Suburbia killed the healthy community: the car related effects of urban sprawl are having a negative impact on public health.

While urban sprawl has allowed some people to have a better life style away from the cities , it has also made the car a dominant influence on public health. Communities have been developed around the use of vehicles as the main mode of transportation and which has caused numerous health problems and has made any benefits of urban sprawl worthless. Because communities are planned around the car, other modes of transportation have become useless as it is dangerous to attempt to walk or bike on roads without sidewalks to destinations which are miles away. The dependence on the car has lead to other health problems such as higher obesity rates, lung related health problems due to pollution such as asthma, and mental health problems such as stress, anxiety, and the feeling of isolation.