Urban sprawl in Europe : landscapes, land-use change & policy / edited by Chris Couch, Lila Leontidou and Gerhard Petschel-Held.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Couch, Chris, 1946-

Leontidou, Lila.

Petschel-Held, Gerhard.

Series:

Real estate issues (Oxford, England)

Real estate issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--Europe--Growth.

Cities and towns.

Urban policy.

Europe.

Growth.

Urbanization--Europe.

Urbanization.

City planning--Europe.

City planning.

Urban policy--Europe.

Physical Description:

xix, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2007.

Contents:

Introduction : definitions, theories and methods of comparative analysis / Chris Couch, Lila Leontidou, Karl-Olov Arnstberg

Sprawl in European cities : the comparative background / Diana Reckien, Jay Karecha

Infrastructure-related urban sprawl : mega-events and hybrid peri-urban landscapes in southern Europe / Lila Leontidou ... [et al.]

Sprawl in the post-socialist city : the changing economic and institutional context of central and eastern European cities / Natalia Pichler-Milanovia, Malgorzata Gutry-Korycka, Dieter Rink

Decline and sprawl : urban sprawl is not confined to expanding city regions / Henning Nuissl ... [et al.]

No place like second home : weekends, holidays, retirement and urban sprawl / Karl-Olov Arnstberg, Inger Bergstrom

Modelling urban sprawl : actors and mathematics / Matthias Lüdeke, Diana Reckien, Gerhard Petschel-Held

Lines of defence : policies for the control of urban sprawl / Henning Nuissl, Chris Couch

Urban sprawl and hybrid cityscapes in Europe : comparisons, theory construction and conclusions / Lila Leontidou, Chris Couch.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781405139175

140513917X

OCLC:

87023018

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