Environmental Impacts of Urban Sprawl: A Survey of the Literature and Proposed Research Agenda

By Michael P. Johnson. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change

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Transportation and the environment. (2011, background): “About a century later, the widespread use of the car allowed the further expansion of the same cities (in Western countries) through sprawl, which results in specific environmental impacts (28).”
More evidence on the spatial scale of cities (2005, background): “Certainly, a similar discussion can be made as to under-pricing of agricultural land in land markets— prices that fail to internalize environmental costs of urbanization, specifically hydrological sustainability and ecosystem function damages [ 10 ].”
Fractal dimension versus density of the built-up surfaces in the periphery of Brussels (2007, neutral): “The recent explosive urban growth has led to be particularly interested in urban peripheries, that is to say mixed areas where urban and rural spaces interfere and compete (see e.g. Johnson, 2001; Longley, Batty and Chin, 2002; Caruso, 2002; Cavailhès et al., 2002 and 2004).”
The potential effect of national growth-management policy on urban sprawl and the depletion of open spaces and farmland (2004, methodology): “By changing the spatial morphology of urban growth, they have in practice adopted growth-management tools in order to prevent the continuation of urban sprawl (DLCD, 1992; Weitz and Moore, 1998; Nelson, 1999; Torrens and Alberti, 2000; Johnson, 2001).”
Measuring urban sprawl and exploring the role planning plays: A shanghai case study (2017, neutral): “…recent decades, planners have widely studied and documented the socio-economic costs and the negative impact of urban sprawl such as increasing loss of land resources, environmental degradation, and the growing lack of accessibility to jobs, etc. (Burchell et al., 1998; Kahn, 2000; Johnson, 2001).”
Characterizing urban sprawl using multi-stage remote sensing images and landscape metrics (2006, background): “Although a general consensus regarding the definition and impact of urban sprawl has not been achieved (Johnson, 2001), urban sprawl is often referred to as uncontrolled, scattered suburban development that increases traffic problems, depletes local resources, and destroys open space (Peiser, 2001).”