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Geography, policy or market? New evidence on the measurement and causes of sprawl (and infill) in US metropolitan regions
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In this article, the authors proposed four metrics to measure sprawl in metropolitan regions as marginal changes in land use over time, and used regression analysis to explain variations in sprawl metrics across metropolitan areas, incorporating variables representing market, geographic and policy factors.Abstract:
This paper proposes four metrics to measure sprawl in metropolitan regions as marginal changes in land use over time. The metrics (change in urban housing unit density, marginal land consumption per new urban household, housing unit density in newly urbanized areas and percent of new housing units located in previously developed areas) are computed for all 329 metropolitan areas in the continental USA for 1980 and 2000. Regression analysis is used to explain variations in sprawl metrics across metropolitan areas, incorporating variables representing market, geographic and policy factors. Changes in development patterns reflect interactions of market and geographic structures. States with a substantial state role in planning accommodate a higher percentage of new housing units in previously developed areas and with lower marginal land consumption, suggesting that policy can mitigate sprawl development.read more
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Long-Term Urban Growth and Land Use Efficiency in Southern Europe: Implications for Sustainable Land Management
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.
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Do spatial patterns of urbanization and land consumption reflect different socioeconomic contexts in Europe
TL;DR: Investigating the socioeconomic background underlying land-use changes in metropolitan regions allows identification of place-specific factors improving the design of effective strategies containing land consumption in different European urban typologies, and contributes to find alternative policies for land- use efficiency and long-term environmental sustainability.
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Measuring the efficiency and driving factors of urban land use based on the DEA method and the PLS-SEM model—A case study of 35 large and medium-sized cities in China
TL;DR: Li et al. as discussed by the authors measured the efficiency of urban land use in different typical cities and estimate the effects of key driving factors using 35 large and medium-sized cities data during 2007-2015.
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Temporal–spatial characteristics of urban land use efficiency of China’s 35mega cities based on DEA: Decomposing technology and scale efficiency
TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors measured the comprehensive, pure technical, and scale efficiencies of urban land use of China's 35 mega cities from 2008 to 2015 and reveal their temporal and spatial characteristics of ULUE using a super efficiency slack-based measure (SBM) model.
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Wrestling sprawl to the ground - Defining and measuring an elusive concept
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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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