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Determinants of urban sprawl in European cities. [PDF]
Urban Stud, 2015 This paper provides empirical evidence that helps to answer several key questions relating to the extent of urban sprawl in Europe. Building on the monocentric city model, this study uses existing data sources to derive a set of panel data for 282 ...
Oueslati W, Alvanides S, Garrod G.
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Land, 2021 Urban sprawl related to rapid urbanisation in developed and developing nations affects sustainable land use. In Sri Lanka, urban areas have mostly expanded in a rather spontaneous, unplanned manner (based on the current settlers’ subjective movement ...
Mathanraj Seevarethnam +3 more
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Effects of urban sprawl on obesity [PDF]
Journal of Health Economics, 2010 In this paper, we examine the effect of changes in population density-urban sprawl-between 1970 and 2000 on BMI and obesity of residents in metropolitan areas in the U.S. We address the possible endogeneity of population density by using a two-step instrumental variables approach.
Zhenxiang Zhao, Robert Kaestner
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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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Characterizing Sprawl Development in Urban China: A Perspective from Urban Amenity
Land, 2023 Urban sprawl in China presents unique characteristics that differ from those commonly studied in Western contexts, an aspect not fully explored in previous studies.
Dinglin Zhang, Yangyi Wu, Meitong Liu
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Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2004 The authors begin with an overview of the causes and consequences of urban sprawl in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on lower transportation costs and self-sorting of the population. By sprawl, we will mean the tendency toward lower city densities as city footprints expand.
Thomas J. Nechyba, Randall P. Walsh
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Perkembangan Urban Sprawl Kota Semarang pada Wilayah Kabupaten Demak Tahun 2001-2012
Jurnal Wilayah dan Lingkungan, 2014 Limited land resulted city expansion towards the periphery by urbanization. Sub-urban area is still depends on the city core, which is known as urban sprawl (Soetomo, 2009).
Reni Mujiandari
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Exploring the relationship between urban sprawl and the urban system. Evidence from Thessaloniki, 1991-2011. [PDF]
Spatium, 2017 The article explores the relationship between urban sprawl and the urban system. Urban sprawl is not considered to be a static, unsustainable urban form, but rather a dynamic process of urban deconcentration through which the urban structure ...
Gemenetzi Georgia
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Determination of Urban Sprawl Effects on Farmlands Value Using GIS
Iconarp International Journal of Architecture and Planning, 2019 This paper presents to determine urban sprawl boundaries and the factors of affecting farmland value in urban sprawl. Urban sprawl index is calculated to identify its boundaries and Analytic Hierarchic Process Method is used for determined to weight for ...
Zuhal Karakayacı, Özer Karakayacı
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Quantifying Urban Sprawl and Its Driving Forces in China
Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society, 2019 Against the background that urbanization has proceeded quickly in China over the last two decades, a limited number of empirical researches have been performed for analyzing the measurement and driving forces of urban sprawl at the national and regional ...
Jintao Wang +3 more
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