Urban sprawl and growth management - drivers, impacts and responses in selected European and US cities

TY - JOUR

T1 - Urban sprawl and growth management - drivers, impacts and responses in selected European and US cities

AU - Fertner, Christian

AU - Jørgensen, Gertrud

AU - Nielsen, Thomas Alexander Sick

AU - Nilsson, Kjell Svenne Bernhard

PY - 2016

Y1 - 2016

N2 - Urban growth management has become a common term to circumscribe strategies and tools to regulate urban land use in metropolitan areas. It is particularly used to counteract negative impacts of urban sprawl but also to frame future urban development. We discuss recent challenges of urban growth in 6 European and 2 US American city-regions. The paper compares the urban development focusing on a quantification of drivers and effects of urban growth and a qualitative analysis of the applied urban growth management tools. We build our analysis on findings from the EU-FP6 project PLUREL. The cities have different success in dealing with urban growth pressure - some can accommodate most growth in existing urban areas and densify, others expand or sprawl. Urban growth management is no guarantee to contain urban growth, but the case studies offer some innovative ways how to deal with particular challenges.

AB - Urban growth management has become a common term to circumscribe strategies and tools to regulate urban land use in metropolitan areas. It is particularly used to counteract negative impacts of urban sprawl but also to frame future urban development. We discuss recent challenges of urban growth in 6 European and 2 US American city-regions. The paper compares the urban development focusing on a quantification of drivers and effects of urban growth and a qualitative analysis of the applied urban growth management tools. We build our analysis on findings from the EU-FP6 project PLUREL. The cities have different success in dealing with urban growth pressure - some can accommodate most growth in existing urban areas and densify, others expand or sprawl. Urban growth management is no guarantee to contain urban growth, but the case studies offer some innovative ways how to deal with particular challenges.

KW - Land use and management

KW - urban sprawl

KW - GIS

KW - land use change

KW - Europe

KW - US

KW - cities

KW - Urban planning

KW - growth management

KW - regional planning

KW - urban growth, spatial planning, spatial policies

U2 - 10.1186/s40984-016-0022-2

DO - 10.1186/s40984-016-0022-2

M3 - Journal article

SN - 2363-9075

VL - 2

SP - 1

EP - 13

JO - Future Cities & Environment

JF - Future Cities & Environment

M1 - 9

ER -