ABSTRACT
Is a land use regulation stemming urban sprawl in an agrarian Pennsylvania County? Continuing as an introduction to data wrangling and spatial analysis in R, this chapter provides the economic motivation for limiting suburban sprawl and why ‘boundaries’ are an important conceptual tool a spatial analyst can use for understanding differences across space. Readers learn how to evaluate sprawl differences on either side of Lancaster's Urban Growth Boundary and then, in an assignment, are asked to turn to their own communities, to analyze differences across ‘soft boundaries’.
