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  • 标题:Toward a New Urban Cycle? A Closer Look to Sprawl, Demographic Transitions and the Environment in Europe
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  • 作者:Daniela Smiraglia ; Luca Salvati ; Gianluca Egidi
  • 期刊名称:Land
  • 印刷版ISSN:2073-445X
  • 出版年度:2021
  • 卷号:10
  • 期号:2
  • 页码:127
  • DOI:10.3390/land10020127
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:MDPI, Open Access Journal
  • 摘要:Urban growth is a largely debated issue in social science. Specific forms of metropolitan expansion—including sprawl—involve multiple and fascinating research dimensions, making mixed (quali-quantitative) analysis of this phenomenon particularly complex and challenging at the same time. Urban sprawl has attracting the attention of multidisciplinary studies defining nature, dynamics, and consequences that dispersed low-density settlements are having on biophysical and socioeconomic contexts worldwide. The present commentary provides a brief overview on nature and implications of the latent relationship between sprawl, demographic dynamics, and background socio-environmental contexts with special focus on Europe. Empirical evidence supports the idea that spatial planning should cope more effectively with the increasing environmental and socioeconomic exposure of European regions to sprawl and demographic transitions, being progressively far away from a traditional urban cycle with sequential waves of urbanization, suburbanization, counter-urbanization, and re-urbanization. Growing socio-ecological vulnerability of metropolitan regions was evaluated based on a literature review demonstrating how a better comprehension of the intimate linkage between long-term demographic dynamics and urban cycles is necessary to inform fine-tuned policies controlling sprawl and promoting a sustainable management of peri-urban land.
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