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Titolo |
Urban sprawl in Europe [[electronic resource] ] : landscapes, land-use change & policy / / edited by Chris Couch, Lila Leontidou and Gerhard Petschel-Held |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell, 2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-31901-5 |
9786611319014 |
0-470-69206-5 |
0-470-69134-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (296 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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CouchChris |
LeontidouLila |
Petschel-HeldGerhard |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Cities and towns - Europe - Growth |
Urbanization - Europe |
City planning - Europe |
Urban policy - Europe |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : definitions, theories and methods of comparative analysis / Chris Couch, Lila Leontidou, Karl-Olov Arnstberg -- Sprawl in European cities : the comparative background / Diana Reckien, Jay Karecha -- Infrastructure-related urban sprawl : mega-events and hybrid peri-urban landscapes in southern Europe / Lila Leontidou ... [et al.] -- Sprawl in the post-socialist city : the changing economic and institutional context of central and eastern European cities / Natalia Pichler-Milanovia, Malgorzata Gutry-Korycka, Dieter Rink -- Decline and sprawl : urban sprawl is not confined to expanding city regions / Henning Nuissl ... [et al.] -- No place like second home : weekends, holidays, retirement and urban sprawl / Karl-Olov Arnstberg, Inger Bergstrom -- Modelling urban sprawl : actors and mathematics / |
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Matthias Lüdeke, Diana Reckien, Gerhard Petschel-Held -- Lines of defence : policies for the control of urban sprawl / Henning Nuissl, Chris Couch -- Urban sprawl and hybrid cityscapes in Europe : comparisons, theory construction and conclusions / Lila Leontidou, Chris Couch. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 defi |
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