Rethinking urban sprawl moving towards sustainable cities
"This report provides a new perspective to the nature of urban sprawl and its causes and environmental, social and economic consequences. This perspective, which is based on the multi-dimensionality of urban sprawl, sets the foundations for the construction of new indicators to measure the vari...
| Corporate Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Paris :
OECD Publishing
[2018]
|
| Subjects: | |
| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009704618406719 |
Table of Contents:
- Executive summary
- The policy challenge of urban sprawl (Urban sprawl is different from urbanisation ; Why is a new perspective on urban sprawl needed? ; How does the new perspective presented in this report help address the policy challenge of urban sprawl? ; Navigation through the report)
- Part 1. Urban sprawl
- definition and measurement: Urban sprawl as a multipdimensional phenomenon (Introduction ; The multiple dimensions of urban sprawl ; Summary)
- Sprawl in OECD urban areas (Introduction ; Background literature ; Data ; Cross-country analyses of urban sprawl indicators ; Country-level analysis ; Summary ; Appendix 3.A. Mathematical exposition of urban sprawl indicators ; Appendix 3.B. Country sheets)
- Part 2. Consequences of urban sprawl and implications for policy makers: Causes and consequences of urban sprawl (Introduction ; Urban sprawl drivers ; Effects of urban sprawl ; Concluding remarks)
- Steering urban development to more sustainable pathways (Introduction ; Taking steps to reverse unsustainable urban development patterns ; Following an integrated approach to make urban development more sustainable ; Conclusions).
