Burgspreawlian

Burgspreaƿlian (Niwenglisc: urban sprawl) eallsƿa cnāƿen as healfburgspreaƿlian, oððe burgsprædan, is þæt ƿyrðrǣdnes of burhlēodlicu ƿeorcs (sƿilce hūs, þicce manegumænscipe ærnunga, offis hūs and ċeapungtūna) on unlǣdan lond niƿe oððe þeahhƿega burhlēodlicra manignea byriġ." Burhsprēadnes is ġecƿeden as þæt unscir æmyrsnes on manig burhlēodlicu landū manonhūs, ċeapungƿyrċe, and strǣta ofer myċele landes, mid lytelum foreþanc on þicce burhlēodlic rǣdan. Ġeonniġe se burhlandes þe sindon cƿeden þæt hit is sƿīðe sprēadan sint þæt sƿiþe manegnum. In modernum tīdum sum þæs ūtangerehte landes þe syndon gecƿeden "sprēadnes" hæbbæð lytle unġecnaƿed hūslond and þicrēdan mannum þonne þæt nihtlǣs burh. Mediorċan burtūna forlēosan sċyldnes ðæs burhƿealles, ǣr ðæt intustrial ƿīgstōƿe becōmon. Modernum unnytendnes and cyrran hǣfð ymberīme of siþfēran tīde, ferendnes sċyldas, fulnes, and ofstreon þæs ceorlan londes. Þæt ġearnunge for timbran and gehealden burhlēodlicu ƿeorcs in þisse landes syndon ġefyllen for þearfa of property and ċeapung ġebelēodnes. Manig ƿeorc in þǣm Geanedan Ricu America, syndon nu onburhten in ūtangerehtum burtūnum ġeƿeorces myċel of þæs ġearnunge, þeah þe unġedāl groƿendnes ƿill þurfan hīehere ġebelēodnes rǣdan.