Urbanization on the US landscape: looking ahead in the 21st century

Alig, Ralph J.; Kline, Jeffrey D.; Lichtenstein, Mark E.

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2003.07.004

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“…Of primary concern are residential lawn and yard care, due to the apparently widespread practice of excessively fertilizing and irrigating turfgrass (18)(19)(20). Such behaviors are concerning because lawns not only cover a larger extent of land than any other irrigated crop in the United States (19,20), but also are expected to expand in coming decades (21). Thus, the potential homogenization of residential lawn care has emerged as a major concern for carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and water flows (22)(23)(24).…”

Section: Sustainability Lawn Care and Urban Ecological Homogenizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing the homogenization of urban land management with an application to US residential lawn care

Polsky

Grove

Knudson

et al. 2014

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Changes in land use, land cover, and land management present some of the greatest potential global environmental challenges of the 21st century. Urbanization, one of the principal drivers of these transformations, is commonly thought to be generating land changes that are increasingly similar. An implication of this multiscale homogenization hypothesis is that the ecosystem structure and function and human behaviors associated with urbanization should be more similar in certain kinds of urbanized locations across biogeophysical gradients than across urbanization gradients in places with similar biogeophysical characteristics. This paper introduces an analytical framework for testing this hypothesis, and applies the framework to the case of residential lawn care. This set of land management behaviors are often assumednot demonstrated-to exhibit homogeneity. Multivariate analyses are conducted on telephone survey responses from a geographically stratified random sample of homeowners (n = 9,480), equally distributed across six US metropolitan areas. Two behaviors are examined: lawn fertilizing and irrigating. Limited support for strong homogenization is found at two scales (i.e., multi-and single-city; 2 of 36 cases), but significant support is found for homogenization at only one scale (22 cases) or at neither scale (12 cases). These results suggest that US lawn care behaviors are more differentiated in practice than in theory. Thus, even if the biophysical outcomes of urbanization are homogenizing, managing the associated sustainability implications may require a multiscale, differentiated approach because the underlying social practices appear relatively varied. The analytical approach introduced here should also be productive for other facets of urban-ecological homogenization.sustainability science | land-change science | urban ecology | private land management

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Section: Sustainability Lawn Care and Urban Ecological Homogenizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing the homogenization of urban land management with an application to US residential lawn care

Polsky

Grove

Knudson

et al. 2014

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

165

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“…For centuries, cities were compact with high population densities, with limited physical extents; this trend has been reversed over the last 30 years with urban areas that are nowadays expanding on average twice as fast than their populations (Seto et al 2012). For the United States, a >30 % of increase of the amount of land devoted to urban and built-up uses between 1982 and 1997 was noted (Alig et al 2004).…”

Section: Agriculture and Urbanization: Matrix Competitorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Anthropogenic Effects in Landscapes: Historical Context and Spatial Pattern

Bogaert

Vranken

André

2014

Biocultural Landscapes

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Bio-cultural landscapes are characterized by anthropogenic pattern features, of which the measurement constitutes a key step in landscape analysis. Metrics and strategies for this measurement of anthropogenic patterns and their dynamics are discussed, considering the pattern/process paradigm, the patchcorridor-matrix model and the complementarity of landscape composition and configuration as conceptual benchmarks. Historically, noticeable anthropogenic effects are accepted to have appeared in landscapes after the invention of agriculture and further trends of landscape change could be linked to the development of agriculture. Through time, a sequence of landscape dynamics with three stages is expected, in which a natural landscape matrix is initially substituted by an agricultural one; urban patch types will later on dominate the matrix as a consequence of ongoing urbanization. The importance of the development of agriculture and its productivity for the evolution of settlements, villages and cities is emphasized. Anthropogenic change of landscapes confirms the status of geographical space as a limited resource.

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“…Alig et al (2004) tested this theory using regression analysis in the case of urban land on US landscape. In this study, we tested this theory in the case of urban land in Beijing using regression models, and the economic and demographic variables are used as proxies for rents from urban land.…”

Section: Regression Analysis Based On the Land Rent Maximization Theorymentioning

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Monitoring and predicting land use change in Beijing using remote sensing and GIS

Wu¹,

Li²,

Wang³

et al. 2006

Landscape and Urban Planning

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Rapid land use change has taken place in many mega cities of China such as Beijing over the past two decades. In this paper, land use change dynamics were investigated by the combined use of satellite remote sensing, geographic information systems (GIS). The results indicated that there had been a notable and uneven urban growth and a major loss of cropland loss between 1986 and 2001. Most of the urban growth and loss of agriculture land occurred in inner and outer suburbs. Land use change was projected for the next 20 years using Markov chains and regression analyses. The further integration of remote sensing and GIS technologies with Markov model and regression model was found to be useful for describing, analyzing and predicting the process of land use change.

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Urbanization on the US landscape: looking ahead in the 21st century

Cited by 405 publications

References 22 publications

Assessing the homogenization of urban land management with an application to US residential lawn care

Assessing the homogenization of urban land management with an application to US residential lawn care

Anthropogenic Effects in Landscapes: Historical Context and Spatial Pattern

Monitoring and predicting land use change in Beijing using remote sensing and GIS

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