've done and this isn't just in housing it's in clothing and food and our transportation needs, our energy we sprawl just a little bit.

There is Mortimer's, the tobacconist, the little newspaper shop, the Coburg branch of the City and Suburban Bank, the Vegetarian Restaurant, and McFarlane's carriage building depot.

Suburban expansion to cheap land, for the last 50 years you know the cheap land out on the edge has helped generations of families enjoy the American dream.

Installed into a protective wall surrounding the suburban home of Louis Novaes, who's the head of the Novaes family, are these turret holes, which were used for shooting and looking.

So Sudhir, the suburban boy who had never really been in the inner city, dutifully took his clipboard and walked down to this housing project, gets to the first building.

They're being put out about two hours the communities that have been around for literally hundreds of years, or maybe even thousands of years, are being broken up and spread across in the suburban areas outside of Shanghai.

And every stitch of the Vicar's clothes! 'Tend to him in a minute! he cried to Henfrey as he passed the prostrate Huxter, and, coming round the corner to join the tumult, was promptly knocked off his feet into an indecorous sprawl.

The fix, as it's called, may be much more difficult for the dominant society than, say, a 50 check or a church trip to paint some graffiti covered houses, or a suburban family donating a box of clothes they don't even want anymore.

In the last 100 years alone, our country and this is a sprawl map of America our country has systematically flattened and homogenized the landscape to the point where we've forgotten our relationship with the plants and animals that live alongside us and the dirt beneath our feet.

But when we move out to the suburbs, to this cellular condition, really, there's some interesting work that's being done in terms of dividing the house, an existing suburban house into, say 2 or 4 even, but that's still keeping things contained within that single dwelling.

Just from the perspective of climate change, the average urban dweller in the U.S. has about one third the carbon footprint of the average suburban dweller, mostly because suburbanites drive a lot more, and living in detached buildings, you have that much more exterior surface to leak energy out of.