Urban Sprawl in Europe: Landscape, Land-Use Change & Policy Contributor(s): Couch, Chris (Editor), Petschel-Held, Gerhard (Editor), Leontidou, Lila (Editor) |
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ISBN: 140513917X ISBN-13: 9781405139175 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $132.95 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2007 Annotation: Alison Hansel is an avid Harry Potter fan and a popular knitting blogger whose daily missives can be read on the blue blog at alison.knitsmiths.us. The online go-to gal for Harry Potter tribute knitting, she has published patterns in the popular online knitting magazines "MagKnits" and "Knitty." |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development - Social Science | Sociology - Urban |
Dewey: 307.760 |
LCCN: 2007004386 |
Series: Real Estate Issues |
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6.76" W x 9.58" (1.41 lbs) 304 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Cultural Region - Central Europe - Cultural Region - Western Europe - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Urban sprawl is one of the most important types of land-use changes currently affecting Europe. It increasingly creates major impacts on the environment (via surface sealing, emissions by transport and ecosystem fragmentation); on the social structure of an area (by segregation, lifestyle changes and neglecting urban centres); and on the economy (via distributed production, land prices, and issues of scale). Urban Sprawl in Europe: landscapes, land-use change & policy explains the nature and dynamics of urban sprawl. The book is written in three parts. Part I considers contemporary definitions, theories and trends in European urban sprawl. In part II authors draw upon experiences from across Europe to consider urban sprawl from a number of perspectives: * Infrastructure-related sprawl, such as can be seen around Athens; * Sprawl in the post-socialist city, as typified by Warsaw, Leipzig and Ljubljana; * Decline and sprawl, where a comparative analysis of Liverpool and Leipzig shows that sprawl is not confined to expanding cities; * Sprawl based on the development of second homes as found in Sweden, Austria and elsewhere. In part III a formal qualitative model of sprawl is developed. Policies for the control of urban sprawl and the roles of different stakeholders are considered. Finally, a concluding chapter raises questions about the nature and dynamics of these new urban landscapes and their sustainability. |