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Understanding Rural Sprawl: A Look at Osceola County, Michigan

, 2010
The term “sprawl” has been a part of the land use lexicon since the mid-1940s. While it has traditionally been prefixed by the word “urban,” rural sprawl has entered land use vocabulary since the 1970s.
Engle, Nate
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Knocking Off the Street: The Subversive Writings of Hong Kong's Grassroots Kings

City &Society, Volume 38, Issue 2, August 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how two grassroots street artists in Hong Kong, the King of Kowloon (Tsang Tsou‐choi) and the Plumber King (Yim Chiu‐tong), intervene in the city's everyday visual order. Moving beyond celebratory collective memory narratives and easy analogies to graffiti, it frames their works as subversive urban practices that rework ...
Shizheng Liang, Zihong Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of urban sprawl due to migration on spatiotemporal land use-land cover change: a case study of Bartın in Türkiye. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Şen G.
europepmc   +1 more source

Health Preferences and Sorting in the City

Health Economics, Volume 35, Issue 7, Page 1033-1055, July 2026.
ABSTRACT There are large health inequalities between neighborhoods in many cities of the world. This paper studies individuals' sorting based on health amenities and exposes an important connection between health preferences and the housing market. I estimate a neighborhood choice model using geolocated data from a health survey in New York City and ...
Manuela Puente‐Beccar
wiley   +1 more source

Global urban sprawl

, 2015
La dispersión gradual de la urbanización, el fenómeno conocido bajo el término urban sprawl, se ha convertido en uno de los paradigmas que han caracterizado el desarrollo urbano desde la segunda mitad del siglo XX y principios del siglo XXI. Desde 1950 se ha producido un cambio real en la topología del paisaje.
Arellano Ramos, Blanca, Roca Cladera, Josep   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

Are we growing smart?: new vision for urban development in Asia and the Pacific [PDF]

The present paper explores the implications of smart growth principles for Asia-Pacific urbanization, and discusses how to use such principles for development in this region over the coming decades.
Hyunsun Choi
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Countdown: Timespaces of Deadlines and Displacement

Population, Space and Place, Volume 32, Issue 5, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how politically structured deadlines and their accompanying countdowns generate dynamics of displacement by shaping anticipations of violence and prompting accelerated migration. Drawing on ethnographic research on Burundi's 2015 third‐term crisis and The Gambia's 2017 electoral impasse, we show how constitutional ...
Tone Sommerfelt, Simon Turner
wiley   +1 more source

Characterising landcover changes and urban sprawl using geospatial techniques and landscape metrics in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (1984-2022). [PDF]

Heliyon
Sithole SM, Musakwa W, Magidi J, Kibangou AY.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Urban Sprawl and Health Outcome Associations in Sicily. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2019
Restivo V, Cernigliaro A, Casuccio A.
europepmc   +1 more source