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Where does the land for the sprawl come from? You either have to destroy nature or farmland.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/america-land-use/ provides a nice visualization.
Only 2% of USA's landmass is used for our urban areas. There is plenty of "Open Space" (3%), "Shrubland" (24%), Grassland (17%) to utilize.