Urban sprawl in Europe [[electronic resource] ] : landscapes, land-use change & policy / / edited by Chris Couch, Lila Leontidou and Gerhard Petschel-Held

• 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
• Altri autori: CouchChris LeontidouLila Petschel-HeldGerhard
• 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.: 9910677358503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Real estate issues (Oxford, England)