Urban Sprawl in Europe

Urban Sprawl in Europe
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296
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9780470692066
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Новые поступления академической литературы издательства Wiley

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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 (viadistributed 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...

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