The Size and Shape of Phoenix’s Urban Fringe

Gober, Patricia; Burns, Elizabeth

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“…The average distance between the location of the two typologies began to increase during the second half of the twentieth century, however, reaching 2.5 miles by the 2000s. These findings parallel those of Gober and Burns [24] and Atkinson-Palombo [25], who both find that multifamily housing on average trails single-family housing in its geographic relationship to the suburban edge.…”

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confidence: 79%

“…San Antonio solidified its position as a booming city between the decades of the 1990s and 2000s, when the number of completions increased by 164%. San Antonio's centrifugal growth patterns ( Figure 3) align with findings from multiple authors, including Gober and Burns [24], who examined housing completions at the urban-fringe in Phoenix between 1990 and 1998. Their work revealed that centrifugal development proceeded quickly, at a rate of up to half a mile per year, or approximately 4 miles during the study period.…”

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confidence: 73%

“…In an attempt to more fully understand the centrifugal growth in the city, the team calculated the average distance from the city center, building on work from Gober and Burns [24] and Atkinson-Palombo [25]. This involved using the ArcGIS near tool to calculate the distance from the center of each building in the data set to the center of downtown's Main Plaza, widely recognized as the heart of the historic city.…”

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“…Gober and Burns [24] extend this line of research, examining the size and shape of the 'urban fringe,' or outer edge of development, in Phoenix between the years 1990 and 1998. They specifically measure the distance between housing completions at the periphery and those at the metropolitan center.…”

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San Antonio 360: The Rise and Decline of the Concentric City 1890–2010

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This paper catalogs the suburban expansion of San Antonio, Texas by decade between the years 1890 and 2009, a time frame that saw the city reorganize its morphological structure four times. The city inhabited a 36-square mile grid until the late nineteenth century; expanded radially along streetcar lines during the early twentieth century; grew concentrically along automotive ring roads during the mid-twentieth century; and has assumed a polycentric organization within the past two decades. This research places San Antonio's recent demographic and geographic boom into historical perspective, utilizing construction completions in host Bexar County to answer the following question: how did the form, location, and type of suburban growth shift over 120 years? The research reveals three trends: first, that historically concentric growth patterns began to assume a polycentric configuration in the late twentieth century; second, that patterns of centrifugal expansion began to accelerate dramatically during the same time period; and third, that the relative increase of multifamily completions has surpassed that of single-family completions in five of the last six decades. These findings suggest that the City of San Antonio, in order to establish a sustainable growth model, must prioritize the opportunities and constraints associated with polycentric suburban expansion.

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“…Metropolitan Phoenix experienced exponential population growth between 1992 and 2000, mainly from an influx of new migrants attracted by booming economic opportunities in the valley (Gober and Burns 2002). Albuquerque grew rapidly, although population within city boundaries slowed and shifted to unincorporated Valencia County, partially due to the city's annexation policy (discussed below).…”

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Land fragmentation under rapid urbanization: A cross-site analysis of Southwestern cities

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Explosive population growth and increasing demand for rural homes and lifestyles fueled exurbanization and urbanization in the western USA over the past decades. Using National Land Cover Data we analyzed land fragmentation trends from 1992 to 2001 in five southwestern cities associated with Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites. We observed two general fragmentation trends: expansion of the urbanized area leading to Urban Ecosyst (2011) fragmentation in the exurban and peri-urban regions and decreased fragmentation associated with infill in the previously developed urban areas. We identified three fragmentation patterns, riparian, polycentric, and monocentric, that reflect the recent western experience with growth and urbanization. From the literature and local expert opinion, we identified five relevant drivers -water provisioning, population dynamics, transportation, topography, and institutions -that shape land use decision-making and fragmentation in the southwest. In order to assess the relative importance of each driver on urbanization, we linked historical site-specific driver information obtained through literature reviews and archival analyses to the observed fragmentation patterns. Our work highlights the importance of understanding land use decision-making drivers in concert and throughout time, as historic decisions leave legacies on landscapes that continue to affect land form and function, a process often forgotten in a region and era of blinding change.

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Does the ecological concept of disturbance have utility in urban social–ecological–technological systems?

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Hale

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Ecosyst Health Sustain

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The ecological concept of disturbance has scarcely been applied in urban systems except in the erroneous but commonplace assumption that urbanization itself is a disturbance and cities are therefore perennially disturbed systems. We evaluate the usefulness of the concept in urban ecology by exploring how a recent conceptual framework for disturbance (Peters et al. 2011, Ecosphere, 2, art 81) applies to these social-ecological-technological systems (SETS). Case studies, especially from the Long-Term Ecological Research sites of Baltimore and Phoenix, are presented to show the applicability of the framework for disturbances to different elements of these systems at different scales. We find that the framework is easily adapted to urban SETS and that incorporating social and technological drivers and responders can contribute additional insights to disturbance research beyond urban systems.

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The Size and Shape of Phoenix’s Urban Fringe

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San Antonio 360: The Rise and Decline of the Concentric City 1890–2010

San Antonio 360: The Rise and Decline of the Concentric City 1890–2010

Land fragmentation under rapid urbanization: A cross-site analysis of Southwestern cities

Does the ecological concept of disturbance have utility in urban social–ecological–technological systems?

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