Latent exurban development: City expansion along the rural-to-urban gradient in growing and declining regions of southern Europe

Urban Geography

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 376-394

  Salvati, Luca ^a   Morelli, Vittorio Gargiulo ^b   Rontos, Kostas ^c   Sabbi, Alberto ^d  

^a Cons per la Ric Speriment Agricoltura Ctro per Lo Stud Delle Relazioni Pianta Suolo ^*  (Italy)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c University of the Aegean Militini   (Greece)

^d ITALIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STATISTICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION GROWTH; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 84879222039     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02723638.2013.778675     Document Type: Article

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