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Urban sprawl in Iranian cities and its differences with the western sprawl [PDF]
Spatium, 2012 Recently a number of studies have focused on urban sprawl in the Iranian cities and the negative impacts of such development pattern. Although in a general view the phrase “urban sprawl” is used for fast and sometimes uncontrolled urbanizations,
Ebrahimpour-Masoumi Houshmand
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Urban sprawl and childhood obesity. [PDF]
Obes Rev, 2021 SummaryUrban sprawl is thought to be a risk factor for childhood obesity primarily because the physical environment it creates discourages children's physical activity while encouraging their sedentary behavior. However, there has not been any review on the association between urban sprawl and childhood obesity.
Wu T +6 more
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Haze pollution and urban sprawl: An empirical analysis based on panel simultaneous equation model. [PDF]
PLoS ONEBased on the panel data of 227 prefecture-level and above cities in China from 2002 to 2018, a panel linkage equation model is constructed to explore the bidirectional influence relationship between haze pollution and urban sprawl, and the results of the
Luping Huo
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Urban Sprawl Negative Impact: Enkomi Return Phase [PDF]
Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs, 2019 Most of the cities around the world are dealing with different kinds of problems such as social, environmental, economic and others. However, for many years, urban planners have attempted to find solutions that fit within the context and have put them ...
KAMYAR FULADLU
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003 Cities can be thought of as the absence of physical space between people and firms. As such, they exist to eliminate transportation costs for goods, people and ideas and transportation technologies dictate urban form.
Edward L. Glaeser, Matthew E. Kahn
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Space-time correlations in urban sprawl. [PDF]
J R Soc Interface, 2014 Understanding demographic and migrational patterns constitutes a great challenge. Millions of individual decisions, motivated by economic, political, demographic, rational and/or emotional reasons underlie the high complexity of demographic dynamics.
Hernando A, Hernando R, Plastino A.
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URBAN SPRAWL SHAPE DESCRIPTION
Malaysian Journal of Computing, 2014 Urban sprawl is the out-of-control growth of urban area as a result of improper urbanization plan. Literatures have characterized various forms of urban sprawl that includes low-density and leapfrog sprawl.
N. Laila A. Ghani +2 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2021 Rapid urban sprawl in China has caused serious eco-environmental changes, and thus attracted significant attention of the international academic circles.
Danling Chen +4 more
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Land, 2023 In the context of rapid urbanization, inefficient, disorderly, and low-density urban sprawl often leads to resource waste and ecological damage. Over the decades, many studies on the measurement, analysis, and governance of urban sprawl have emerged ...
Yuneng Jiang, Yi Zhu, Yasi Tian
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URBAN SPRAWL AND MOBILITY [PDF]
WIT Transactions on The Built Environment, 2021 In the last century the territory and the layout of the cities have undergone important changes with an enlargement in the space of human settlements. It deserves attention in terms of the principles of sustainability, limitation of soil consumption, environmental impacts and social needs.
Galiano G., Forestieri G., Moretti L.
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