Land use efficiency of functional urban areas: Global pattern and evolution of development trajectories.

ABSTRACT: The application of last-generation spatial data modelling, integrating Earth Observation, population, economic and other spatially explicit data, enables insights into the sustainability of the global urbanisation processes with unprecedented detail, consistency, and international comparability. In this study, the land use efficiency indicator, as developed in the Sustainable Development Goals, is assessed globally for the first time at the level of Functional Urban Areas (FUAs). Each FUA includes the city and its commuting zone as inferred from statistical modelling of available spatial data. FUAs represent the economic area of influence of each urban centre. Hence, the analysis of land consumption within their boundary has significance in the fields of spatial planning and policy analyse

SUBMITTER: Schiavina M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9097785 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature