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Sprawl Leaves its Footprint in Water [PDF]

, 2001
The Environmental and Energy Study Institute held a Congressional briefing on water pollution resulting from increased motor vehicle traffic associated with urban sprawl. The briefing featured information from recent studies by the National Water Quality
Ron Grandon
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FINANCIALIZED GREEN STATE ENTREPRENEURIALISM AND THE URBANIZATION OF MOUNTAINS: Chongli’s Consumption‐based Territorial Business Model for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of a territorial business model (TBM) to renew the analysis of the production of the urban built environment beyond established urban cores. Based on the case of Chongli, a site for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, this article provides a double decentering of the ways in which a mountain region was urbanized
Thierry Theurillat, Mengke Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

The end of urban sprawl? Internal migration across the rural-urban continuum in Switzerland, 1966-2018. [PDF]

Popul Space Place, 2023
Lerch M.
europepmc   +1 more source

URBAN SPRAWL AND OBESITY [PDF]

In the U.S., urban sprawl and the rise in obesity rates have been two powerful trends during the latter half of the 20th century. Previous empirical work has found that obesity rates are influenced by labor market outcomes that are fundamentally shaped ...
Bernell, Stephanie L., Plantinga, Andrew J., Wu, JunJie   +2 more
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EXPERIENCING MORE‐THAN‐PANDEMIC WATERSCAPES: An Intra‐urban Comparison of Water Practices and Geographies in Nairobi

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract While many African cities, such as Nairobi, fared comparatively well during the pandemic years, urban residents still faced compounded uncertainties and an unequal distribution of burdens that were infrastructurally co‐mediated, for example, within and through place‐specific waterscapes and their socio‐technical infrastructures.
Moritz Kasper, Elizabeth Wamuchiru, Sophie Schramm   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatiotemporal Pattern of Urban Sprawl Based on the Weighted Urban Proliferation Model: A Case Study of the Bohai Rim Region in China

Land
Since the reform and opening up, China’s urbanization level has increased rapidly, with the urbanization rate rising from 17.92% in 1978 to 63.89% in 2020.
Yang Yang, Yang Liu, Huanbi Yue, Zhe Dong   +3 more
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Simulation on the Evolution Trend of the Urban Sprawl Spatial Pattern in the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River, China. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2022
Zhang Y, Guan D, He X, Yin B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Examining Factors Affecting Population Change in the Southern United States: An Ongoing Case Study [PDF]

Urban sprawl and rural rebound are major foci of recent regional economic studies. Using 1980 and 2000 Census data from 11 southern states, binary logit regressions of population changes in rural-and-metropolitan counties and Black Belt-and-non-Black ...
Banerjee, Swagata (Ban), Gyawali, Buddhi Raj, Hill, Anquinette   +2 more
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HOUSING QUESTION OLD AND NEW: Mapping Crowding, Tenure, Rents and Segregation in the Neighborhoods of Major European Cities around 1900 and Today

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In a context of unprecedented urbanization, nineteenth‐century European cities faced the ‘housing question’, i.e. precarious housing standards and affordability problems. While existing research has well described these historical housing problems in single‐city studies or in national urbanization histories, to our knowledge, there are hardly ...
Sebastian Kohl, Florian Müller, Ria Wilken   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Open Space and Urban Sprawl: The Effects of Zoning and Forest Conservation Regulations in Maryland [PDF]

Rapid urbanization enhances the desirability of policies for preserving open space but policies intended to preserve open space may extend the urban boundary and create leapfrog development.
Lichtenberg, Erik
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