The confusing outward proliferation of buildings of a city to rural
land is a phenomenon identified as “urban sprawl”. Outside the town
centre, territory meshes become increasingly wider and less regular,
entailing several inefficiencies, such as increase in travel time to move
from home to work (and vice versa) and car-dependence, due to the
growth of municipal extra mobility and, thus, increased road congestion
and its related issues (Camagni et al., 2002).