This article is part of a companion series to "Sprawl America, " a look at suburban growth airing nightly this week on CNN at 8 p.m.
Mr. Frampton sees faster-growing, prettier Christmas trees as critical to the state's agricultural economy, which is reeling from the decline of tobacco and from rapid suburban growth.
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Relieving traffic congestion reduces the appeal of public transit and fuels the growth of suburban sprawl.
Only downstate suburban districts are showing a growth in numbers.
Adam Hartung lives in Chicago and is a partner in Vector Growth Partners, a growth strategy consulting firm in suburban Washington, D.
The transaction "will give us the money to execute our plans to move into the suburban mall arena where we have experienced growth, " said Julian Geiger, president and CEO of Crumbs.
Yet in most demographically healthy urban regions, the growth continues to be primarily in the suburban centers.
"While there has been a lot of activity in older parts of the city, a large part of the growth has been from construction in more suburban parts of the city, " says Steven Lebofsky, an urban development specialist who works in Kansas City's Urban Planning Department.
True farmers markets, where small farms operators bring their crops to urban and suburban locations to sell directly to residents, have experienced dramatic growth over the past 15 years.
Even as the city itself has enjoyed strong job and population growth, the biggest increases have taken place in suburban outposts outside city limits, like Williamson, Bastrop and Hays counties, as well as parts of Travis, the county that is home to Austin.
Just one-third of those surveyed who live in the typical suburban setting said they would prefer to live in a "smart-growth" environment.
It is here that much of the economic growth of the Research Triangle has taken place, as companies concentrate in predominately suburban communities such as Cary.
The company's growth strategy is based on attracting the middle class with new shops in malls and suburban supermarkets.
The big growth in diversity around the Puget Sound is taking place not in the city of Seattle, but in suburban hubs like Bellevue (population: 122, 000).
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