Urban Sprawl in Europe : Landscape, Land-Use Change and Policy Paperback / softback
Edited by Chris Couch, Gerhard Petschel-Held, Lila Leontidou
Part of the Real Estate Issues series
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Urban sprawl is one of the most important types of land-use changes currently affecting Europe.
It increasingly creates major impacts on the environment (via surface sealing, emissions by transport and ecosystem fragmentation); on the social structure of an area (by segregation, lifestyle changes and neglecting urban centres); and on the economy (via distributed production, land prices, and issues of scale). Urban Sprawl in Europe: landscapes, land-use change & policy explains the nature and dynamics of urban sprawl.
The book is written in three parts. Part I considers contemporary definitions, theories and trends in European urban sprawl.
In part II authors draw upon experiences from across Europe to consider urban sprawl from a number of perspectives: Infrastructure-related sprawl, such as can be seen around Athens;Sprawl in the post-socialist city, as typified by Warsaw, Leipzig and Ljubljana;Decline and sprawl, where a comparative analysis of Liverpool and Leipzig shows that sprawl is not confined to expanding cities;Sprawl based on the development of second homes as found in Sweden, Austria and elsewhere. In part III a formal qualitative model of sprawl is developed.
Policies for the control of urban sprawl and the roles of different stakeholders are considered.
Finally, a concluding chapter raises questions about the nature and dynamics of these new urban landscapes and their sustainability.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:30/10/2007
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- ISBN:9781405139175
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication Date:30/10/2007
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- ISBN:9781405139175