Christian Schwick

TL;DR: In this article, a set of 13 suitability criteria for urban sprawl measures are proposed, including intuitive interpretation, mathematical simplicity, modest data requirements, low sensitivity to very small patches of urban area, independence of the metric from the location of the pattern of urban patches within the reporting unit, continuous response to increasing distance between two urban patches when they move beyond the scale of analysis, mathematical homogeneity, and additive or area-proportionately additive measure.

TL;DR: Weighted urban proliferation (WUP) as discussed by the authors is based on the following definition of urban sprawl: the more area built over in a given landscape and the more dispersed this built-up area in the landscape (spatial configuration), and the higher the uptake of builtup area per inhabitant or job (lower utilization intensity in the built up area).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a European de-sprawling strategy, including the implementation of targets and limits, and a set of concrete measures to control urban sprawl and to use land in a more resource-efficient way.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce four new measures of urban sprawl: degree of urban dispersion (DIS), total sprawl (TS), urban permeation of the landscape (UP), and sprawl per capita (SPC).

TL;DR: The results show that the degree of landscape fragmentation as quantified by the effective mesh size method is strongly supported by the postulates and indicator selection criteria of Monet, and the most suitable FG focusing on the land area below 2,100 m is identified.