Planning for compact urban forms: local growth-management approaches and their evolution over time

Rudolf, Sophie C.; Kienast, Félix; Hersperger, Anna M.

doi:10.1080/09640568.2017.1318749

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“…A more nuanced representation of urban land use, as suggested above, is needed to improve our capacity for model-based assessments of land use plans and policies. Currently available models can include measures that promote or regulate the conversion to urban land, but existing spatial plans often include much wider range of policy measure achieve more holistic visions than only restricting urban sprawl (Grădinaru, Iojă, Pătru-Stupariu, & Hersperger, 2017;Rudolf et al, 2018). Fig.…”

Section: Implications For Land-use Modelling For Planning and Policy mentioning

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Beyond the urban-rural dichotomy: Towards a more nuanced analysis of changes in built-up land

Vliet

Verburg

Grădinaru

et al. 2019

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

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Urban land and rural land are typically represented as homogenous and mutually exclusive classes in land change analyses. As a result, differences in urban land use intensity, as well as mosaic landscapes combining urban and rural land uses are not represented. In this study we explore the distribution of urban land and urban land use intensity in Europe and the changes therein. Specifically, we analyze the distribution of built-up land within pixels of 1 km 2. At that resolution we find that most built-up land is distributed over predominantly nonbuilt-up pixels. Consistently, we find that most urban land use changes between 2000 and 2014 come in small incremental changes, rather than sudden large-scale conversions from rural to urban land. Using urban population densities, we find that urban land use intensity varies strongly across 1 km 2 pixels in Europe, as illustrated by a coefficient of variation of 85%. We found a similarly high variation between urban population densities for most individual countries and within areas with the same share of built-up land. Population changes have led to different combinations of urban land expansion and urban intensity changes in different study periods (1975-1990, 1990-2000, and 2000-2015) and countries. These findings suggest that land use change models could be improved by more nuanced representations of urban land, including mosaic classes and different urban land use intensities.

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Beyond the urban-rural dichotomy: Towards a more nuanced analysis of changes in built-up land

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Verburg

Grădinaru

et al. 2019

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

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“…The extended SLEUTH model is a valuable tool for decisionmakers to form environmental planning and management policies, as urban growth increasingly poses serious challenges to sustainable environmental management (Llaus as et al, 2016;Rudolf et al, 2018). By varying model parameters which represent environmental quality thresholds, the model can be applied to studying the formulation of environmental planning and management policies (such as environmental functional zoning) and testing the response of urban expansion to these policies.…”

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Extending the SLEUTH model to integrate habitat quality into urban growth simulation

Wang

Chen

et al. 2018

Journal of Environmental Management

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This study aims to support sustainable urban and environmental planning by using urban growth simulation models, in which environmental quality is employed as one of the inputs. We proposed an extended SLEUTH urban growth model (UGM) for the regions threatened by environmental quality degradation caused by uncontrolled urban expansion. In this model, habitat quality is assessed by the InVEST model and is used to represent environmental quality, which is utilized in urban growth simulation. The habitat quality map is used to replace the slope layer as input for the SLEUTH model's urban growth simulation for cities where relatively flat topography makes this layer of minimal explanatory value. The extended SLEUTH UGM was calibrated using data for Changzhou city, China in 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2014. The best value of the Optimal SLEUTH Metric (OSM) was calculated for both the standard SLEUTH UGM and the extended SLEUTH UGM independently. The OSM value for the latter model was much higher than that of the former model, which indicated that the extended model provided a better explanation of urban growth in the study area. The calibrated extended SLEUTH UGM was applied to predict growth in Changzhou city from 2014 to 2030. The result showed that the urban area is expected to expand about 626 km by 2030. Comparison with the prediction result by using standard SLEUTH UGM showed that the area with high habitat quality could be reserved and the urban expansion could be limited by using our model. The findings demonstrate that the extended SLEUTH UGM could be a valuable tool for sustainable urban and environmental planning and management in developing regions where environmental protection should be considered as one of the major land-use objectives in their rapid urbanization process.

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“…These principles are comprehensively investigated in Williams (2010), Guy and Marvin (1999), Jenks et al (1996), Holden (2004), Hoyer and Holden (2003Holden ( , 2001, Mclaren (1992) and Ban-ister (1992), who discuss this process as an interaction between social and technical solutions for sustainable cities. Sustainable settlements are developed based on some important criteria: high density and integrated land use (Kenworthy, 2006); the diversity of activities (Jacobs, 2002); mixed land use or heterogeneous zoning; compactness of built environment (Rudolf et al, 2017); sustainable transportation (Acioly, 2000); passive solar design through the orientation of construction and the density of construction; and "greening" of the city, where greening enables the integration of society with nature (Dagmar et al, 2017).…”

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Construction coefficient in the settlements of Gllogoc Municipality (Republic of Kosova)

Çela

Ramadani²

2019

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series

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This paper evaluates the built area within “cadastral zones” (subdivisions of municipalities) in order to identify the expansion tendencies of settlements, with the aim of contributing to preventing future uncontrolled developments. Demographic growth always needs more construction so it is important to provide a spatial analysis of land use. The paper is focused on the expansion dynamics of built areas within cadastral zones due to rapid social and economic changes. The lack of researches for the Drenica region has affected land use, which has been unplanned and not-to-standard, and has not preserved agricultural land. In the last two decades – since 1999 – there has been considerable growth in the construction sector across all of Kosovo. Although, according to the spatial plan, property owners have the right to develop and use their own property in their own best interests, these regulations do not give them the right to work outside the legal framework of the local plan itself. Land use should be in full compliance with spatial plans, both national and local. This study will contribute to the sustainable urbanisation of settlements and preservation of agricultural land. The results of the study will also help to make important decisions for built areas, in also providing necessary recommendations for steps to be taken to have a land use based on common interests.

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Planning for compact urban forms: local growth-management approaches and their evolution over time

Cited by 47 publications

References 48 publications

Beyond the urban-rural dichotomy: Towards a more nuanced analysis of changes in built-up land

Beyond the urban-rural dichotomy: Towards a more nuanced analysis of changes in built-up land

Extending the SLEUTH model to integrate habitat quality into urban growth simulation

Construction coefficient in the settlements of Gllogoc Municipality (Republic of Kosova)

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