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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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Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; Malden, MA, : Blackwell, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
Disciplina: | 307.1416094 |
307.76094 | |
Soggetto topico: | Cities and towns - Europe - Growth |
Urbanization - Europe | |
City planning - Europe | |
Urban policy - Europe | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: |
CouchChris
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 / 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Urban sprawl in Europe ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-281-31901-5 |
9786611319014 | |
0-470-69206-5 | |
0-470-69134-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910143823403321 |
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