A Geospatial Approach to Measuring New Development Tracts for Characteristics of Sprawl

Hasse, John

doi:10.3368/lj.23.1.52

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“…The Sierra Club, for example, used time wasted in traffic as one measure of sprawl (1998). Other examples include measures of accessibility for given urban designs (Ewing et al 2002); access to urban resources (Ewing et al 2002;Hasse 2004); and opportunity diversity in land-use mix (Burchell et al 1998;Ewing et al 2002;Hasse and Lathrop 2003a;Malpezzi 1999).…”

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A Toolkit for Measuring Sprawl

Torrens

2008

Appl. Spatial Analysis

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Debate regarding suburban sprawl in urban studies is contentious. It is fair to say that the phenomenon is not fully understood to satisfaction in the academic, policy, or planning communities and there are a host of reasons why this may be the case. Characterization of sprawl in the literature is often narrative and subjective. Measurement is piecemeal and largely data-driven. Existing studies yield contrary results for the same cities in many cases. The partial appreciation for the intricacies of sprawl is problematic. In practice, city planning agencies and citizen advocacy groups are scrambling to suggest and develop "smart growth" strategies to curb sprawl, without a strong empirical basis for measuring the phenomenon. Yet, sprawl is extremely popular with consumers. In this paper, we develop an innovative approach to diagnosing sprawl, looking across the full range of its characteristic attributes in a comprehensive fashion that is robust to some well-known challenges. This proves to be very useful in sweeping the parameter space of the phenomenon, enabling the visualization and valuation of sprawl surfaces across attributes, allowing us to check the pulse of a developing city. We apply the work to Austin, TX, a controversial exemplar of American sprawl, with the surprising result that sprawl and "smart growth" are found to co-exist and co-evolve. This raises questions about relationships between the two, with consequences for planning and public policy.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Toolkit for Measuring Sprawl

Torrens

2008

Appl. Spatial Analysis

202

163

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“…There have been numerous studies that have defined scenarios that contribute to sprawl such as rent, demographic changes, transportation, tax policies, and land use regulations [23]. These amount variables help to bring the geospatial context into this study, similar to [30] multi-indicator approach of sprawl, which help determine how it might occur.…”

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“…The literature often keeps the context of sprawl within the metropolitan/urban area with limited examination outside this area [30,32,38,[41][42][43]. A reason might be explained by the census (U.S. Census Bureau) reporting over 280 million people living in the United States in the year 2000 with 80% living in metropolitan areas.…”

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“…Sprawl is linked to a plethora of issues including economic [9,24], pollution [25], environment [26], social capital [27], transit oriented development [9], water degradation [28] and conservation challenges [29]. The existing literature reveals a variety of spatial and/or non-spatial measures of sprawl from entire Caribbean islands and metropolitan areas to the Census tract scale [21,[30][31][32][33][34]. This paper builds on, these approaches and allows for landscape scale comparisons explicitly at a mesoscale utilizing widely available existing classified satellite land use/cover and population data.…”

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“…The tract scale is a census spatial measure that is larger than neighborhood scale and closer to a community scale of measure. Hasse [30] provides an approach for measuring geospatial characteristics of development areas for sprawl characteristics. His approach utilized twelve geospatial metrics, such as nearest neighbors, travel time, and impervious surfaces, etc., to compare location and configuration of three subdivisions.…”

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Measuring Sprawl across the Urban Rural Continuum Using an Amalgamated Sprawl Index

Kew

Lee

2013

Sustainability

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Urban sprawl is rapidly transforming the landscape of Kentucky"s prime farmland from a dominant agricultural land use pattern to a patchwork of dispersed and loosely defined parcels. This state, located in the east central portion of the U.S., is not unlike many states considered rural, nor is it unlike many rural regions found throughout the world where urban sprawl is concentrated in metropolitan areas that are often encroaching into these rural areas. Authors have argued for and against urbanization patterns generally understood to be sprawl on the basis of social, economic, and biophysical opportunities and constraints. Finding consensus in the literature about defining and measuring urban sprawl is difficult. This paper demonstrates a method for cost effectively measuring urban development using National Land Cover Data, Census data, and ancillary data across 34 counties. Based on seven indicators framed around the amount, configuration, and per capita land usage, an amalgamated sprawl index (ASI) is demonstrated through an example in north central Kentucky, USA. While the public believes this growth area of Kentucky is rapidly sprawling, this study indicates the pattern of sprawl is spreading faster in areas not obvious to this same public.

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A Pluralistic Approach to Defining and Measuring Urban Sprawl

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Orenstein

2011

Urban Remote Sensing

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A Geospatial Approach to Measuring New Development Tracts for Characteristics of Sprawl

Cited by 29 publications

References 11 publications

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A Toolkit for Measuring Sprawl

Measuring Sprawl across the Urban Rural Continuum Using an Amalgamated Sprawl Index

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