Planning, competitiveness and sprawl in the Mediterranean city: The case of Athens

Chorianopoulos, Ioannis; Pagonis, Thanos; Koukoulas, Sotirios; Drymoniti, S.

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2009.12.011

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“…An evaluation exercise through quantitative indicators and multivariate statistical approaches was carried out in Attica, a southern European region characterized by consecutive phases of compact and dispersed urban expansion [29]. Athens' development did not benefit from an integrated planning of the metropolitan area, being instead influenced by successive waves of de-regulated urban growth characterized by different morphological characteristics and mixed functions [30].…”

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“…In the early 1960s, Athens; structure was centered on the manufacturing industry and traditional services (construction, commerce, public sector), slowly shifting to capital-intensive and high-technology services in the last few decades [28]. Since the early 1990s, the de-concentration of the central city followed by the expansion of discontinuous settlements on the fringe was observed [29]. The 2004 Olympic Games had a major impact on fringe development, with massive investments and some transport infrastructure [23,24,30], determining soil sealing and land consumption.…”

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“…Territorial variables include specific descriptors of urban structure (average elevation, proximity to the coast, municipal area and distances to four distinct urban centers: Athens, Piraeus, Maroussi and Markopoulo Mesogaias; see the numbers in Figure 1). These centers were selected to test the importance of different spatial organization models in the AMA: (i) a strictly mono-centric pattern centered on Athens as the main urban pole [31]; (ii) a two-center model based on the gravitation around Athens and Piraeus, seen as urban poles with distinct socioeconomic functions (Athens: services; Piraeus: industry, transport and logistics; e.g., [4]); (iii) a model based on the gravitation of the Olympic municipalities northeast of Athens (centered on the municipality of Maroussi hosting the Olympic stadium and representing the new urban core of the AMA [31]); and (iv) a suburbanization model based on the gravitation around Mesogaias municipalities (i.e., Markopoulo M.), which is considered the largest sprawling area in Attica [28,29]. Distances from urban centers were measured using spatial functions, such as the "centroid" command provided by ArcGIS that computes the center of gravity of each municipality and measures the distance to a fixed, reference place (Environmental System Research Institute Inc., Redlands, CA, USA).…”

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Long-Term Urban Growth and Land Use Efficiency in Southern Europe: Implications for Sustainable Land Management

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Abstract:The present study illustrates a multidimensional analysis of an indicator of urban land use efficiency (per-capita built-up area, LUE) in mainland Attica, a Mediterranean urban region, along different expansion waves : compaction and densification in the 1960s, dispersed growth along the coasts and on Athens' fringe in the 1970s, fringe consolidation in the 1980s, moderate re-polarization and discontinuous expansion in the 1990s and sprawl in remote areas in the 2000s. The non-linear trend in LUE (a continuous increase up to the 1980s and a moderate decrease in 1990 and 2000 preceding the rise observed over the last decade) reflects Athens' expansion waves. A total of 23 indicators were collected by decade for each municipality of the study area with the aim of identifying the drivers of land use efficiency. In 1960, municipalities with low efficiency in the use of land were concentrated on both coastal areas and Athens' fringe, while in 2010, the lowest efficiency rate was observed in the most remote, rural areas. Typical urban functions (e.g., mixed land uses, multiple-use buildings, vertical profile) are the variables most associated with high efficiency in the use of land. Policies for sustainable land management should consider local and regional factors shaping land use efficiency promoting self-contained expansion and more tightly protecting rural and remote land from dispersed urbanization. LUE is a OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 3360 promising indicator reflecting the increased complexity of growth patterns and may anticipate future urban trends.

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“…Such a strategy is not considered to be in conflict with the pursuit of economic growth; it is rather the opposite [72,73]. Replacing urban sprawl with densification is key to this end.…”

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Two Contrasting Scenarios for a Zero-Emission Future in a High-Consumption Society

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Abstract:The Paris agreement on climate took effect on 4 November 2016. The agreement plans on holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2 • C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 • C above pre-industrial levels. This paper compares an ecological modernisation (EM) development path with a degrowth development path, using urban and land-use planning impact on housing and transportation as cases. The two positions (EM and degrowth) agree on the need for a fundamental reduction in climate gases but disagree on which strategies should be pursued. EM transitions do not challenge the values associated with the capitalistic market economy and believe that policies, such as the right-price signals, should nudge producers and consumers in an environmentally benign direction. Conversely, degrowth rejects the EM belief in green growth, and holds that it will not be possible to decouple the economy from environmental loads to the necessary extent if the economy keeps growing. We conclude that we need a fundamental transformational change in society, i.e., a steering away from the growth ideology, and pursue policies that introduce maximum housing standards and limit mobility to succeed with the goals of the Paris agreement.

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“…These aspects relate to the concept of "city competitiveness", in other words, attractive cities (or regions) are efficient, accessible and offer economic opportunities to both investors and workers [9,14,16,17]. In terms of accessibility, attractive areas have efficient transport systems mainly in terms of external connections linking those areas to other parts of a large territory.…”

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Community Structure Detection in the Evolution of the United States Airport Network

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pairs of domestic airports and the number of passengers carried. The topological properties and the volume of people travelling are both studied in detail, revealing high heterogeneity in space and time. A recently-developed community structure detection method, accounting for the spatial nature of these networks, is applied and reveals a picture of the communities within. The patterns of communities plotted for each bi-monthly interval reveal some interesting seasonal variations of passenger flows and airport clusters that do not occupy a single US region. The long-term evolution of the network between those years is explored and found to have consistently improved its stability. The more recent structure of the network (2010) is compared with migration patterns among the four US macro-regions (West, 2 Midwest, Northeast and South) in order to identify possible relationships and the results highlight a clear overlap between US domestic air travel and migration.

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Planning, competitiveness and sprawl in the Mediterranean city: The case of Athens

Cited by 241 publications

References 30 publications

Long-Term Urban Growth and Land Use Efficiency in Southern Europe: Implications for Sustainable Land Management

Long-Term Urban Growth and Land Use Efficiency in Southern Europe: Implications for Sustainable Land Management

Two Contrasting Scenarios for a Zero-Emission Future in a High-Consumption Society

Community Structure Detection in the Evolution of the United States Airport Network

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