Connecting existing cemeteries saving good soils (for livings) [PDF]
, 2020 Background: Urban sprawl consumes and degrades productive soils worldwide. Fast and safe decomposition of corpses requires high-quality functional soils, and land use which competes with both agriculture and buildings.
Pantani O.-L., Scalenghe R.
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Prostor, 2017 Over the recent decades, the concept of functional urban areas [FUAs] has been relatively independently established in many countries around the world. The paper first addresses the FUA concepts and their application.
Samo Drobne, Alma Zavodnik Lamovšek
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Combining the conservation of biodiversity with the provision of ecosystem services in urban green infrastructure planning. Critical features arising from a case study in the metropolitan area of Rome [PDF]
, 2016 A large number of green infrastructure (GI) projects have recently been proposed, planned and implemented in European cities following the adoption of the GI strategy by the EU Commission in 2013.
Anzellotti, I. +3 more
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Characteristics of Residential Areas in Krakow Functional Urban Area
Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning, 2021 Urban sprawl is an unfavourable phenomenon not only in economic terms, but also due to the social and spatial effects. The failure to implement a coherent spatial policy in suburban areas may result in a chaotic distribution of residential buildings and cause spatial disorder.
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Exploring the functional area approach in EU urban strategies
Transactions of the Association of European Schools of Planning, 2020 A vast literature has investigated processes of spatial reconfiguration, contributing to the emergence of a ‘new urban question’ that not only reframes traditional urban issues but also challenges our understanding of what cities are today. Be that as it
Carlotta Fioretti, Martina Pertoldi
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The inhabited environment, infrastructure development and advanced urbanization in China's Yangtze River Delta Region [PDF]
, 2016 This paper analyzes the relationship among the inhabited environment, infrastructure development and environmental impacts in China's heavily urbanized Yangtze River Delta region.
Chen, W +6 more
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Functional Urban Areas as the Focus of Development Policy in Poland
Rozwój Regionalny i Polityka Regionalna, 2015 This article presents the premises, current status and the prospects of using functional urban areas as the focus of Poland's development policy. For the past 10 years, cities, especially large ones, have been increasingly impacting on their surrounding ...
Tomasz Kaczmarek
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Comparing and modeling land use organization in cities [PDF]
, 2015 The advent of geolocated ICT technologies opens the possibility of exploring how people use space in cities, bringing an important new tool for urban scientists and planners, especially for regions where data is scarce or not available.
Barthelemy, Marc +8 more
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Impacts of Urban Areas and Their Characteristics on Avian Functional Diversity [PDF]
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2017 Urban development is rapidly expanding across the globe and is a major driver of environmental change. Despite considerable improvements in our understanding of how species richness responds to urbanization, there is still insufficient knowledge of how other measures of assemblage composition and structure respond to urban development.
Emily Oliveira Hagen +7 more
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The influence of the revitalization of former industrial urban areas on new urban and tourism spaces: case studies of Manchester and Lyon [PDF]
, 2012 The purpose of this article is the identification of changes to urban and tourism space due to the revitalization of the industrial wastelands in selected cities of Western Europe.
Kazimierczak, Jarosław
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