Evaluating urban environmental and ecological landscape characteristics as a function of land-sharing-sparing, urbanity and scale.

ABSTRACT: Within urban landscape planning, debate continues around the relative merits of land-sharing (sprawl) and land-sparing (compaction) scenarios. Using three of the ten districts in Greater Manchester (UK) as a case-study, we present a landscape approach to mapping green infrastructure and variation in social-ecological-environmental conditions as a function of land sharing and sparing. We do so for the landscape as a whole and in a more focussed approach for areas of high and low urbanity. Results imply potential trade-offs between land-sharing-sparing scenarios relevant to characteristics critical to urban resilience such as landscape connectivity and diversity, air quality, surface temperature, and access to green space. These trade-offs are complex due to the parallel influence of patch a

SUBMITTER: Dennis M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6657829 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature