Settlement models, land use and visibility in rural landscapes: Two case studies in Greece

Sevenant, Marjanne; Antrop, Marc

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2006.09.004

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“…As a result, they caused more dispersed rural building patterns (Fig. 3), which led to negative ecological consequences, such as landscape fragmentation (Miller et al 1996;Gonzalez-Abraham et al 2007b;Sevenant and Antrop 2007). From this point of view, it shows why environmental variables explained roads better than rural buildings.…”

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“…In addition to socioeconomic and cultural characteristics (Buntgen et al 2006), natural factors, including topography (Turner et al 1996), soil (Dale et al 1993), water and lakes (Schnaiberg et al 2002;Walsh et al 2003), visibility (Sevenant and Antrop 2007), and land cover (Hawbaker et al 2005;Martinuzzi et al 2007), largely control their densities and patterns at the regional and landscape scales (Banaszuk and Wysocka 1998;GonzalezAbraham et al 2007b;Jenerette et al 2007). Recently, roads and buildings have increased not only in urban and suburban areas, but also in rural areas with higher ecological values (Meigs and Sauber 2000;Schnaiberg et al 2002;GonzalezAbraham et al 2007b;Sevenant and Antrop 2007). Hence, understanding the temporal and spatial relationships between environmental factors and roads or buildings in rural areas is very helpful for the planning of roads and rural buildings and the restoration of the disturbed ecosystems.…”

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The changes of densities and patterns of roads and rural buildings: a case study on Dongzhi Yuan of the Loess Plateau, China

Wang

2009

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Roads and buildings are considered as primary causes of rural landscape changes. In this study, linear regression models were used to analyze the dynamic influences of environmental factors and variables on roads and rural buildings from 1979 to 2005 in Dongzhi Yuan (tableland) of the Loess Plateau, China. The relationship between roads and rural buildings and their effects on Dongzhi Yuan are discussed also. The results showed that three environmental factors (topography, land cover, and development level) explained roads better than rural buildings referring densities and patterns. The environmental variables significantly related to roads have decreased, whereas those related to rural buildings

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The changes of densities and patterns of roads and rural buildings: a case study on Dongzhi Yuan of the Loess Plateau, China

Wang

2009

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“…The study of the changes in RSL has a long history that has focused predominantly on the size, pattern, and spatial distribution [6,12,16,17] of rural land consolidation [18][19][20] as well as sustainable management [21,22]. Recent studies have highlighted the driving forces behind rural settlement dynamics and have found that the distances to cities, roads, and water bodies as well as various terrain features have led to changes in the spatiotemporal distribution of RSL [2,[21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28].…”

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“…In fact, for a long time, it was generally believed that RSL expansion was caused by rural population growth. In addition, although some research has been conducted on the coupling relationship between RSL and the RRP [17], analysis of the driving factors has been performed primarily at the national scale rather than at the watershed scale, especially in rural areas with oases.…”

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Spatiotemporal Changes in Rural Settlement Land and Rural Population in the Middle Basin of the Heihe River, China

2016

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Abstract:Understanding the relationship between the spatiotemporal expansion of rural settlement land and the variation of rural population is the foundation of rational and specific planning for sustainable development. Based on the integration of Landsat TM, ETM+, and OLI images and demographic data, using mathematical models, landscape indexes, and a decoupling model, the spatiotemporal changes of the rural settlement land area and its decoupling relationship with the rural registered population were analyzed for the middle basin of the Heihe River in China. During the period 1986-2014, the following changes occurred: (1) The study area experienced increases of 124.94%, 55.16%, and 1.56% in rural settlement land area, number of patches, and rural registered population, respectively; (2) Edge-expansion, dispersion, and urban encroachment were the dominant patterns of dynamic changes in the studied rural settlement land. Among these, edge-expansion was the most prevalent development pattern; it contributed more than half of the total increase in the number of patches and the total area growth; (3) The annual growth rate of the rural registered population increased from 0.7% in 1986-2002 to´0.5% in [2002][2003][2004][2005][2006][2007][2008][2009][2010][2011][2012][2013][2014]. By that time the rural settlement land area had undergone a gentle increase from 3.4% to 3.6%. Generally, the rural registered population and rural settlement land has experienced a shift from weakly decoupled in 1986-2009 to strongly decoupled in 2009-2014; (4) From 1986 to 2014, rural urbanization and modernization were the main causes that led to the decline in the rural registered population; however, economic growth promoted the expansion of rural settlement land during this same period. We believe that with the rapid development of urbanization, the decoupling relationship between the rural settlement land area and the reduction in the rural registered population cannot be completely reversed in the short term. It is recommended that the government should enhance the role of planning rural settlement land during the process of urbanization.

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“…Therewith, the above definitions may either guide us towards a subjective 'landscape' notion or towards an abstract articulate that the landscape is a 'place' , where 'place' could be defined by various researchers on the one hand as 'a personal connection created from experience, perception and value of the environment' (Green, 1999;Cheng et al, 2003;Sevenant and Antrop, 2007;Beza, 2010) or one's 'particular fusion of landscape and imagination' on the other hand (Ryden, 1993). Even if these landscape definitions insist on theorizing the way of seeing the land, by neglecting the social relations upon it, they dissociated the term landscape from its pure environmental notion, associating it with the 'place' notion.…”

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The Aesthetic Value of Socio-Cultural Identities and the Cultural Dimension of the Landscape

Mavromatidis¹

2012

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This paper summarizes an individual theoretical study on how the landscape could be shaped by economic globalization and political restructuring. Providing a socio-cultural approach to the landscape notion I am trying to discover through the international literature the subjective dimension on landscape definition, in order to understand its 'cultural dimension'. In this paper, the notion of 'virtual landscape' is introduced in order to investigate the incoherence that exists in the nowadays megacities regarding their social reality and their iconic existence through architecture and urban planning. In addition, it is also explored in theory how an ideological turn is re-inforced through political orientation focusing on 'virtual landscape' images in order to obtain a favorable publicity in a contemporary context of 'globalised cities' consisting in the elimination of the 'cultural landscape'. Therefore, this contribution has as main objective to define, negotiate and start the debate on radical socio-cultural approaches of landscape notion in the nowadays 'megacities', inside a strict capitalist context.

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Settlement models, land use and visibility in rural landscapes: Two case studies in Greece

Cited by 102 publications

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The changes of densities and patterns of roads and rural buildings: a case study on Dongzhi Yuan of the Loess Plateau, China

The changes of densities and patterns of roads and rural buildings: a case study on Dongzhi Yuan of the Loess Plateau, China

Spatiotemporal Changes in Rural Settlement Land and Rural Population in the Middle Basin of the Heihe River, China

The Aesthetic Value of Socio-Cultural Identities and the Cultural Dimension of the Landscape

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