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Traffic, urban growth and suburban sprawl

open access: yes, 2003
Cities are still getting bigger in the western world. Even though urbanpopulations are barely reproducing themselves and migration from thecountryside to the town has slowed to a trickle, the demand for more livingspace shows no sign of abating as cities
Chin, N, Batty, M, Besussi, E
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Lesson Plan - Urban Sprawl

open access: yes, 2021
The purpose of this lesson is for students to explore urban sprawl. They will first analyze urban growth patterns at the national level and then compare the density changes associated with various urban areas in the United States.
Center for Urban Resilience
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Labour's Planning Reform: A View from London

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the English planning reform agenda of the Labour government elected in 2024. It frames London's outer boroughs as a critical lens through which to assess it. Drawing on the findings of the cross‐party Suburban Taskforce (2020–2022), the article has particular regard to the proposed reconfiguration of planning committees ...
Dimitrios Panayotopoulos‐Tsiros   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Farmland Allocation along the Rural-Urban Gradient: The Impacts of Urbanization and Urban Sprawl

open access: yes
In the vicinity of a city, farmers are confronted with increasing agricultural land prices and rents along the rural-urban gradient, but they concurrently enjoy the advantages associated with proximity to a larger and wealthier consumer base.
Florax, Raymond J.G.M.   +1 more
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Causes of sprawl: A portrait from space [PDF]

open access: yes
We study the extent to which US urban development is sprawling and consider what determines differences in sprawl across space. Using remote-sensing data to track the evolution of land use on a grid of 8.7 billion 30x30 metre cells, we measure sprawl as ...
Henry G. Overman   +3 more
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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

open access: yesInternational 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 URBANOLOGISTS COME TO TOWN: Professional Life and Work in the Urban Solutions Industry

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article charts the upsurge of an eclectic global community of professionals new to the field of urban policy and governance, animated by playful and celebratory attitudes towards cities and urbanization: the urbanologists. It contributes to debates in critical urban theory and critical ethnographies of technology to problematize ...
Rachel Bok
wiley   +1 more source

Urban Sprawl Control Efforts Based on Land Prices in Driyorejo District, Gresik Regency

open access: yesJurnal Perencanaan Wilayah dan Kota
The purpose of this study is to determine the level of urban sprawl development from 2016 to 2020, the influence of land prices on urban sprawl development and urban sprawl control efforts in Driyorejo District based on land prices.
Rahma Novi Chamima, Linda Dwi Rohmadiani
doaj   +1 more source

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