Los Angeles: A smart growth champion 

Urban sprawl devours more than 2.2 million acres of farmland, forests and wetlands each year. If it continues at this rate, by 2050 the United States will have paved over another 110 million acres of rural land.

Atlanta holds the dubious distinction of being the nation's largest "sprawler" after its metropolitan area swelled by more than 700 square miles between 1970 and 1990.

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