Containing urban sprawl—Evaluating effectiveness of urban growth boundaries set by the Swiss Land Use Plan

This paper discusses the relationship between the political-administrative border and the urban growth boundary around Brussels, the Belgian capital. Our hypothesis is that the interests of the various regions and language groups in Belgium interfere strongly with urban planning policies, implying that the administrative border of the Brussels-Capital Region operates in reality as an unintended urban growth boundary.Based on demographics, commuter data and property market features, we argue that this situation may cause excessive urban compaction of the Brussels-Capital Region, while spillover effects to municipalities that are rather distant from Brussels may result in undesired forms of suburbanization and long distance commuting.

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“…These forms of policy apply in Great-Britain, Japan and Switzerland (Gennaio et al, 2009;Millward, 2006). …”

Section: Expected Effects Of An Ugbmentioning

confidence: 99%

Colouring Inside What Lines? Interference of the Urban Growth Boundary and the Political–Administrative Border of Brussels

Boussauw

Allaert

Witlox

2013

European Planning Studies

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“…However, most of those policy strategies -when applied -have revealed only partly effective in northern Mediterranean cities because of the lack of explicit goals (Bengston et al, 2004;Koomen et al, 2008;Salvati et al, 2013). Nevertheless their application demonstrates the importance of strategies considering a 'building zone' opposed to a rural area inside urban municipalities (Gennaio et al, 2009). Such an institutional control on building activity could be a crucial point in the case of large Mediterranean cities (Giannakourou, 2005) where illegal building or isolated properties often make place to new built-up areas.…”

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Land-Use Structure and Urbanization-Driven Land Fragmentation: Revisiting the Monocentric Model in a Sprawling Region

Ranalli¹,

Salvati²

2015

ESR&P

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“…2, research refers to larger spatial scales and involves methods and questions that either operate directly at a larger scale or enable the contextualization and synthesis of case studies in this larger scale analysis (e.g., Thapa and Rasul 2006, Gennaio et al 2009, Willemen et al 2010, Jepsen et al 2015, Stürck et al 2015, Loran et al 2016, van Zanten et al 2016. What are the patterns of historical landscape continuity and change?…”

Section: Linking Driving Forces Concepts With Research Aims and Spatimentioning

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From concepts to practice: combining different approaches to understand drivers of landscape change

Kizos¹,

Verburg²,

Bürgi³

et al. 2018

E&S

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ABSTRACT. Landscape change and its drivers have been the focus of a growing body of literature in the past years. Our objective is to present different approaches to studying and understanding landscape change. We sketch the way in which different approaches and existing conceptual models are related to spatial scales and epistemological aims, and discuss complementarity and a range of applications with five specific research approaches from a Mediterranean landscape, including approaches at national and European levels. These include an analysis of historical landscape change, an investigation of decision-making processes, public awareness raising, evaluation of landscape services, and provision of policy support with data from published and unpublished material. The findings indicate that on the issue of complementarity, some models work better together with others. A major difference observed is the role that conceptual models and related approaches provide to the "voice" of stakeholders and actors of landscape change, sometimes contradicting, but often complementary. An important issue that comes up is a need for a plurality of research approaches and underlying conceptualizations of human-environment interactions, as the approaches represent different lenses for looking at the humanenvironmental system that are all abstractions from the full complexity of how decision-making on land use is conducted.

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Containing urban sprawl—Evaluating effectiveness of urban growth boundaries set by the Swiss Land Use Plan

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Colouring Inside What Lines? Interference of the Urban Growth Boundary and the Political–Administrative Border of Brussels

Colouring Inside What Lines? Interference of the Urban Growth Boundary and the Political–Administrative Border of Brussels

Land-Use Structure and Urbanization-Driven Land Fragmentation: Revisiting the Monocentric Model in a Sprawling Region

From concepts to practice: combining different approaches to understand drivers of landscape change

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