Policies of urban containment are widely used in land-use planning and as a means of
reducing urban sprawl and of preserving farmland. This paper reviews the current state of …

In the last decade, the peri-urbanization literature has attracted a lot of attention and many
scholars have tried to examine these areas from different dimensions, leading to a …

This book provides a comprehensive discussion on urban growth and sprawl, and how they
can be analyzed using remote sensing imageries. It compiles views of numerous …

Conceptual ambiguity of sprawl and lack of consensus among researchers have made the
measurement of urban sprawl very difficult, especially from remote sensing data. There are …

The public sector in the United States has responded to growing concern about the social
and environmental costs of sprawling development patterns by creating a wide range of …

Sprawl has been loosely defined as dispersed and inefficient urban growth. We propose a
series of five indicators that examine the per capita consumption of land taken in new …

Although sprawl is a growing national debate, there have been few efforts to measure or
monitor changes in degree of sprawl over time. By using a methodology that employs …

Researchers have responded to urban sprawl, congestion, and pollution by assessing
alternatives such as smart growth, new urbanism, and transit-oriented development …

Partly in response to the country's expanding networks of roads and increasing reliance on
the automobile, population began shifting from cities to suburbs before World War II …

Thirteen states in the United States have adopted state growth management legislation that
aims to preserve environmentally sensitive areas, improve the quality of urban areas, and …