Findings show the least correlation between the two data sets in the less dense urban fringe areas.
This disparity between population growth and land consumption has made research on urban sprawl an issue of increased notoriety. The direct impacts on the physical, ecological, natural and cultural resources are compounded by the fiscal costs associated with building new infrastructure and public services in remote developments . In the case of the New York metropolitan region, the main sources of data have been USGS, RPA, the New York Public Library and the United States Census Bureau. Vogelmann et al. The other national data set commonly used to present snapshots of urbanization extent is population density or other indices of population growth and change.