Urban sprawl refers to the low-density expansion of urban areas into surrounding regions, leading to environmental degradation and socio-ecological challenges. AI generated definition based on: Advances in Chem
Rapid urban sprawl in China has caused serious eco-environmental changes, and thus attracted significant attention of the international academic circles. However, the mechanism of influence of urban sprawl on eco-environmental quality has not been addressed adequately. The main objective of this study ...
Urban Sprawl and Ghost Towns: The Impact of Mining on Cities October 09, 2021 Abandoned Gold Mine, Johannesburg, South Africa. Image © Johnny Miller The urban settlements we inhabit today exist in their present form due to a host of reasons. There are cities that have grown due to their...
Urban sprawl has been widely discussed in regard of its economic, political, social and environmental impacts. Consequently, several planning policies have been placed to stop—or at least restrain—sprawling development. However, most of these policies have not been successful at all as anti-sprawl...
An expansive definition of the ecosystem–both natural and human built environment–informs the consequences of urban sprawl in greater scope (see also Lynch 1984). In addition to the natural environmental consequences are those in the built environment of urban sprawl—ecolog...
The negative relationship between city area and UGS quantity in LA cities is most likely a consequence of rapid urbanization, where green spaces on the city peripheries had to give way to urban sprawl26. As a result, there might be particularly little UGS in LA’s informal settlements, which...
Wildfires are a particular threat to houses and lives, often caused by human ignition and facilitated by altered fire regimes where settlements sprawl into fire-dependent ecosystems. The availability of buildings themselves as fuel, along with swiftly moving fire, makes evacuations difficult19,27,28,...
Motorization, as the dominant factor of increases in environmental load from the transport sector, has the characteristics of irreversibility and synergism with urban sprawl. To deal with such issues, five topics are introduced: 1) induced vehicle traffic due to road improvement, 2) the relationship...
the smart growth strategy was first proposed as an alternative tourban sprawl. Hence, the strategy puts an emphasis on the smart use of the existing urban areas and the slowing down of the spatial expansion of cities. The location efficient strategy likewise emphasizes the possibility of in-fill...
Urbansprawl- The urbansprawl project provides an open source framework for assessing urban sprawl using open data. It uses OpenStreetMap (OSM) data to calculate its sprawling indices, divided in Accessibility, Land use mix, and Dispersion. ...