urban sprawl

Converse of object

• prevent: Shadow planning minister John Hayes accused the Government of failing to prevent urban sprawl.
• stop: Instead we will safeguard and expand the green belt around towns and villages to stop urban sprawl.
• avoid: This approach needs to be worked out carefully to avoid urban sprawl.
• escape: MOUNTAIN BIKING Hundreds of miles of quiet country lanes, deep wooded valleys and challenging tracks and trails; escape the urban sprawl.
• encourage: To this snd, they built a massive railroad hotel, in order to encourage an urban sprawl around it.
• check: By acting to check urban sprawl, Green Belt protects the countryside and prevents neighboring built-up areas merging into one another.

Adjective modifier

• vast: Despite its imposing skyline, Frankfurt itself has not suffered from vast urban sprawl like other European cities.
• continuous: The siting of new built development in a concentrated form, around existing settlements, will avoid continuous urban sprawl along the roads.
• other: The Vineries in Gillingham, Kent, seems, at first glance, much like any other slightly shabby urban sprawl.