Study: Atlanta is nation's 4th most sprawling metro area

It's hard to believe there are three more sprawling cities (BTW: Riverside-San Bernadino, Greensboro-Winston Salem, Raleigh-Durham) than Atlanta. The suburbs reach almost to Alabama now, and I think it's worse than that on the other sides of town. (Birmingham is 23rd; here's the report.) Atlanta is unlike most of the rest of the top ten in that there's an identifiable major city at the heart, rather than several smaller ones.

Least sprawling: New York. Not particularly surprising considering that most of it's on islands and there's nowhere to park. OK, this is an anti-sprawl group's findings, but would you rather live in New York or Riverside?