Luca Salvati

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the variables shaping the urban-rural relationship in Spain over the last 20 years using a synthesizing methodology based on statistical and cartographic techniques that take into account a large number of variables and cases.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a quali-quantitative overview of peri-urban agriculture vis a vis urban expansion investigating the recent evolution of per-urban farms (1988-2010) in Toulouse, the fourth largest metropolitan region in France.

TL;DR: Analyzes LULCCs and the parallel increase in the level of land sensitivity to degradation along the coastal belt of Sardinia, a typical Mediterranean region where human pressure affects the landscape characteristics through fires, intensive agricultural practices, land abandonment, urban sprawl, and tourism concentration, to assess diachronically land degradation dynamics under changing land covers.

TL;DR: In this paper, a multidimensional analysis of an indicator of urban land use efficiency (per-capita built-up area, LUE) in mainland Attica, a Mediterranean urban region, along different expansion waves (1960-2010): compaction and densification in the 1960s, dispersed growth along the coasts and on Athens’ fringe in the 1970s, fringe consolidation in the 1980s, moderate re-polarization and discontinuous expansion in the 1990s and sprawl in remote areas in the 2000s.

TL;DR: In this article, a multi-criteria approach based on descriptive, correlation and multivariate statistics and mathematical morphology was proposed to investigate long-term morphological changes in a metropolitan region (Attica, Greece) representative of the Mediterranean compact city archetype.