Whether you call it sprawl, adjacent development or progress, suburban spread is on the agenda at every level of government. The simplest answer is that people want larger homes on bigger lots. Builders, real-estate agents and developers, in turn, have prospered for decades providing them. Naturally, there's more to it than that.
New homes Deciding where to live is a tangle of financial and social judgments.
And some factors are more important than others. Yes, a builder can erect a new house on a lot in a century-old city neighborhood, but that's an exceedingly uncommon choice. Building houses is cheaper by the subdivision on empty land, and city dwellers often look for other suburban amenities, too. Suburban schools . Schools lead that list of suburban attractions.