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Sundström, Peter. "Sprawl på närkingska." Thesis, Örebro University, Department of Social and Political Sciences, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-1192.
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Temat för denna studie är tätorters utveckling och regionala rumsliga inordning. Med utgångspunkt i det amerikanska begreppet sprawl, som brukar användas för att beskriva hur framför allt nordamerikanska städer har utvecklas, har statistik över tätorter i Örebros lokala arbetsmarknadsregion bearbetats och analyserats. Syftet med undersökningen har varit att relatera begreppet sprawls innebörder till de befolknings-, yt- och täthetsmässiga förändringar som tätorterna i Örebros lokala arbetsmarknadsregion genomgår under perioden 1980-2005 och den rumsliga formering som härmed genereras baserat på dem. Genom att utforska vad som avses med begreppet sprawl erhålls en tämligen klar bild av den stadsutveckling som begreppet beskriver. Denna beskrivning ligger sedan till grund för hur det statistiska materialet kan analyseras. Som sprawl förstås i denna undersökning befolknings- och yttillväxt i en central större ort där befolkningstätheten huvudsakligen kommer att öka, samt att närliggande system av tätorter också ökar sin befolkning och yta. Sammantaget ger detta en typ av sprawl som är rumsligt diskontinuerlig till sin karaktär genom att den består av flera från varandra fysiskt åtskilda platser som skiljer ut sig från andra tätorter genom att de ökar både sin befolkning och yta, alternativt har en variabel oförändrad medan den andra ökar. Analysen av det statistiska materialet över tätorterna i Örebro LA visar att sprawl förstådd på detta sätt återfinns i och runt Örebro tätort, medan mönstret inte går att finna hos övriga större tätorter i regionen.
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Lechner, Julia, and Gunther Maier. "Sprawl or No Sprawl. A Quantitative Analysis for the City of Vienna." Institut für Regional- und Umweltwirtschaft, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2009. http://epub.wu.ac.at/1734/1/document.pdf.
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Urban sprawl has been a hotly debated issue in urban development policy in recent decades. The discussion originated in the U.S.A. and has been transferred to Europe in recent years. In this paper we use existing quantitative measures that have been applied to other cities as well to generate indicators for whether or not urban sprawl is an important problem for the city of Vienna. The analysis clearly shows that the city has become less densely populated in the last 30 years. However, when comparing our results with those of other cities we see that Vienna scores quite favorably on practically all sprawl indicators.Series: SRE - Discussion Papers
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Lindsten, Edvin. "Sprawl och flytten till förorten." Thesis, KTH, Urban and Regional Studies, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-24835.
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Sprawl is a term widely used in the urban planning debate surrounding Los Angeles - but what does it really mean? It has been shown that the term is used to explain diverse phenomena and this paper investigates the concept from a historical perspective. The history seems to show that low-density suburbs have existed since the first cities we know of and that this might be more visible in Los Angeles only because of its large immigration.
Over the past 50 years the region around Los Angeles has gone from having the lowest population density in the U.S. to become one of the densest. This means that its reputation as the "sultan of sprawl" may no longer be valid and might also be a sign that the mobility of the car has reached its spatial boundary. One of the reasons that Los Angeles has become denser is the appearance of new cities in its periphery. This Resurrection of new cities in the periphery of existing cities is a phenomenon that has been called the "urbanization of suburbia" or "edge cities" and has been explained as a result of the transition to the post-industrial city. In this type of urban structure the boundaries between urban, suburban and rural can be hard to separate. One old and one new suburban city of Los Angeles – Mission Viejo and Santa Monica – are chosen for the case study to examine this at a local level. It turns out that the two suburban cities differ considerably in various aspects. The perhaps biggest difference between the cities can be found in how the land-uses are located in relation to each other. In Santa Monica, commercial areas are located along the main streets and the city is more mixed-use while in Mission Viejo the commercial areas are located at the outskirts of the city's exits to the highways. The cities also differ in other aspects of urban form and use such as architectural character, the structure of the streets and the accessibility to open space. Whether this can be considered representative of cities in general is not investigated in this paper and much more empirical research is needed to confirm or deny that but hopefully it gives an idea of how one of many similar new cities in the periphery of the Los Angeles urbanized landscape looks today.
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Marengo, María Cecilia. "Urban Sprawl and spatial planning." Doctoral thesis, International Forum on Urbanism, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11086/1841.
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Tesis de DoctoradoEl objeto de estudio de esta investigación es hacer frente a las oportunidades y limitaciones de la planificación para orientar el crecimiento urbano hacia la equidad socio-espacial. El contexto del estudio es una capital regional (Córdoba) en un país de menor desarrollo (Argentina). La extensión física, la segregación socioeconómica y la fragmentación urbana son las principales dimensiones para entender los procesos en curso. Con base en la evidencia empírica, el objetivo final de la investigación es impartir conocimientos sobre el proceso de expansión impulsado en un contexto de enfoque más flexible para las regulaciones de crecimiento urbano.
Marengo, María Cecilia. Urban sprawl and spatial planning : facing the challenges of growing social inequity : case study : Córdoba - Argentina. The netherlans : International Forum on Urbanism, 2008
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Li, Zhaoyang. "Monitoring urban sprawl using RGB images." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Akademin för teknik och miljö, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-9276.
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Bernhardt, Jan. "Urban Sprawl : origins and environmental consequences." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för teknokultur, humaniora och samhällsbyggnad, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-5947.
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The purpose of the present work is to provide a brief survey of the process of urban sprawl. What are its origins, how did it develop and why? Moreover, focus will be on envi-ronmental concerns in the framework of urban sprawl. The thesis concentrates on develop-ments in Europe and North America, where cities can look back on a long history of sprawl, and where processes have become very sophisticated. Based on a detailed description of the origins and history of urban sprawl in Europe and the United States, potentially sprawl-induced effects on the environment will be presented and discussed. In a further step, urban sprawl in two case studies (Stuttgart and Leipzig) will be highlighted and discussed with special focus on environ-mental effects. The purpose in doing so is basically to provide a basis and a starting point for further discussions concerning potential and actual effects of sprawl on environment con-cerns.
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Mei, Yuan Ph D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "The SPRAWL distributed stream dissemination system." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/97808.
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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2015.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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Many large financial, news, and social media companies process and stream large quantities of data to customers, either through the public Internet or on their own internal networks. These customers often depend on that data being delivered in a timely and resource-efficient manner. In addition, many customers subscribe to the same or similar data products (e.g., particular types of financial feeds, or feeds of specific social media users). A naive implementation of a data dissemination network like this will cause redundant data to be processed and delivered repeatedly, wasting CPU and bandwidth, increasing network delays, and driving up costs. In this dissertation, we present SPRAWL, a distributed stream processing layer to address the wide-area data processing and dissemination problem. SPRAWL provides two key functions. First, it is able to generate a shared and distributed multi-query plan that transmits records through the network just once, and shares the computation of streaming operators that operate on the same subset of data. Second, it is able to compute an in-network placement of complex queries (each with dozens of operators) in wide-area networks (consisting of thousands of nodes). This placement is optimal within polynomial time and memory complexity when there are no resource (CPU, bandwidth) or query (latency) constraints. In addition, we develop several heuristics to guarantee the placement is near optimal when constraints are violated, and experimentally evaluate the performance of our algorithms versus an exhausting algorithm. We also design and implement a distributed version of the SPRAWL placement algorithm in order to support wide-area networks consisting of thousands of nodes, which centralized algorithms cannot handle. Finally, we show that SPRAWL can make complex query placement decisions on wide-area networks within seconds, and the placement can increase throughput by up to a factor of 5 and reduce dollar costs by a factor of 6 on a financial data stream processing task.
by Yuan Mei.
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Ann, Hartell. "Contextualizing Location Affordability: Urban Sprawl and Foreclosure." WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2015. http://epub.wu.ac.at/6096/1/sre%2Ddisc%2D2015_06.pdf.
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Location affordability is a policy concept that links housing costs with transport costs, recognizing that assessing affordability should consider the combined costs incurred by a given location choice. As a more holistic perspective on affordability than traditional thresholds of housing costs alone, location affordability opens new possibilities for applied analyses that suggest a need for stronger coordination between housing and transport sectors in policy, planning, and project development.
A range of housing and transport system configurations can result in affordable locations. For example, it may be that high housing cost burdens in densely developed urban markets can be softened by the use of low-cost transportation services, such as public transit, cycling, or walking. Intensely urban areas are usually more compatible with low-cost transport modes because distances are shorter and density concentrates people so as to make public transit feasible. Conversely, in areas where there is little pressure on land markets and development is at low densities, housing prices are usually lower. Yet such areas are inefficient and expensive to serve by public transit; at the same time, long distances between work and residential locations make walking or cycling infeasible. As a result, households rely on private automobiles for transport, which require substantial investment to purchase, maintain, and operate one or more vehicles. Between these two extremes are a variety of patterns where households¿ housing and transport costs reflect the joint configuration of the land development and transport systems in a city. This joint configuration, or urban form, creates an influential backdrop for household location decisions and affects household cost structures.
In recent decades, scholars have focused on the phenomenon of urban sprawl, broadly understood to be ex-urban, low-density development, with segregated land uses and an orientation toward automobile use. Although there is general agreement on what sprawl is, there is weak consensus on a consistent definition appropriate for use in empirical studies. This is not merely an academic problem: If research is to provide evidence on location affordability to policy- and decision-makers, a coherent and clear conceptualization of the relevant dimensions of urban form is needed to identify specific strategies that support affordability.
This paper makes two contributions to the affordability literature. First, it operationalizes location unaffordability using Census tract-level mortgage foreclosure rates during the recent housing crisis as an outcome measure. From this perspective, foreclosures are an observable effect of some combination of factors that resulted in a dwelling unit becoming unaffordable such that the homeowner defaults on a home mortgage. This is in contrast to typical methods that accept normative thresholds for affordability (i.e. 30% of household income). Second, it uses multi-dimensional measures of urban form--recently developed by Andrea Sarzynski, George Galster, and Lisa Stack (2014)-to estimate the effect of particular patterns of development on affordability. These data are combined with demographic and household cost data in a series of spatial regression models for 35 US cities that exhibited the greatest changes in their development patterns over the preceding decade (1990s).Series: SRE - Discussion Papers
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Jacobs, Shane Anthony. "A Solution to Sprawl Through Public Transportation." Thesis, Montana State University, 2007. http://etd.lib.montana.edu/etd/2007/jacobs/JacobsS0507.pdf.
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Driving down the streets you call home, through the hills you would hike and sled as a kid, by the rivers and ponds you swam and fished in; you realize that every trip made is to a place that is less and less like home. Entire ranches have been subdivided. The mom and pop stores have been replaced by corporate chains. Asphalt has been laid, lanes have been added, streets have been punched, and bridges have been erected. The open space and privacy that everyone moved there for is dwindling; the American Dream is deteriorating. Is sprawl unavoidable due to the inevitable growth our society demands or can we live and grow more efficiently, more sustainably? The desire to achieve a better life has broken down our city walls and depleted our resources. "The growth of the world population will lead to a tremendous demand for space, not only for buildings but also for farmland and areas reserved for nature." Even highway systems can't seem to outpace suburbia. "Why has a higher standard of living somehow failed to result in a better quality of life?" A considerable amount of architecture and the majority of land planning revolves around the concept of the automobile. "Too many architects are becoming proponents of sprawl and the one-size-fits-all mentality that is strangling the earth." In rural Montana, people build where they can drive; if one cannot drive there, someone will cut a road or build a bridge. In urban Montana, zoning has tied people to their cars due to its demand that different uses be divided throughout a given city. "People say they do not want to live near where they work, but that they would like to work near where they live." What if we could uproot where people live, work, shop, exercise, and gather; rearrange their locations; then realign them in a community that enables a proficient life, with less pollution, traffic, stress, and resources used? Obviously, this isn't feasible due to cost and the chaos of displacement. This thesis is intended to analyze the way we live, build, and move from place to place while destroying the reason why we live where we do. This thesis will dissect transportation issues broadly in the United States and specific to the Missoula Valley and ultimately argue for the position of Missoula implementing a new model for the way it moves and grows. If realized, this process of rewiring will result in a series of incremental changes that have the ability to create a prototypical status for Missoula amongst other Montana and Northwestern cites that is unprecedented with regards to transportation as a solution to sprawl.
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Erickson, Leonard J. Jr. "Hybrid TND- a legitimate solution to sprawl." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23983.
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趙柏齡 and Pak-ling Chiu. "Urban labyrinth: Sprawl of multi-level streets." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2001. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31985701.
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Rothenberg, John (John Hershel). "Indeterminate liberal form : public space in sprawl." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39319.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2007.Includes bibliographical references (p. 97, 99).
The question of public space in sprawl is largely ignored, even as sprawl becomes the contemporary reality for more and more of us. This thesis defines a theory of Indeterminate Public Form and proposes the use of computational media to define and enable new forms of public space in sprawl. In addition, this document puts this theory into practice through a speculative architectural design and a physical installation. Both projects use sound as an expressive architectural material, molded and composed with computational technologies. The goal is to demonstrate the ability of computational technologies to create participatory public spaces in less than ideal conditions.
John Rothenberg.
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Hackman, Maxwell. "Unigov: The Indianapolis Response to Urban Sprawl." Digital Commons @ Butler University, 2014. http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/grtheses/258.
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Unigov is one of the most significant pieces of legislation in Indianapolis and Indiana history. In the often times hostile environment of Indiana politics it is nothing short of a miracle that the leaders in the Republican Party were able to get the Unigov bill approved and have it be as successful for the city as it has been. Unigov also created a modern day political machine for the Republican Party of Indianapolis. The new city of Indianapolis under the leadership of Republican Mayors Richard Lugar and William Hudnut has earned national name recognition on the convention circuit and for hosting amateur athletics events. Over time the growth attributed to Unigov has proven to be unsustainable. Unigov has also been inefficient at solving many of the social problems the city had when it was created.
Unigov and the initial growth of the city from its consolidation were dependent on the suburban tax base that used to exist in the outer townships of Marion County. Unigov has had the effect of pushing that tax base even further out from the central business district. Many of the problems Indianapolis faces today were the same problems it faced when Unigov expanded the city. This has had the effect of building a new city on old problems. As the suburbs have expanded they now compete directly with Indianapolis for jobs, entertainment, and cultural events. The goal of this paper is to better understand the need for Unigov, how it fits into a national context, and how the city has fared over the first twenty-two years since its enactment.
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Dolney, Timothy J. "VERTUS vehicle emissions related to urban sprawl /." [Kent, Ohio] : Kent State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=kent1182869915.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Kent State University, 2007.Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Mar. 19, 2009). Advisor: Jay Lee. Keywords: urban sprawl, vehicle emissions, air pollution, geographic information systems (GIS), home-work journey, simulation. Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-223).
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Chiu, Pak-ling. "Urban labyrinth : Sprawl of multi-level streets /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B2594633x.
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Torrens, Paul Morrison Kevin. "Simulating sprawl : a dynamic entity-based approach to modelling North American suburban sprawl using cellular automata and multi-agent systems." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.405484.
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Casta, Valeria. "Sprawl urbano: indici applicati a un caso studio." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2012. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/2990/.
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Lo sviluppo urbano avvenuto negli ultimi 20 anni soprattutto nelle grandi città, ma anche in quelle più piccole, è stato definito con il termine americano “urban sprawl”. In linea del tutto generale, lo sprawl può essere definito come la tendenza delle aree urbane a svilupparsi in maniera dispersa e disorganizzata nelle campagne circostanti. I principali impatti del fenomeno riguardano il consumo e l’impermeabilizzazione del suolo oltre a forti impatti su tutte le altre matrici ambientali. Per una corretta pianificazione necessita di essere studiato e quantificato nelle sue differenti declinazioni.
Nella presente tesi vengono riportati i risultati della analisi diacronica nel Comune di Carpi (Provincia di Modena) attraverso una sequenza temporale di mappe dell’uso/copertura del suolo (1954,1976,1997,2003,2008) appositamente redatte. Vengono, in particolare, analizzati gli aspetti legati allo sviluppo urbano (del comune e delle frazioni di sua competenza) al fine di evidenziare l’occorrenza di sprawl. Ciò è stato fatto attraverso l’analisi degli andamenti dell’area urbana e di quella agricola nel tempo, delle trasformazioni principali avvenute nel territorio (sia in termini qualitativi che quantitativi), dell’evoluzione della rete infrastrutturale e infine mediante il calcolo di indici propri dell’ecologia del paesaggio utilizzati in molti studi sullo sprawl urbano. Dai risultati di questa analisi emerge che il territorio in esame si è fortemente trasformato dal 1954 al 1976; in particolare l’urbanizzazione è avvenuta in un primo tempo a carico del centro principale di Carpi e in seguito (1976-2008) ha interessato maggiormente le frazioni secondarie e l’edificato discontinuo lungo le principali infrastrutture viarie. Questo aspetto è attribuibile al fenomeno dello sprawl in termini di sviluppo periurbano e di invasione delle campagne. Il calcolo degli indici ha evidenziato che l’area urbana totale è fortemente dispersa, sia rispetto al centro principale che considerata come totale, fin dal 1954 (alta entropia relativa di Shannon) e contemporaneamente il territorio agricolo si presenta frammentato (Patch Density e Mean Patch Size) e con un’eterogeneità ambientale abbastanza limitata; questi indici non mostrano però un andamento che indichi un aumento dello sprawl nella sequenza temporale. Ciò che gli indici rilevano è l’urbanizzazione veloce e compatta avvenuta tra il 1954 ed il 1976. Il presente studio rivela quindi l’inadeguatezza degli indici scelti ad evidenziare il fenomeno dello sprawl negli ultimi vent’anni nel territorio d’indagine a causa della bassa sensibilità a trasformazioni molto moderate ed a scale di dettaglio dell’area urbana molto piccole.
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Yasar, Ceren Gamze. "Politics Of Urban Sprawl: The Case Of Ankara." Master's thesis, METU, 2010. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12612492/index.pdf.
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The main hypothesis of this thesis is that the problem of urban sprawl, as a disorder in the growth of the cities, is not a natural result of the growth of the capitalist city but a phenomenon manipulated politically. Consequently, generally a geographically problematized phenomenonthe urban sprawl is, within this work, problematized with reference to urban politics. In the searching of the politics of urban sprawl, one of the political interventions into the urban space
the master plans has utmost importance in this work. The impact of the master plans on the sprawl of the city will be analyzed. A categorization of urban sprawl is proposed in the work, on the urban geography with reference to politics of urban sprawl. After illustrating the types of urban sprawl, the politics of urban sprawl is modeled. The political interventions of State, Metropolitan Municipality, District Municipalities, Housing Development Administration, Real Estate Agents and Rural Landowners located on the periphery is included in the model and their impact on the urban geography is evaluated. Ankara will be examined as a case in the politics of urban sprawl
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capital city controlled by master plans make her indispensable to study. The political interventions of the actors to the urban space of Ankara is highly visible especially considering urban sprawl in the geography of the city, yet another reason to work on.
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Chin, Nancy Ngan Gee. "Spatial analysis and the measurement of urban sprawl." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2007. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1445363/.
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The thesis extends the research of the SCATTER project which evaluates the understanding of urban sprawl in Europe and examines methods for quantifying sprawl. The thesis extends this by examining the extent to which the definition and identification of sprawl is influenced by the nature of the indicators and measures used, and on the scale at which they are applied. It assesses the suitability of measures used in the US context for the polycentric pattern of European cities. Measures used in the European context have been based on land use densities - this is extended to incorporate measures based on urban form and land use patterns. The findings highlight the difficulties inherent in defining and measuring sprawl, as sprawl is a complex phenomenon with experts in the regions often unable to agree on the patterns and consequences of this type of urban growth. It is not so much a specific land use pattern or set of patterns as a manifestation of concerns which are common features of modern urban growth - regardless of urban form - and which emerge from the emphasis of interpretation and the dimensions of interest to local administrators and land use authorities. The research has identified that measures are sensitive to the spatial area used - even areas with some similarities, such as county and travel to work areas or district and urban areas do not produce consistent results. In Europe therefore measuring sprawl is also complicated by the fact that self contained subcentres set in low density rural areas may contribute to sprawl in the city centre, yet this is not identified by traditional measures of sprawl which assume that areas related to the urban centre are contiguous.
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Su, Qing. "The effect of transportation subsidies on urban sprawl." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2006. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0001615.
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Powell, Ryan. "Urban sprawl in Reno-Sparks, Washoe County, Nevada." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2007. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1442855.
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Morison, Stephen J. "Participatory governance, sprawl and sustainability in Gatineau, Quebec." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/36430.
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Rooted in overwhelming evidence that our societies are not sustainable, this thesis explores the potential for participatory governance to improve the sustainability of land-use planning and decision-making. Participation is argued to be a critical component of governance for sustainability, for at least two reasons: (1) that to sustainably manage the incredibly complex interactions between human society and the environment requires profound understanding of those interactions; and (2) that to implement sustainability-oriented policies requires the consent and effort of those people that interacts with the environment. Focusing on urban sprawl as one facet of poor land-use governance for sustainability, this research took the form of a case study of urban sprawl in the City of Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. I explored the processes that facilitate and obstruct the participation of various people, groups and institutions in land-use governance, and analysed the likely impact of this governance structure on land-use sustainability. I employed policy analysis and 22 ethnographic interviews with local citizens, members of civil society groups, journalists, municipal councillors and public servants. I analysed these data within a framework of “goods” of participatory governance, namely: (1) inclusiveness; (2) popular control; (3) considered judgement; (4) transparency; and (5) efficiency. I concluded that land-use governance in Gatineau generally fails to foster meaningful civic participation: residents are not systematically included or represented, and have little control over governance processes; current processes and institutions do not foster considered judgement on land-use issues; while efforts have been made to improve transparency, this is still very lacking; and, what citizen-engagement exists is inefficient, time-intensive and emotionally demanding. I further concluded that: Land-use governance does not systematically ensure that complete and complex information is considered in decision-making; and Current governance processes are not adequate to build or maintain trust, buy-in and perceived legitimacy with citizens. As such, the current approach to land-use governance, and in particular the failure to foster meaningful civic participation, means that land-use governance in Gatineau is unlikely to produce sustainable outcomes. I end with a set of recommendations, for both the City government and civil society in Gatineau.
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Kozlowski, Gabriel. "Framing dispersal : urban strategies for Mexico City's sprawl." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99247.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2015.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. Vita.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 402-407).
Within the framework of Mexico City's urban sprawl, this thesis investigates one specific type of territorial occupation: the urbanization of subsidized housing developments on the periphery, which accounts for 17% of the city's total urban footprint, and has generated unlivable neighborhoods. Understanding urban design as a tool to critically address Mexico City's current mode of expansion, the thesis proposes strategies to revert this process. More specifically, it develops a conceptual as well as a design solution at four scales: a project for the city; a new paradigm for the existing housing developments; an urban design intervention for three of these developments; and a set of new building typologies to replace the current housing model. This approach that engages with Mexico City's urban problems through an analysis of the periphery has been previously neglected. With this study, I hope to open a broader discussion on urban design, and the role it can play in the future of Mexico City.
by Gabriel Kozlowski.
S.M.
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Law, Marie (Marie Lynne). "Domesticating sprawl : Dearborn Michigan and the Green Moat." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/34426.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2006.Includes bibliographical references (p. 98-101).
Over the last century of urban decentralization, the suburb migrated a critical distance beyond the traditional city, and transformed into sprawl. The homogenous landscape of sprawl is characterized by repeating horizontal imagery of featureless buildings foregrounded with grass berms, planned for experience through the mediating frame of the car's windshield. Contemporary design discourse has interrogated sprawl from many angles in search for ways to intervene in the most popular and most impenetrable form of American urbanism, issuing discussions ranging from those that raise polar alternatives to those that accept sprawl and meticulously analyze its forms and structure. However, this thesis asserts that the American Midwest is a unique and important territory that has not been adequately appraised in the sprawl debate. Not only does the underlying structure and ideology of Midwesternr landscape evoke certain comparisons to sprawl, one might argue that the American suburb was first borne out of the Midwest, more specifically around the Motor City Detroit. If the automobile is the enabling apparatus of sprawl, the birthplace of the automobile then coincides with the birthplace of the suburb. As both the originating source of suburban development and a current scene of booming sprawl, the metropolitan region of Detroit sees the confluence of the new and the old forms of decentralized urbanism and is accordingly an excellent proving ground for new insights and proposals.
(cont.) The project is sited at the zone of convergence between the 'edge' of Detroit, the first-growth suburban fabric of Dearborn, Michigan, and the ongoing sprawl of the Ford Motor Company. Rejecting the standard tabula rasa approach to sites of decentralized urbanism, this thesis evaluates the formal and social structures affected by sprawl as embedded and potentially meaningful contextual frameworks for design. Therefore, research and creative re-description are conceptualized as integral aspects of the design proposal. The investigation informs a hybridized morphological system that generates more fluid interrelationships between the presently disparate forms of decentralized urbanism in this context.
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Weber, Michael Stewart. "Mending : opportunities for Springville, Utah to counteract suburban sprawl." Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/4108.
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Klovers, Maureen. "The nexus between sprawl, neighborhood effects, and urban crime." CONNECT TO ELECTRONIC THESIS, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1961/3634.
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Chang, John. "The problematization of urban sprawl in the United States." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema teknik och social förändring, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-75526.
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This paper examines the controversy over urban sprawl in the United States. Because there is abundant descriptive literature about urban sprawl as well as numerous prescriptive “strategies” and “toolkits” to “tame” and “fight” sprawl, this paper instead examines urban sprawl as a social construction and specifically focuses on its non-problematization, the phenomenon of social groups which do not or refuse to acknowledge sprawl as a legitimate problem.
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Rong, Fang. "Impact of urban sprawl on U.S. residential energy use." College Park, Md. : University of Maryland, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/3848.
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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2006.Thesis research directed by: Public Affairs. Title from t.p. of PDF. Includes bibliographical references. Published by UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, Mich. Also available in paper.
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Cooper, Ryan M. "RE-PLACING SPRAWL: MAPPING PLACE IN AN AMERICAN SUBURB." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/geography_etds/6.
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In the post-World War II era land development in the United States has largely been focused on the expansion away from urban centers and out into the surrounding suburbs. While the development of suburbs began with utopian ideals of spiritual wholeness, their actual manifestation on the American landscape has been subject to harsh critiques about their long-term economic and environmental feasibility, fostering of social alienation, and general placelessness. In this thesis I address the criticism of suburbs as placeless, asking ―What are the particular practices of place-making in North American suburbs?‖ Examining interviews, cognitive map surveys, participant observation, archival materials, and geoweb activity through lenses of imageability and anticipatory action I seek to better understand how the residents of an Indianapolis suburb narrate, structure, and produce a sense of place in their own community. In doing so I argue that that suburbs force an understanding of place as both experiential and social that is beyond mere aesthetics.
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Mendez, Michael Anthony 1977. "Latino lifestyle & the new urbanism : synergy against sprawl." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/40616.
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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2003.Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-112).
With characteristics differing from majority households, Latino growth is occurring at a time California is conflicted between several urban development models; a choice between developing compact cities, preserving the environment or increasing urban sprawl and slums. A central argument of this thesis is that, given their household characteristics, the growing Latino population (the future majority population group) may become a key player in the construction of more compact cities in California. This thesis demonstrates that the current views towards status quo development and assimilation ignore the opportunity to build upon Latino's propensity for compact cities and negates the possibility to accommodate growth in California in a more sustainable manner. The thesis addresses city developmental policies that pressure Latinos to assimilate to the established U.S. notion of appropriate use of spaces and commuting patterns, and how they mitigate the economic, social and environmental benefits inherent in the Latino lifestyle. Research is presented that shows Latino assimilation of conventional lifestyles or what is referred to as "Latino Sprawl", could result in detrimental consequences not just for Latinos but also the general California population. These implications imply policymakers should shift away from conventional models that perpetuate status quo results and towards policy alternatives that plan for the balance growth of regions and housing models that reflect the diversity and needs that exists within California. Therefore, "Latino New Urbanism", is presented in this thesis as a new development alternative that assesses the changing population dynamics in California and proposes a model that can increase the quality of life of all residents, reduce the amount of environmental impact, provide the home building industry a viable option to profit from the huge projected housing demand and enable local governments to accommodate growth in a more sustainable manner.
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Lacinová, Andrea. "Landscape related factors affecting urban sprawl in European cities." Master's thesis, ISA/UL, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/13859.
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Mestrado em Arquitetura Paisagista - Instituto Superior de Agronomia - ULThis thesis aims to discuss some issues related to the actual situation of suburban sprawl in Europe and focuses on the nature and landscapes. Urbanization is a main topic in EU, since cities are still growing, economy is stabilized, although it faced some challenges during the last decade and the larger part of Europe experiences a long period of time with no war or health epidemic. People have the resources to invest in new housing and in many cases they want to fulfill their dream of a house with garden. But this vision requires a lot of space usage so cities are sometimes spontaneously expanding beyond their borders and sometimes it does not even correspond to state urban policies. Urban sprawl is also a serious issue for European nature that does not have as many space alternatives as for example the USA. There are issues with coastal habitats, landscape fragmentation and loss of natural habitats. Thus, this thesis aims to find the main drivers behind urban sprawl and issues related to them. It analyzes its political, economic or social background and deducts solutions for urban sprawl repair with the help of successful projects or experience of states/cities, that suffered from urban sprawl but managed to find a way how to keep the urban development in balance. In this thesis it is a case of Norway. In practical part of this thesis, two case studies were chosen to represent characteristic problems of urban sprawl. They are from Portugal (regional level) and Czech Republic (community level). Those two cases are analyzed independently on each other and variations of solutions are found for them
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Almeida, Berkley S. "A GIS Assessment of Urban Sprawl in Richmond, Virginia." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33264.
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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 urban sprawl. This thesis uses Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping and land cover change analysis, neighborhood statistics, community surveying, key-informant interviews with planners and developers, and planning documents to measure sprawl. The study area includes the jurisdictions that comprise the Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) of Richmond (The City of Richmond, Chesterfield County, Hanover County, and Henrico County). Urban land cover increased by one-fourth, from approximately 559 square kilometers to approximately 746 square kilometers from 1992 to 2001. Over the nine year time period, population within The City of Richmond decreased from 203,056 in 1990 to 197,790 in 2000, while Chesterfield, Henrico, and Hanover Counties increased in population from 1990 to 2001.
Until the early part of the 20th century, cities in the United States experienced dramatic densification as industry set up shop in the city and workers flocked there in large numbers to claim jobs. As population grew and technology became more advanced, many people left rural farming areas to settle near industrialized urban core areas. This allowed the population to earn more money and with the introduction of cheap transportation in the form of the automobile, suburbanization began to take place. With more cars came the need for more roads. With more roads came more opportunities for people and employment to move away from the city into rural areas, thereby setting up communities which some refer to as sprawling developments. GIS maps suburbanization in the form of urban land cover, transportation networks, and population densities within and outside core urban areas over any given time period in order to assess trends in urban growth.
This study analyzes urban land cover data as well as interviews with local developers and planning documentation to understand development trends in Richmond from 1992 to 2001. These dates reflect the availability of National Land Cover Data (NLCD), which I reclassified in the GIS to show only those classes that represent urbanized land. I then compared the two years to show the level of urban growth over the nine year time period. Next, I analyze patterns of urban expansion by using mapping capabilities within the GIS and neighborhood statistics in order to show the density and connectivity of patches of new growth. Based on the density and connectivity of new growth areas, I classify patterns as one of three types of sprawl: linear along highways, cluster, and leapfrog. My threshold densities are; 0 to 400 30 meter pixels per square kilometer for low density, 401 to 700 for medium density, and 701 to 1200 for high density. I also interviewed local developers and planners to gauge their opinions on the issue of urban sprawl versus urban growth. Developers do not see themselves as contributors to sprawl while planners see their roles as buffers between unfettered growth and market forces. The results indicate that the Richmond MSA did experience an increase in urban land from 1992 to 2001 and that urban growth in the study area can be classified as urban sprawl with the use of GIS mapping, neighborhood statistics, and analysis of jurisdictional planning documentation coupled with interviews with developers, land owners, and local planners. The density of new development is greatest in Henrico and Chesterfield, but the pattern and character with which development has occurred in Hanover is synonymous with sprawl. Sprawl is also facilitated by inexpensive land with available infrastructure (water, sewer lines).Master of Science
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Heubeck, Steven N. "Essays on competitive city development, sprawl and horizonal mergers." Connect to resource, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1267619294.
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Geshkov, Marin V. "The Effect of Land-Use Controls on Urban Sprawl." Scholar Commons, 2010. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1641.
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Chapter 1 provides a discussion of definitions, criticisms, and measurements of urban sprawl. Land-use controls are surveyed in Chapter 2. In Chapter 3, we present the monocentric urban model, followed by a discussion of extensions of that model to include land-use controls. Chapter 4 is a survey of previous empirical analysis of the monocentric model, while Chapters 5 and 6 present our own empirical work.
In general, our empirical results support the theoretical predictions as well as providing support for policies to control sprawl. In particular, the results support the use of maximum lot-size zoning, urban growth boundaries, and density restrictions in the form of minimum building heights, minimum square-footage limits, maximum building permits, and minimum persons per room.
The importance of this dissertation lies in the fact that it presents the first empirical analysis of the effects of land-use controls on urban sprawl. For this reason, the findings should be of interest to urban planners in their efforts to control urban sprawl. Because we test theoretical hypotheses found in the urban economics literature, the results should also be of interest to academic economists. Finally, the data on land-use controls gathered for the empirical analysis should be of importance to researchers in urban economics.
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Moussamim, Saad. "The Alternative to Sprawl: A Civil Consolidation - Integrated Interdisciplinary Approach." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/51808.
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Being a suggestive method of interpreting, and responding to the suburban
context, my approach does not draw guidelines or promotes a personal agenda.
In the same way that an architectural treatise is not a handbook, it is far from
becoming a written code. It is an attempt at understanding how universal values,
from our shared past, can contribute to our designs for the future.
Therefore, let us first reinterpret the way we consider architectural history. Let
us ask: How did certain patterns of development come about? Not what
architectural style they belong to! In this case study, I carefully investigated
regional, local, historical and cultural concerns, and responded to the current
situation. I will not claim my response to this site as the solution, but one of
many possible iterations that could be improved, grown, adjusted and modified.
I present to you: The Alternative to Sprawl : A Civil consolidation. This thesis
considers the redevelopment of three shopping centers, in Bailey's Crossroads of
Fairfax, VA, into a transit-oriented mixed-use community.
It is an interdisciplinary integrated approach, based on social issues. Although, it
matters to admit that in order to draw a creative, yet informed architectural solution,
one has to learn to step away from research and data to come up with truly inspired
work. My approach is the alternative to the commonly accepted alternative to sprawl.
I believe I can offer a thriving urban environment for every suburban individual,
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Sommer, Marvin. "Homeownership, the production of urban sprawl and an unexpected Nightingale." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22317.
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Homeownership and suburbanisation are two sides of the same coin in the context of Australia. This thesis explores the housing system that facilitates homeownership under a framework of institutional path dependence and how that has facilitated spatial patterns of suburbanization in contemporary Melbourne. Australia has been considered a homeowner society for the larger part of the 20th century. Living and owning a house on a ‘quarter acre block’ in one of its major cities is said to have been a virtue even before homeownership was in reach for the majority of the Australian population. The years after WWII enabled up to 70 per cent of the population to access homeownership tenure. In that, this thesis analyses the institutional, societal and economic configurations that enabled increased homeownership provision, but also the historical processes that further facilitated a system around a dominant tenure. Path dependency theory, developed in the field of historical institutionalism, offers an analytical toolbox to examine long-term processes. In a broad sense, path dependency refers to the continuous reproduction of institutional systems in place. The second part of this thesis examines urbanisation processes in Melbourne, under a framework of institutional and spatial change. Cities are changing environments that, although, they inhabit determinist and reinforcing spatial patterns and institutions, transition over time. By looking at historical and contemporary institutional processes, this thesis examines metropolitan strategies to consolidate the outward growth in the city of Melbourne. Under the aspect of change, current challenges to the built environment are presented. A third analysis connects the macro discussion with a case study of a local housing provider in Melbourne, that in some regards may be viewed as antithesis to the contemporary building regime in the Australian and Melbourne context. As the first in-depth path dependency analysis in the Australian context, this thesis can be viewed as a contribution to the growing body of path dependency literature with a housing focus that also combines the spatial nature of urban environments.
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Kraus, Joshua I. "Heralding post-modelism: causes, effects and resolutions of suburban sprawl." Thesis, Boston University, 2003. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27691.
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Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
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Ibekwe, Anieno Abasiofiok. "High school lessons on human sprawl in the Inland Empire." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2008. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3360.
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The aim of this project was to develop curriculum that educators could use to assist high school students (ages 14-17 years) in the Inland Empire of Southern California to apply critical thinking skills to understanding the negative effects of uncontrolled urban sprawl. The problems and issues which result from sprawl are emphasized in the learning activites.
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Lavery, Nathan. "Urban sprawl and the split-rate property tax evidence from Pennsylvania /." CONNECT TO ELECTRONIC THESIS, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1961/3646.
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Ståhle, Alexander. "Compact sprawl : Exploring public open space and contradictions in urban density." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-9193.
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Twentieth century urbanization has left a tremendous footprint on the globe. It is generally speaking a spread out fragmented suburban and exurban landscape continuously growing according to what has been called sprawl-like development, increasing energy and automobile dependency, challenging urban sustainability. Recently urban growth has also turned inwards because of economic and political change. Thus one of the main challenges for future urban design will be to ‘compact sprawl’. This thesis, set in the field of urban morphology, explores the spatial conditions for suburban densification by looking at administrative and user-related measures of density, public open space, and pedestrian accessibility. If we consider useful open space, it would not decrease density, but rather increase spatial compactness. So would also a well-connected street network, if we consider accessibility as part of density. The thesis’ first four papers explore new measures that contradict ordinary notions of density and the last three papers examine densification scenarios on different urban scales in collaboration with urban planners in practice. The paper Place syntax explores a possibility to combine the space syntax description of cognitive accessibility, axial line distance, with place attraction into a combined attraction-accessibility analysis model. Empirical investigation shows that place syntax analysis captures pedestrian movement and can be used for new types of location density analyses. Sociotope mapping describes the theoretical body of a new urban planning tool called the “sociotope map” (sociotopkarta) developed in Stockholm planning practice. The map emphasizes that the same public open space can have different direct use values for different people and thereby assesses qualitative open space area. Exploring Ambiterritory investigates the notion of (sub)urban no-man’s-land. Densification most often means increased open space use, which naturally leads to an increase of potential conflicting territorial interests. However, the reduction of vague user space and unclear legal territories by densification can increase the size of useful open space. More green space in a denser city investigates whether little public green space means low accessibility. User questionnaires and GIS-analyses in ten city districts in Stockholm correlate and show that it is possible to have more accessible green space in a denser city. Strategic exurban landscape densification investigates different municipal location strategies and development rates in the municipality of Kungälv. Results show that location strategies create the biggest landscape impact and not development rates. Greening metropolitan growth analyzes the density landscape in Stockholm county region and finds some correlations with health and socioeconomic variables. Growth scenarios in the regional plan for 2030 show decreasing compactness and spaciousness in inner suburbia. Compact sprawl experiments use the measures developed in the former papers on four densification scenarios in two suburbs in Stockholm. The results show how it is possible to efficiently compact modernist sprawl, particularly the inner suburbs. It is likely that we will be more dependent on walking, bicycling, and public transportation in the future. Street networks and public open spaces are then key issues today just as they were at the end of the nineteenthcentury, creating compact, sustainable, liveable, equitable, and more competitive cities. In fact, many compact urban cores such as in Stockholm, London, and Manhattan have through the 20th century persistently stood up to the competition against more sprawling cities. The thesis shows that compacting inner suburbia seems to be the new frontier many cities and planners are facing. In fact, this is a vast unexplored field that needs further attention in urban studies and urban morphology in particular.QC 20100913
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Hartell, Ann. "Sprawl and Commuting: Exploring New Measures of United States Metro Regions." WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2015. http://epub.wu.ac.at/6095/1/sre%2Ddisc%2D2015_07.pdf.
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The degree of connectivity and proximity that results from the configuration of land uses and associated transport networks is an important concept in much of the transportation research agenda. A substantial body of work has developed around the idea that compact, mixed-use
development with multimodal transport options will shape travel behavior, increasing the use of transit, walking, and cycling for routine travel. Yet empirical evidence is somewhat mixed. One of the reasons for this uncertainty is the difficulty of defining and measuring sprawl in a
meaningful way for use in quantitative analyses, rather than using regionally idiosyncratic or mono-dimensional definitions of sprawl. A recently released national dataset measuring multiple dimensions of urban form offers an opportunity to explore the relationship between transportation and sprawl.
This study uses a series of spatial regressions to model effects on the share of a county's workers who commute by driving alone. The results for income are found to be robust across various model specifications, confirming the well-established, positive relationship between income and d
riving to work. The results for the Street Accessibility
Factor suggest characteristics of the street network are
related to the choice to commute by driving alone, with more compact street networks and greater connectivity associated with reduced driving alone. The Land Use Mixing Factor has little power in explaining travel behavior, despite its intuitive appeal as the land use component of the commute mode decision.Series: SRE - Discussion Papers
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Morgan, Amy. "Re-thinking American Suburbs: Addressing Suburban Sprawl through Transit-oriented Development." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554373519100385.
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Gielen, Eric Madeleine Pierre. "COSTES DEL URBAN SPRAWL PARA LA ADMINISTRACIÓN LOCAL. EL CASO VALENCIANO." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de València, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/62866.
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[EN] The urbanization process developed of recent decades has supposed a change of paradigm in the urban model of the Valencian Community, happening from a model traditionally compact to other typical of the dispersed city, generating important environmental, social and economic effects.
The study of urban sprawl undoubtedly has a long tradition, especially in the United States. However, a clear and unambiguous measure of the urban dispersion does not exist and it is not easy to quantify the economic effects of urban sprawl on the current public expenditure, less so in the case of the Valencian Community. In the current economic context, the impact of urban sprawl on local public finances is one of the key factors in the decisions of local councils in urban planning. In fact, this research demonstrates that urban sprawl generates a higher unit cost of local public services, which produces a model of inefficient development from the economic perspective.
Firstly we proposed a measurement of urban sprawl using GIS techniques, allowing the characterization of the resulting urban model of Valencia at the municipal level. Secondly, we used a statistical model with data from budget areas of the municipalities to quantify the effect of urban sprawl on the Local Government expenditure variables, especially those which refer to current expenditure related to the municipal basic public services. Finally, we obtained a set of cost functions that we applied to the case of the municipalities in the Valencian Community in order to evaluate the economic effects of urban sprawl on the budget variables involved in the current expenditure of the Municipality, thus proposing a tool allowing to assess the impact of the different alternatives of growth of urban planning.[ES] El proceso urbanizador de estas últimas décadas ha supuesto un cambio de paradigma importante en el modelo urbano de la Comunidad Valenciana, pasando de un modelo tradicionalmente compacto a otro, característico de la ciudad dispersa, generando importantes efectos tanto ambientales, sociales como económicos. El estudio del urban sprawl tiene sin duda una larga tradición, sobre todo en Estados Unidos, sin embargo, no existe una medida clara y univoca de la dispersión urbana y tampoco es fácil encontrar una cuantificación de los efectos económicos de la dispersión urbana sobre el gasto corriente municipal, aplicado a la Comunidad Valenciana. Particularmente, el impacto de la ciudad dispersa en la hacienda pública local, en el contexto económico actual, es uno de los condicionantes a valorar en las decisiones de los ayuntamientos en materia de urbanismo. De hecho, con esta investigación, se demuestra que la ciudad dispersa genera un mayor coste unitario de los servicios públicos locales, lo cual produce en un modelo de desarrollo ineficiente desde el punto de vista económico. Metodológicamente, en primer lugar, se propone mediante el uso de técnicas GIS, una medición de la ciudad dispersa, permitiendo así caracterizar el modelo urbano resultante de la Comunidad Valenciana a nivel municipal. En segundo lugar, se cuantifica mediante un modelo estadístico, utilizando los datos de liquidaciones presupuestarias de los municipios, el efecto de la ciudad dispersa en las variables de gasto de la Administración Local, sobre todo en lo que se refiere a los gastos corrientes en los servicios públicos básicos municipales. Finalmente, se obtienen unas funciones de coste que, aplicadas al caso de los municipios de la Comunidad Valenciana, permite evaluar el incremento de gasto que supone la dispersión urbana en el gasto corriente municipal y plantear así una herramienta que permita evaluar el impacto de las distintas alternativas de crecimiento urbanístico de un Plan general.
[CAT] El procés urbanitzador d'aquestes últimes dècades ha suposat un canvi de paradigma important en el model urbà de la Comunitat Valenciana. S'ha passat d'un model tradicionalment compacte a un altre, característic de la ciutat dispersa, i s'han produït importants efectes tant ambientals com socials i econòmics. L'estudi de l'Urban Sprawl té, sense cap tipus de dubtes, una llarga tradició, sobretot als Estats Units. No obstant això, no existeix una mesura clara i unívoca de la dispersió urbana i tampoc és senzill trobar una quantificació dels efectes econòmics de la dispersió urbana sobre la despesa corrent municipal que s'aplique a la Comunitat Valenciana. Particularment, l'impacte en la hisenda pública local de la ciutat dispersa, en el context econòmic actual, és un dels condicionants a valorar en les decisions dels ajuntaments en matèria d'urbanisme. De fet, amb aquesta recerca, es demostra que la ciutat dispersa genera un major cost unitari dels serveis públics locals, per la qual cosa produeix un model de desenvolupament ineficient des del punt de vista econòmic. Metodològicament, en primer lloc, es proposa una medició de la ciutat dispersa, la qual permet caracteritzar el model urbà resultant en l'àmbit municipal a la Comunitat Valenciana. Aquesta medició es realitza mitjançant l'ús de les tècniques GIS. En segon lloc, es quantifica l'efecte de la ciutat dispersa en les variables de despeses de l'Administració Local, sobretot en allò referit a les despeses corrents en els serveis públics bàsics municipals. Aquesta quantificació es realitza mitjançant un model estadístic emprant les dades de les liquidacions pressupostàries del municipis. Finalment, s'obtenen unes funcions de cost que, aplicades al cas dels municipis de la Comunitat Valenciana, permeten avaluar l'increment de la despesa que suposa la dispersió urbana en la despesa corrent municipal i plantejar així una ferramenta que permeta avaluar l'impacte de les distintes alternatives de creixement urbanístic d'un Pla General.
Gielen, EMP. (2016). COSTES DEL URBAN SPRAWL PARA LA ADMINISTRACIÓN LOCAL. EL CASO VALENCIANO [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/62866
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Su, Qing. "Urban spatial structure and subsidized travel empirical evidence of urban sprawl." Saarbrücken VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2006. http://d-nb.info/98714474X/04.
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Schemionek, Christoph. "New urbanism in US-amerikanischen Stadtregionen ein effektives Planungskonzept gegen urban sprawl? /." Doctoral thesis, [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2005. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?idn=978844017.
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Styers, Diane Marie Chappelka Arthur H. "Urban sprawl and atmospheric pollution effects on forests in the Georgia Piedmont." Auburn, Ala, 2008. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/EtdRoot/2008/SPRING/Forestry_and_Wildlife_Sciences/Dissertation/Styers_Diane_43.pdf.
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Sorensen, Andre Bryan. "Land readjustment, urban planning and urban sprawl in the Tokyo metropolitan area." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.286593.
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Prevendar, Nathaniel J. (Nathaniel Joseph). "Form in the [middle]-ground : urban/suburban sprawl in Georgia & Tennessee." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65744.
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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-182).
Over the next quarter century the U.S. population will expand by 25 percent, an unprecedented steep and rapid increase that has already begun. The urban and suburban land area has been expanding to create a sprawling landscape of housing developments, shopping centers, and industrial parks. Sprawl has created a sense of disorientation as the spatial growth has blurred the boundaries between the rural landscape and urban/suburban cities and towns, leading to the creation of amorphous regions. This disorientation and the rapid increase in population are generating undesirable environmental consequences. This thesis proposes a new way of approaching the development of cities and towns so as to create clearly defined communities within the amorphous sprawl of development that is consuming the landscape and resources. I proposed the middle-ground, a term I use to suggest a place found between the rural and suburban/urban boundaries as a new landscape for development. Using U.S. Census data, GIS information, site visit and interviews I assess the impact of growth and sprawl in the Interstate 75 corridor region between Atlanta Georgia and Chattanooga Tennessee. I offer a new direction in smart growth in the design of a new town located between the sprawl of Chattanooga, Tennessee and Dalton, Georgia, to house 100,000 residents. In addition, I propose a new train station as a central transportation link between the Chattanooga and Atlanta airports as a means of creating a well-defined, well-populated node that is a counterpoint to those regions with blurred boundaries.
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Flynn, Kathleen M. (Kathleen Michele). "The sprawl of the wild : a new infrastructural landscape in Silicon Valley." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/45969.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2008.Includes bibliographical references (p. 82-83).
California faces an immediate and dire water shortage. The San Joaquin River Delta water supply system - which provides Silicon Valley with most of its fresh water - periodically draws down water delivery due to drought and environmental degradation. Currently, these policyscale decisions may only be met with very small-scale compensatory measures (on the order of "change your light bulbs"). There are not yet any solutions proposed at a middle, mediating, architectural scale. This thesis asks: how could an architectural intervention provide a solution to regional needs? Fast and furious development in recent decades has brought on and compounded major environmental problems, as well as increased the already high value of land in the region. In Silicon Valley, a growing population and a rapidly expanding high-tech (these days meaning biotech / pharmaceutical) industry pressure its few remaining large vacant parcels to develop. One can see in these sites the quiet but great potential danger of the status quo. They could just be the last large parcels slated for subdivision, and we could continue nostalgically lamenting the drain on and damage to natural resources. Or these sites could be our first chance at something new. This thesis explores a radically positive view of development, proposing an approach to program that multiplies value on all fronts economic, cultural, infrastructural, and environmental - and asks: how can a new infrastructure best perform?
(cont.) In order to directly address the region's multiple needs (infrastructural, economic, civic, and environmental), normative development provides a scaffolding for waste-water treatment wetlands that double as urban wildlife sanctuaries. This combined program capitalizes on a highly valued, increasingly scarce cash crop produced as a by-product when treating waste water. This new cash crop is water. Clean enough to drink, this water be sold back to the neighbors, forming a new infrastructural network of "locally grown" gray water. This infrastructural network reinstitutes wildness - if not wilderness - in Silicon Valley, combating its homogenous regional development patterns by proposing a new network " of un-settlement. A new homestead, for the new cash crop.
by Kathleen M. Flynn.
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Hailu, Yohannes G. "Growth equilibrium modeling of urban sprawl on agricultural lands in West Virginia." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2002. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2726.
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Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2002.Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 111 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 106-111).