The Ultimate Urban Sprawl

From the standpoint of soil fertility, urban sprawl appears to have seriously compromised American agricultural efficiency. NASA researchers have discovered that U.S. cities have been built on the most fertile soil in the country.

Though cities account for just 3 percent of the U.S. land area, the land they occupy could produce as much as food as the 29 percent of land currently used to support agriculture.

Posted by Jim Langcuster at February 19, 2004 09:00 AM | TrackBack