منابع مشابه
MEASURING ACCESSIBILITY AS A SP AnAL INDICA TOR OF SPRAWL
ABSTRA CT: Suburban sprawl has often been identified as low-density and dispersed development hat requires greater automobile vehicle miles to be traveled for daily activities thereby resulting in problematic environmental and social impacts. This paper attempts to empirically test one of the spatial characteristics of sprawl by measuring the actual road distance of residential housing units to...
متن کاملSprawl and Growth Management
different projects. Individually, one person’s sprawl may be another person’s beloved “move up” to a new home or new job. The nature of sprawl strongly reflects the psychology of the individual. It proceeds at a “just one more won’t matter” rate that is difficult to address at the time approval for each project is given. Additionally, the costs of sprawl are perceived to be physical or monetary...
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Suburban sprawl, a relatively recent phenomenon, is among the most important urban policy issues facing contemporary cities. To date, a well-accepted rationale has not been settled on for explaining and managing the causes of sprawl. Our contention is that consideration of geography is essential—that geographical explanations offer much potential in informing the debate about sprawl. Similarly,...
متن کاملUrban sprawl and public health.
When regular steam ferry service between Brooklyn and Manhattan began in 1814, the first commuter suburb became possible. 1 Suburbs continued to develop slowly but steadily during the 19th and early 20th centuries, thanks to transportation advances such as commuter trains and streetcars, the innovations of early real estate developers, and the urge to live in pastoral tranquility rather than in...
متن کاملMeasuring Sprawl
Suburban sprawl is one of the most avidly followed urban issues in the United States today. However, despite the level of attention that is afforded sprawl, their remains relatively little understanding of its determinants and its constitution. Previous attempts to measure sprawl have focused largely on costing out its impacts rather than quantifying its characteristics. Also, the characterizat...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Transport and Land Use
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1938-7849
DOI: 10.5198/jtlu.v1i1.30