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Increasing awareness of the negative effects of urban sprawl has made sprawl a topic of great debate. However, higher efforts are needed to protect forests, agricultural lands, and other open spaces from urban sprawl. This study compares patterns of accelerated increase in sprawl in the Montreal and Quebec Census Metropolitan Areas in Canada with the Zurich metropolitan area in Switzerland between...
Growing urban sprawl is a serious concern worldwide for a number of environmental and economic reasons and is a major challenge on the way to sustainable land use. To address this increasing problem, there is an urgent need for quantitative measurement. Every meaningful method to measure the degree of urban sprawl needs to be based on a clear definition of “urban sprawl” disentangling causes and consequences...
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