Sprawl City Coroner

Compact City Replaces Sprawl

The compact, geometrically integrated city can and should replace suburban sprawl as the dominant development pattern in the future. This approach to urban planning and design is well established among proponents of the New Urbanist and Smart Growth movements. However, the more radical scenario I propose in this paper is that the compact city should also replace the high-rise, ultra-high-densit...

Urban Sprawl, Farming Prospects and Sustainability of Yogyakarta City, Indonesia

The objectives of the study are: (1) to analyze the impact of urban sprawl on farmland conversion by using landsat data, (2) to analyze the impact of land conversion on food supply and food security, (3) to understand the prospect of farming activities in the fringe area of Yogyakarta, and (4) to find implication of urban sprawl towards sustainability of Yogyakarta city. The study shows that ur...

Urban Sprawl: A Case Study of Lucknow City

Cities often experience growth either physically, by population, or by a combination of both. Urban sprawl in recent times is a subject of popular debate between policy makers and environmentalists in context of the status of urban people and the state of the human ecology. With the high pace of social and economic development resulting growth of urban population, lack of infrastructure, conges...

The King's Coroner

Study of Effective Factors on Sprawl Growth of City in Tabriz City by Using of Evaluation Models for City Expansion

There is a meaningful relation between city form and level of stableness. Recognition of morphology and explanation of its growth pattern will be an important stage at certainty of city stableness. So, planning politics, guidelines and also designing should be in a way that formation of a city will be as we wish. Among stableness patterns which discussed at the late 20th century, more focus was...