Insight into the spatial nature of the urban sprawl phenomenon in European capitals
Wiktoria Grabowska,
Anita Kukulska‐Kozieł,
Tomasz Noszczyk
Abstract:This research provides a brief insight into the spatial nature of urban sprawl in functional urban areas (FUAs) of European capitals, as opposed to most investigations into urban growth that focus on case studies. Its purpose is to identify European capitals that grow the most and characterize the spatial aspect of urban sprawl and dynamics of ensuing land‐cover change between 2006, 2012, and 2018. We employed open data from the Urban Atlas, which we processed with spatial analyses and the NUASI (Normalized Ur… Show more
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