A longitudinal study of changes in urban sprawl between 2000 and 2010 in the United States

Hamidi, Shima; Ewing, Reid

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.04.021

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“…In order to alleviate these problems, many scholars have carried out numerous studies, which cover the following aspects: urban spatial extension and sprawl [6][7][8][9][10][11], industrial spatial layout [12,13], urban land use changes [14][15][16][17], and traffic organization [18,19], all of which has provided an important theoretical support for the study of UCLE. …”

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Monitoring the Different Types of Urban Construction Land Expansion (UCLE) in China’s Port City: A Case Study of Ningbo’s Central City

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Abstract:The internal structure of urban construction land expansion (UCLE) is closely related to urban sustainability, and the UCLE in China's port city has a unique pattern. This study attempted to monitor the internal structure evolution of UCLE based on construction land transfer data in Ningbo's central city from 2002 to 2015. Equality fan analysis and kernel density analysis were applied to characterize the spatial-temporal dynamics of different types of UCLE and to summarize their evolution patterns. The results revealed that in the whole study area, the rank of the expansion size and intensity of construction land was: industrial land > traffic land > residential land > public land > commercial land. The dominant directions of all types of UCLE were the directions of the port zones. In the port zones, there were more apparent expansion trends and higher expansion intensities of industrial, traffic and public lands, which meant that the port had significant impact on UCLE, especially in terms of industrial land. Additionally, commercial and residential land expansions showed a circle-shaped gradient pattern; industrial land sprawl was in a leapfrog pattern; public and traffic land sprawl was illustrated in a bi-centric pattern. In the future, local government should encourage the development of residential and public land rather than industrial land, and shift the present industry structure which dominated by industry to a more balanced structure, in order to achieve sustainable development.

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Monitoring the Different Types of Urban Construction Land Expansion (UCLE) in China’s Port City: A Case Study of Ningbo’s Central City

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“…Consistent with Hamidi and Ewing (2014), we limited our sample to larger urbanized areas with populations of 200,000 or more. The rationale for limiting our sample is that small urban areas are different qualitatively than large urban areas.…”

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“…Both the individual factors and overall index have been validated against transportation outcome measures Hamidi and Ewing, 2014;. The overall index has also been widely used in the literature (Congdon, 2016;Ewing et al, 2016a;Ewing et al, 2016b;Nelson et al, 2014;Nelson et al, 2015a;Nelson et al, 2015b;Lee, 2015;Sanderford et al, 2015;Sanderford et al, 2016).…”

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Does Compact Development Increase or Reduce Traffic Congestion?

Ewing¹,

Tian²,

Lyons³

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From years of research, we know that compact development that is dense, diverse, well-designed, etc. produces fewer vehicle miles traveled (VMT) than sprawling development. But compact development also concentrates origins and destinations. No one has yet determined, using credible urban form metrics and credible congestion data, the net effect of these countervailing forces on area-wide congestion. Using compactness/sprawl metrics developed for the National Institutes of Health, and congestion data from the Texas Transportation Institute's (TTI's) Urban Mobility Scorecard Annual Report database, this study seeks to determine which opposing point of view of sprawl and congestion is correct. It does so by (1) measuring compactness, congestion and control variables using the best national data available for U.S. urbanized areas and (2) relating these variables to one another using multivariate methods to determine whether compactness is positively or negatively related to congestion. Our model (and earlier studies by the same authors) suggest that an increase in compactness reduces the amount of driving people do, but also concentrates the driving in smaller areas. The former effect is slightly larger than the latter. The relationship between compactness and congestion falls short of statistical significance at the conventional 0.05 level. This analysis does not support the idea that sprawl acts as a "traffic safety valve," as some have claimed. However, it also does not support the reverse idea that compact development offers a one-stop solution to congestion, as others have claimed. Developing in a more compact manner may help at the margin, but the greatest reduction in congestion appears to be achievable through expansion of surface streets and higher highway user fees.17.

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“…The growth of urban systems is also influenced by the scale of urban space, traffic network, and complexity of the terrain [13][14][15]. A mechanism for the growth of the city has been proposed [16] but modeling the spatial and temporal dynamics of urban formation and evolution remains difficult [17]. Urban systems evolution mainly includes changes in two aspects: land use pattern and system structure [18].…”

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Spatial Pattern and Evolution of Urban System Based on Gravity Model and Whole Network Analysis in the Huaihe River Basin of China

Fan

Zhang²,

et al. 2018

Discrete Dynamics in Nature and Society

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The spatial pattern and evolution of urban system have been hot research issues in the field of urban research. In this paper, the network analysis method based on the gravity model and the related measurements were used to reveal the properties of the spatial pattern and evolution of the urban system in the HRB (Huaihe River Basin) of China. The findings of this study are as follows: During the period from 2006 to 2014, the economic contact between the HRB cities has been strengthened, but the differences between cities have been expanding. In general, the HRB cities have not yet formed a close network structure, and a trend of economic integration has not been found. This paper expresses the spatial pattern and evolution of urban system in an intuitive way and helps to explain the evolution mechanism of urban system. The method was confirmed by empirical research. Because of the operational and visual expression, this method has broad application prospects in the urban system research.

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A longitudinal study of changes in urban sprawl between 2000 and 2010 in the United States

Cited by 239 publications

References 41 publications

Monitoring the Different Types of Urban Construction Land Expansion (UCLE) in China’s Port City: A Case Study of Ningbo’s Central City

Monitoring the Different Types of Urban Construction Land Expansion (UCLE) in China’s Port City: A Case Study of Ningbo’s Central City

Does Compact Development Increase or Reduce Traffic Congestion?

Spatial Pattern and Evolution of Urban System Based on Gravity Model and Whole Network Analysis in the Huaihe River Basin of China

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