A Pluralistic Approach to Defining and Measuring Urban Sprawl

Urban Remote Sensing: Monitoring, Synthesis and Modeling in the Urban Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 165-181

  Frenkel, Amnon ^a   Orenstein, Daniel ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

"urban sprawl" for undesired low density, or otherwise unplanned urban spatial development; "urban sprawl" coined by Buttenheim and Cornick (1938) latter half of 20th century; Accessibility, between residential, commercial and business areas sprawl, condition of poor accessibility; Actual use of "sprawl" in the United States in the 1950s, widely used from 1960s; Historic forms of "urban sprawl" massive migration from rural areas to industrial cities, transformation into centers of activities, in Europe; Multiple definitions of sprawl urban development patterns, and measuring quantifying patterns; Spatial geometry the largest group of sprawl measures; Sprawl, pattern at a given time and a process of change over time; Sprawl, spatial pattern of urban development characterized, by low density residential and commercial development; Urban socioeconomic analyses pluralistic approach, measuring urban sprawl

Indexed keywords

HOUSING; REMOTE SENSING;

20TH CENTURY; ACCESSIBILITY, BETWEEN RESIDENTIAL, COMMERCIAL AND BUSINESS AREAS - SPRAWL, CONDITION OF POOR ACCESSIBILITY; ACTUAL USE; LOW DENSITY; PLURALISTIC APPROACH; SPATIAL GEOMETRY; SPRAWL, PATTERN AT A GIVEN TIME - AND A PROCESS OF CHANGE OVER TIME; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN SPRAWL;

URBAN GROWTH;

EID: 84886177424     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470979563.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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