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Differences in mammal community response to highway construction across different levels of human land use

open access: yesWildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Worldwide, transportation agencies have been involved in road mitigation efforts to reduce road mortality and promote connectivity of endangered species. Baseline data on how mammals respond to highway construction, however, are rarely collected in road mitigation and monitoring studies, including in the USA.
Thomas J. Yamashita   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

URBAN SPRAWL SHAPE DESCRIPTION

open access: yesMalaysian 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
doaj   +1 more source

How to reverse urban sprawl: The smart blue-green city

open access: yesRozwój Regionalny i Polityka Regionalna
The phenomenon of urban sprawl is relatively widespread. At its root are a number of factors that have caused people to leave cities and settle relatively close to them.
Dorota Michalak, Paulina Szyja
doaj   +1 more source

Urban Sprawl in Europe

open access: yesRegional Statistics, 2012
The alienated atmosphere, the shallow relationships of the residential suburbs inhabited by the American middle classes and the spatial manifestations of the failure of the American dream and family model are spectacularly presented in Edward Albee’s dramas written in the 1960s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Everything in the Garden, or A Delicate ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Urban Development Policy and Urban Sprawl in Turkey

open access: yes, 2016
In the second half of twentieth century, metropolitan areas have undergone diverse structural changes with the increasing introduction of progressive technologies in transportation and communication. Urban sprawl has many effects on urban environment as unplanned expansion of the city, increased energy consumption, increased traffic congestion.
openaire   +1 more source

What is Urban Sprawl in Flanders?

open access: yes, 2018
At the country level, Belgium was found to be the European country with the highest degree of urban sprawl (EEA report on Urban sprawl in Europe, 2016). The phenomenon is most pronounced in Flanders, the highly populated northern part of the country.
Vermeiren, Karolien   +4 more
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