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Showing 1 to 20 of 101 for “"urban sprawl"”.
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A GIS Assessment of Urban Sprawl in Richmond, Virginia
In the United States, the urban sprawl debate has closely paralleled urban growth trends over the past few decades. Many studies indicate that it is the pattern, density, and rate of new urban growth that create the appearance of sprawl. Population dynamics are often cited as a driving force behind …
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Urban sprawl: land-use, travel behaviours, and emissions in Ireland
… Ireland have historically been characterised by urban sprawl, a developmental form which creates spatially segregated human settlements characterised by car-centric transport networks. Evidence suggests that these patterns inefficiently (and therefore unsustainably) use natural resources, like …
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Growth equilibrium modeling of urban sprawl on agricultural lands in West Virginia
… with rural lifestyles. This study models urban sprawl on agricultural land in a growth equilibrium modeling approach where the population-employment simultaneous equations system is estimated using two-stages-least-squares while changes in agricultural land is estimated using OLS on West …
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New urbanism in US-amerikanischen Stadtregionen : ein effektives Planungskonzept gegen Urban Sprawl?
The research project examines Urban Sprawl in the United States and evaluates the alternative planning concept New Urbanism on a regional and local scale. The combination of qualitative and quantitative data sources explores the effectiveness of regional planning agencies on a macro level, as well …
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Importing growth management strategies to curb urban sprawl in the Pearl River Delta, China
… Pearl River Delta area of Guangdong province. Urban sprawl with uncoordinated land uses has sprouted around Guangzhou, as well as other smaller cities. This urban development has occurred mostly at the expense of agricultural lands in the Delta. Estimates have been made claiming that one third …
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A building system: an alternative to the urban sprawl in contemporary metropolitan San Juan
The intent of this thesis is to develop a concept for a structural and enclosure building system that will be applicable to the typical existing housing units in San Juan, P. R. The system will respond to criteria based on environmental, socio-cultural and architectural concerns.
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Knowing no boundaries : stemming the tide of urban sprawl in several southern Connecticut towns and the lessons for other strong home rule areas
… use controls in each town have contributed to urban sprawl in Southern Connecticut. Additionally, the historical foundations for the absence of strong regional governmental entities in southern Connecticut were studied to provide a baseline for developing potential regional solutions to …
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On the Evaluation of a State Power aimed at Preventing Urban Sprawl in Peri-Urban Areas of Chilean Cities. A Justification from Property Law
In recent years, Chilean cities have experienced urban sprawl driven mainly by numerous residential projects located in rural areas close to the urban limits. This paper aims to evaluate one of the state powers that Chilean law offers to address this phenomenon. Since the exercise of such power …
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Essays on Urban Economics
… the connection between the property tax and urban sprawl. While the tax's depressing effect on improvements reduces population density, spurring the spatial expansion of cities, a countervailing effect from lower dwelling sizes may dominate, raising densities and making cities smaller. The …
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An intracity library
… the back and side yards of low density urban and suburban areas, is sketched out as an alternative to urban sprawl. A small public library, which exemplifies some of the concerns of such development, is presented.
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Creating a platform for transit-oriented development (TOD) through integrated land use and transport planning in Cape Town: a study of Bellville station
As urbanisation trends continues and increases across the world, urban trends have seen urban growth take place horizontally, leading to undesired urban sprawl. With the global introduction of the automobile in the 1960's, urban sprawl has been exacerbated with the automobile allowing for the …
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Park and Ride Feasibility Analysis for the Evansville, Indiana, Metropolitan Area
… many communities faced with the challenges of suburban growth and city decay. How each community chooses to fight the problems created by urban sprawl depends greatly on individualized characteristics of the community. Analyzing and understanding unique values of each community provides a sound …
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Transit oriented development strategy : Guangzhou case study
… population and waste generation. Specifically, urban sprawl is a major source of energy inefficiency. Not only does it lead to more vehicle miles travels, more fuel consumption, more air pollution, but also to inefficiencies in infrastructure provision. De-densification of residential and …
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Fighting the sprawl: restructuring the seam between the rural and urban landscapes through consolidation, integration and intensifcation in Cape Town
… the landscapes of society, wilderness, rural and urban. This balance was disrupted through Modernism and Apartheid planning which lead to segregated, fragmented and low-density urban landscapes. Through outdated planning policies, engineering standards and speculative development models, this …
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Estudio del crecimiento urbano disperso en España mediante el uso de los sistemas de información geográfica: tres ensayos
El crecimiento disperso es uno de los fenómenos urbanos más estudiados. Tiene un gran impacto tanto en el medioambiente como en la sanidad pública, así como en su evolución futura. En esta Tesis, intentaremos demostrar las causas y consecuencias del crecimiento urbano disperso a través de tres …
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Vita Beata
… and outdoor spaces. Houses built under today's urban (or suburban) sprawl paradigm often create dysfunction and disharmony in these critical relationships and subtly alienate and harass people in their daily efforts to fulfill their most fundamental human desires. Several precedents from master …
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Development of the Northern Growth Corridor in Cape Town: towards a more sustainable city
The urban form of many South Africa cities is often considered unsustainable as it is based on the modernist and apartheid city models which have led to urban sprawl, fragmentation and the separation of land uses and activities within cities. These trends of development are exacerbated by the …
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Selling the Fringe: Financializing Strategies and the Collapse of Local Horticulture at the edge of Auckland, New Zealand
… at the northwest of Auckland’s rapidly expanding urban periphery as well as existing research on urbanization in California, USA, and Victoria, Australia to examine how the profit-making strategies of property developers and landowners drastically reshapes work and life at the edge of cities. Some …
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Sandhill crane colt survival and fledging success in northeastern Illinois: the role of age and significance of land cover in an urbanized landscape
… of Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis spp.) in urban landscapes has been largely unexplored by previous research. I evaluated survival and habitat use of young Greater Sandhill Cranes (G. c. tabida) in northeastern Illinois, where the Eastern Population of cranes and urban sprawl have …
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