I don't know that it's necessarily true that every city "sprawls". The term sprawl is not used in the same way as "spreads" or "extends". Sprawl tends to refer to spreading in an excessive or inelegant way. It's spillover that takes a different, more car oriented form from the original city that tends to use land inefficiently. It would be true to say "every city on the planet spreads or extends from historical centers to their current urban footprints" however.
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
Don't ask people not to debate a topic. Just stop making debatable assertions. Problem solved.
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