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Urban Sprawl. How Useful Is This Concept?

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  • Gunther Maier
  • Gerald Franz
  • Pia Schrock

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This paper discusses the question whether the city of Vienna, Austria, is experiencing urban sprawl. We will critically evaluate the concept of urban sprawl and analyze its relationship to regular forms of urban development. Particular emphasis will be given to quantitative measures of urban change that might be able to identify key factors of urban sprawl. These measures are then applied to empirical data for the city of Vienna, Austria

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  • Gunther Maier & Gerald Franz & Pia Schrock, 2006. "Urban Sprawl. How Useful Is This Concept?," ERSA conference papers ersa06p105, European Regional Science Association.
    • Handle: RePEc:wiw:wiwrsa:ersa06p105
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    1. Julia Lechner & Gunther Maier, 2009. "Sprawl or No Sprawl? - A Quantitative Analysis for the City of Vienna," SRE-Disc sre-disc-2009_03, Institute for Multilevel Governance and Development, Department of Socioeconomics, Vienna University of Economics and Business.
    2. Ioannis Vardopoulos & Sophia Ioannides & Marios Georgiou & Irene Voukkali & Luca Salvati & Yannis E. Doukas, 2023. "Shaping Sustainable Cities: A Long-Term GIS-Emanated Spatial Analysis of Settlement Growth and Planning in a Coastal Mediterranean European City," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(14), pages 1-24, July.
    3. Zolnik, Edmund J., 2012. "The costs of sprawl for private-vehicle commuters," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 20(1), pages 23-30.
    4. Edmund J Zolnik, 2011. "The Effect of Sprawl on Private-Vehicle Commuting Outcomes," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 43(8), pages 1875-1893, August.

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