European urbansprawl : sustainability, cultures of (anti)urbanism and hybrid cityscapes
Europe ; Sustainable development ; Urban geography ; Urbansprawl
This paper has its origins in a comparative research project examining aspects of urbansprawl in Europe undertaken within the 5.FP EU. The project UrbanSprawl : European Patterns, Environmental Degradation and Sustainable Development (URBS PANDENS
EVK4-CT- 2001-00052) sought to understand recent trends in urbansprawl in a number of case study urban regions and to advise the European Commission on policy development with regard to the control, management and amélioration of the effects of urban
An examination of the economic growth in Antigua in the last decade, showing the extent of urbansprawl (or rururban sprawl) in Antigua. No close monitoring of changing land-use patterns exists and organization for the planning and zoning of land
Image analysis ; Land use ; Small town ; United States of America ; Urban development ; Urbansprawl ; Urbanization ; Wisconsin
A. begins be discussing the perceptions of urbansprawl and notes that it is also a problem for small cities (50,000 population and less). Then she reviews the definitions of sprawl, quantitative measures, and qualitative descriptors. She then uses
three satellite images (1984, 1992, 2001) to assess the sprawl in the La Crosse, Wisconsin metro area. Whereas the image reveal a 205% increase in urban land over the study period, US Census Bureau data indicates a 18% population increase. She concludes
Characterising urbansprawl on a local scale with accessibility measures
Accessibility ; Indicator ; Land use ; Measurement ; South Korea ; Urban function ; Urban geography ; Urban morphology ; Urbansprawl
The study aims to develop and operationalise accessibility-based sprawl indicators. It employs two accessibility-based indicator categories and develops their measures : accessibilities to urban functions and open spaces. The index shaws a clear
difference from the morphology-based ones, suggesting that the judgement on sprawl may be wrong if it is purely based on morphology.
Contested Landscapes of UrbanSprawl: Landscape Protection and Regional Planning in Scania, Sweden, 1932–1947
Conflict ; Landscape ; Periurban development ; Regional planning authority ; Scania ; Sweden ; Twentieth Century ; Urban planning ; Urbansprawl ; Urbanization ; environmental planning ; peri-urban development ; planning history ; urban fringe
Studies in landscape and planning history are used here in order to critically examine the debate on urbansprawl and to reveal embedded conflicts within spatial planning aiming to curb sprawl. The paper aims to illustrate this with an examination
of one of the earliest attempts to control peri-urban development at a regional level in Sweden. The discourse on sprawl is first introduced and the fruitfulness of landscape studies in capturing inherent and conflicting aims within planning is examined
for the development of the plan, as well as the contradictory treatment of urbansprawl (on a local and regional level), is demonstrated. The final part discusses the importance of this historiography for the ability to deal with the current planning situation
. The conclusion is that urbansprawl is not necessarily the result of weak or absent planning, but rather of embedded contradictions within planning; therefore stronger planning will never be sufficient as long as the inherent conflicts within the plans
Measuring urbansprawl in Beijing with geo-spatial indices
Beijing ; Cartography ; China ; Geographical information system ; Index ; Spatial analysis ; Urbansprawl ; Urbanization
, etc. Various GIS spatial analysis methods are used to spatialize these indices into 100m x 100m cells. Besides, an integrated urbansprawl index is calculated by weight sum of these 13 indices. Four sprawling patterns are identified : randomly
expansion at urban fringe, strip development along or between highways, scattered development of industrial land, leapfrog development of urban residence and industrial area.
Policies to control urbansprawl : planning regulations or changes in the rules of the game ?
Israel ; Land ; Land use ; Local finance ; Local government ; Local taxation ; Urban development ; Urban fringe ; Urban planning
The paper emphasizes two mechanisms that determine the rules of game of local development and public regulation of urbansprawl : local government finance and the transfer of land from rural to urban local authorities. Sharing local taxes paid
Human sprawl and the African wilderness of Okavango
Attempts to modify human sprawl near the Okavango wilderness area, currently in an initial phase needs to address the underlying forces of population growth, rural income opportunities, urban employment opportunities and environmentally
Do high technology agglomerations encourage urbansprawl ?
Agglomeration ; Chicago ; Consumption of space ; Economic development ; Employment ; High-tech industry ; Illinois ; Impact ; Scenario ; United States of America ; Urban area ; Urbansprawl
Some environmental issues related to sub-urbanization process in Bucharest Metropolitan Area
Bucharest ; Landscape ; Metropolitan area ; Romania ; Suburbanization ; Urban dynamics ; Urban landscape ; Urbansprawl ; Years 1990-99 ; Years 2000-2009
The paper analyzes the effect of urbansprawl within Bucharest Metropolitan Area as well as the most important environmental issues related to sub-urbanization process (land fragmentation, land market dynamics, uncontrolled waste deposits, water
Dallas ; Suburbanization ; Texas ; United States of America ; Urban development ; Urban history ; Urban morphology ; Urbansprawl ; Urbanism
Since its founding, Dallas has grown centrifugally. Since the 1990s, however, it has also grown centripetally, with developers building walkable, mixed-use islands in the midst of metropolitan sprawl. This article surveys what amounts to a historic
Geography, policy or market? New evidence on the measurement and causes of sprawl (and infill) in US metropolitan regions
City-region ; Land use ; Role of the State ; United States of America ; Urban development ; Urbansprawl ; Urbanization
This paper proposes to measure sprawl in metropolitan regions as marginal changes in land use over time though the following metrics : change in urban housing unit density, marginal land consumption per new urban household, housing unit density
in newly urbanized areas and percent of newhousing units located in previously developed areas) are computed for all metropolitan areas in the continental USA for 1980 and 2000. Changes in development patterns reflect interactions of market and geographic
structures. States with a substantial state role in planning accommodate a higher percentage of new housing units in previously developed areas and with lower marginal land consumption, suggesting that policy can mitigate sprawl development.
[b1] Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Etats-Unis
Typologies of sprawl : investigating United States metropolitan land use patterns
Cluster analysis ; Economic activity ; Land use ; Typology ; United States of America ; Urban development ; Urbansprawl ; Urbanization
This article investigates patterns of residential and nonresidential land use in an array of extended urban areas, in the United States, using four measures: intensity, compactness, mixing, and core-dominance. Bivariate statistics demonstrates
[b2] Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Wayne State Univ., Detroit, Etats-Unis