Urban sprawl (also known as suburban sprawl or urban encroachment) is defined as "the spreading of urban developments (such as houses, dense multi family...
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increase density and reduce urban sprawl. While urban sprawl is an unrestricted way of expanding the limits of a city, urban renewal clears out undeveloped...
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An urban growth boundary, or UGB, is a regional boundary, set in an attempt to control urban sprawl by, in its simplest form, mandating that the area inside...
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Megacity (category Urban studies and planning terminology)
becoming more frequent in smaller cities and rural areas. Urban sprawl, also known as suburban sprawl, is a multifaceted concept, which includes the spreading...
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Greater London Built-up Area (redirect from Greater London Urban Area)
London Urban Area, is a conurbation in south-east England that constitutes the continuous urban sprawl of London, and includes surrounding adjacent urban towns...
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Weighted urban proliferation (WUP) is a method used for measuring urban sprawl. This method, first introduced by Jaeger et al. (2010), calculates and...
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"Urban Sprawl of Major Cities in the Baltic States", www.researchgate.net "The sprawl of Vilnius city – establishment and analysis of growing urban region"...
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Green belt (redirect from Greenbelt sprawl)
they lobbied for a continuous belt (of up to two miles wide) to prevent urban sprawl, beyond which new development could occur. There are fourteen green belt...
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Truganina, Victoria (section Urban sprawl)
Truganina (/ˌtrʌɡəˈnaɪnə/ TRUG-ə-NY-nə) is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 22.4 km (13.9 mi) west of Melbourne's Central Business District...
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Megalopolis (category Urban studies and planning terminology)
William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, "the Sprawl" is a colloquial name for the "Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis" (BAMA), an urban sprawl environment on a...
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