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Land mismatches, urban growth and spatial planning: A contribution to metropolitan sustainability
- 1.0532012 - ÚVGZ 2021 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Egidi, G. - Cividino, S. - Quaranta, G. - Alhuseen, Ahmed - Salvati, L.
Land mismatches, urban growth and spatial planning: A contribution to metropolitan sustainability.
Environmental Impact Assessment Review. Roč. 84, SEP (2020), č. článku 106439. ISSN 0195-9255. E-ISSN 1873-6432
Research Infrastructure: CzeCOS III - 90123
Institutional support: RVO:86652079
Keywords : population-growth * peri-urbanization * sprawl * policy * city * dynamics * patterns * management * expansion * regions * Exurban development, urban form, elasticity * Two-block partial least squares * Mediterranean cities
OECD category: Demography
Impact factor: 4.549, year: 2020
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195925520301505?via%3Dihub#!
The unequal growth of population and buildings in metropolitan regions reflects dispersed urban expansion. This study illustrates an operational framework grounded on a diachronic analysis of urbanization processes in advanced economies that provides a comprehensive evaluation of the mismatch between resident population and building stock. Studying the urban cycle of a European city (Athens, Greece), a mismatch indicator was derived at the municipal level as the elasticity rate of resident population and total building stock changes over 7 time intervals between 1920 and 2010. Results indicate that divergences in population and building stock growth rates increased since the early 1980s. The population-buildings mismatch displays an increasingly asymmetric spatial distribution, evidencing more or less accelerated paths toward dispersed settlements that may outline unsustainable forms of land management. Municipalities with a compact morphology at the beginning of the study period showed a higher rate of self-contained urban expansion than municipalities with more dispersed settlements. A comparative analysis of the impact of town planning on enlarging population-settlement mismatches was finally proposed as a basic knowledge to sustainable land management in (rapidly expanding) metropolitan regions.
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