Sprawl in European urban areas

Poulicos Prastacos; Apostolos Lagarias

doi:10.1117/12.2240734

12 August 2016 Sprawl in European urban areas

Poulicos Prastacos, Apostolos Lagarias

Proceedings Volume 9688, Fourth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2016); 968816 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2240734
Event: Fourth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment, 2016, Paphos, Cyprus

Abstract

In this paper the 2006 edition of the Urban Atlas database is used to tabulate areas of low development density, usually referred to as “sprawl”, for many European cities. The Urban Atlas database contains information on the land use distribution in the 305 largest European cities. Twenty different land use types are recognized, with six of them representing urban fabric. Urban fabric classes are residential areas differentiated by the density of development, which is measured by the sealing degree parameter that ranges from 0% to 100% (non-developed, fully developed). Analysis is performed on the distribution of the middle to low density areas defined as those with sealing degree less than 50%. Seven different country groups in which urban areas have similar sprawl characteristics are identified and some key characteristics of sprawl are discussed. Population of an urban area is another parameter considered in the analysis. Two spatial metrics, average patch size and mean distance to the nearest neighboring patch of the same class, are used to describe proximity/separation characteristics of sprawl in the urban areas of the seven groups.

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Poulicos Prastacos and Apostolos Lagarias "Sprawl in European urban areas", Proc. SPIE 9688, Fourth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2016), 968816 (12 August 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2240734

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