Latent Exurban Development: City Expansion Along the Rural-To-Urban Gradient in Growing and Declining Regions of Southern Europe

Salvati, Luca; Morelli, Vittorio Gargiulo; Ρόντος, Κώστας; Sabbi, Alberto

doi:10.1080/02723638.2013.778675

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“…The strongest increases in urban sprawl were reported for the outskirts of cities and for rural areas. Even many cities with declining population, most of which are found in Central and Eastern Europe (Turok and Mykhnenko, 2007), have exhibited an increase in urban sprawl (Reckien and Karecha, 2007;Siedentop and Fina, 2010;Salvati et al, 2013;Haase et al, 2014).…”

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Multi-scale analysis of urban sprawl in Europe: Towards a European de-sprawling strategy

Hennig

Schwick

Soukup³

et al. 2015

Land Use Policy

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a b s t r a c tUrban sprawl is a major challenge on the way to sustainable land use as highlighted by the International Year of Soils 2015. Because of increasing awareness of this threat in Europe, there is an urgent need to monitor urban sprawl and to guide European policy development. We found considerable sprawl in Europe at three scales with highly affected regions in the centre and along the Mediterranean coast using recently available consistent data across Europe from the European Copernicus programme. Based on our results, we propose a European de-sprawling strategy, including the implementation of targets and limits, and a set of concrete measures to control urban sprawl and to use land in a more resourceefficient way.

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Section: Comparison With Other Studies and Advantages Of The Wup Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multi-scale analysis of urban sprawl in Europe: Towards a European de-sprawling strategy

Hennig

Schwick

Soukup³

et al. 2015

Land Use Policy

161

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“…Non-parametric PCA has multiple aims: (i) to remove the scaling effect typically associated with covariance matrices; and (ii) to consider both linear and non-linear correlation patterns among variables. Spearman's rank correlation coefficient is a non-parametric, rank measure of statistical dependence between two variables [39]. Spearman correlation is less sensitive than Pearson correlation to outliers, since Spearman's coefficient limits the outlier to the value of its rank, and considerable deviation from normality.…”

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Toward a New Cycle: Short-Term Population Dynamics, Gentrification, and Re-Urbanization of Milan (Italy)

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Abstract:After sequential cycles of urbanization and suburbanization, European cities underwent a (more or less intense) re-urbanization wave. The present study analyzes short-term population dynamics in the core of a large metropolitan region (Milan, northern Italy), providing evidence of spatially-heterogeneous re-urbanization characterized by spatially-complex population growth (or shrinkage) at a local scale. Population dynamics over 1999-2017 were assessed in 88 urban districts partitioning Milan s municipal area and projected up to 2036 for the same spatial units. Empirical results identify spatially-complex and temporally non-linear dynamics with expanding or declining districts distributed heterogeneously across the study area. Multivariate analysis outlines a generalized population decline during 1999-2008 and an opposite pattern afterward (2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017), with spatially-homogeneous population expansion expected in the near future. Spatial analysis finally highlights that local-scale population growth rates were more clustered in 2008-2017 than in 1999-2008. While the population decreased continuously in the inner districts (<1 km from the city centre), sub-central districts (1-5 km far from the city centre) experienced mixed patterns of population growth and stability. These results confirm the relevance of local-scale policies managing urban renewal and rehabilitation and promoting metropolitan expansion in a spatially-coordinated manner.

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“…The general trend has been an urban spillover directed to the outer part of the metropolitan region, with the most rapid growth at the margins-but not in simple concentric rings. Some authors have claimed that the Spanish sprawl is similar to the North American suburban model in terms of low-density housing typologies and new residential landscapes (e.g., Dura-Guimera, 2003 [39] [41]) stating that (i) in many Spanish cities sprawl is a relatively recent phenomenon; (ii) inner districts in Mediterranean cities have retained high population density; and (iii) due to the compact nature of southern European cities, morphology and intensity of sprawl are different from the American model-with a marked urban-rural divide.…”

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Revisiting “Southern” Sprawl: Urban Growth, Socio-Spatial Structure and the Influence of Local Economic Contexts

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Zambon

Ippolito

et al. 2015

Economies

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Given its unpredictable nature, urban sprawl in the Mediterranean region is considered an intriguing (and intricate) socioeconomic issue. Since the 1970s, urban dispersion advanced rapidly in southern Europe-irrespective of a city's size and morphology-with urbanization rates growing faster than population. A comparison between the metropolitan areas of Barcelona, Rome and Athens reveals how sprawl has occurred in different ways in the three cities, highlighting peculiar relationships between urbanization, land-use and economic structures. Sharing common drivers of change related to population dynamics, socio-spatial structure and deregulated urban expansion, sprawl has adapted to the local economic, cultural and environmental context. Barcelona shows a dispersion pattern towards a more spatially-balanced morphology, with expanding sub-centres distributed around the central city, Rome appears to be mostly scattered around the historical city with fragmented OPEN ACCESSEconomies 2015, 3 238 urban fabric and heterogeneous economic functions, Athens is denser, with polarized economic spaces and social segregation. Understanding how place-specific factors influence processes of settlement dispersion in Mediterranean contexts may inform policies of urban containment and land-use management.

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Latent Exurban Development: City Expansion Along the Rural-To-Urban Gradient in Growing and Declining Regions of Southern Europe

Cited by 77 publications

References 43 publications

Multi-scale analysis of urban sprawl in Europe: Towards a European de-sprawling strategy

Multi-scale analysis of urban sprawl in Europe: Towards a European de-sprawling strategy

Toward a New Cycle: Short-Term Population Dynamics, Gentrification, and Re-Urbanization of Milan (Italy)

Revisiting “Southern” Sprawl: Urban Growth, Socio-Spatial Structure and the Influence of Local Economic Contexts

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