Previous studies are less clear discussing about the impact of urban sprawl on the lifestyle of the community. The objective of this study is to determine the differences in the lifestyle of the community in Johor Bahru City as a result of the urban sprawl. A total of 500 heads of households are involved in the survey with a 45-year-old minimum age group in the city. This study uses t-test analysis and the findings show that the overall lifestyle aspect of the community in Johor Bahru City shows a significant difference between the present and the previous as a result of the urban sprawl of all the lifestyle constructs and the overall lifestyle aspect itself.

The urban sprawl is the process of a city that evolves from a high density center to form a low density area towards its periphery based on its own phases involving the historical outbreak of a city. The shape, process and effect of a urban sprawl are different. Therefore, studies related to the urban sprawl need to be carried out for each different city, even in the same country. Experience in developed and developing countries suggests that any urban sprawl have a beneficial and bad effect on society and it also poses a problem to the city's management system. Hence, this article is intended to discuss the outcome of a review of a number of literature in relation to the urban sprawl overview globally, and in the context of Malaysia itself.