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Royce Hanson
Researcher at George Washington University
Publications - 16
Citations - 1634
Royce Hanson is an academic researcher from George Washington University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & Urban planning. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 16 publications receiving 1491 citations. Previous affiliations of Royce Hanson include University of Maryland, Baltimore County & University of Kentucky.
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Wrestling sprawl to the ground - Defining and measuring an elusive concept
George Galster,Royce Hanson,Michael R. Ratcliffe,Harold Wolman,Stephen Coleman,Jason Freihage +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a conceptual definition of sprawl based on eight distinct dimensions of land use patterns: density, continuity, concentration, clustering, centrality, nuclearity mixed uses, and proximity.
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The Fundamental Challenge in Measuring Sprawl: Which Land Should Be Considered?*
Harold Wolman,George Galster,Royce Hanson,Michael R. Ratcliffe,Kimberly Furdell,Andrea Sarzynski +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors formulate "extended urban areas" based on housing density and commuting patterns and argue that they represent a preferable geographic basis for measuring sprawl, and operationalize with satellite imagery a way for measuring land unavailable for development in these areas.
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Verifying the Multi-Dimensional Nature of Metropolitan Land Use: Advancing the Understanding and Measurement of Sprawl
TL;DR: In this paper, 12 conceptually distinct dimensions of land use patterns are operationalized for 50 large US metropolitan areas using a battery of indices, and common patterns of variation in these indices across metropolitan areas are discerned using correlation and factor analyses.
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Testing the conventional wisdom about land use and traffic congestion: the more we sprawl, the less we move?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored relationships between seven dimensions of land use in 1990 and subsequent levels of three traffic congestion outcomes in 2000 for a sample of 50 large US urban areas.
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Corporate citizenship and urban problem solving: the changing civic role of business leaders in american cities
TL;DR: In this article, corporate civic elite organizations and their role in social production and urban policy in the United States are discussed, and the authors suggest that the role of these elite organizations is not limited to social production, but also to economic development.