Compact or spread? A quantitative spatial model of urban areas in Europe since 1990.

ABSTRACT: Changes in urban residential density represent an important issue in terms of land consumption, the conservation of ecosystems, air quality and related human health problems, as well as the consequential challenges for urban and regional planning. It is the decline of residential densities, in particular, that has often been used as the very definition of sprawl, describing a phenomenon that has been extensively studied in the United States and in Western Europe. Whilst these studies provide valuable insights into urbanization processes, only a handful of them have reflected the uneven dynamics of simultaneous urban growth and shrinkage, using residential density changes as a key indicator to uncover the underlying dynamics. This paper introduces a contrasting analysis of recent developmen

SUBMITTER: Wolff M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5830312 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature