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Informationen zum Autor Chris Couch is Professor of Urban Planning; and Head of Planning and Housing Studies - Liverpool John Mores University Dr Lila Leontidou is a Professor of Geography - Hellenic Open University and University of the Aegean Dr Gerhard Petschel-Held was formerly based at the Institute of the Sociology of Spatial Planning - Vienna University of Technology Klappentext Urban sprawl is one of the most important types of land-use changes currently affecting Europe. It increasingly creates major impacts on the environment (via surface sealing, emissions by transport and ecosystem fragmentation); on the social structure of an area (by segregation, lifestyle changes and neglecting urban centres); and on the economy (via distributed production, land prices, and issues of scale). Urban Sprawl in Europe: landscapes, land-use change & policy explains the nature and dynamics of urban sprawl. The book is written in three parts. Part I considers contemporary definitions, theories and trends in European urban sprawl. In part II authors draw upon experiences from across Europe to consider urban sprawl from a number of perspectives: Infrastructure-related sprawl, such as can be seen around Athens; Sprawl in the post-socialist city, as typified by Warsaw, Leipzig and Ljubljana; Decline and sprawl, where a comparative analysis of Liverpool and Leipzig shows that sprawl is not confined to expanding cities; Sprawl based on the development of second homes as found in Sweden, Austria and elsewhere. In part III a formal qualitative model of sprawl is developed. Policies for the control of urban sprawl and the roles of different stakeholders are considered. Finally, a concluding chapter raises questions about the nature and dynamics of these new urban landscapes and their sustainability. Zusammenfassung Reports new research and provides a thorough discussion of theory and policy * Combines development of theory around the causes and consequences of sprawl with existing policy and authors' own proposals for new policy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors xiii Preface xvii Acknowledgments xx Part I Theory and Method 1 1 Introduction: Definitions, Theories and Methods of Comparative Analysis 3 Chris Couch, Lila Leontidou and Karl-Olov Arnstberg Background 3 The origins of suburbia and urban sprawl in Europe and the USA 6 Some differences between Europe and the USA 15 The development of theory and policy in Europe 20 Methodology 28 The structure of the book 32 Note 34 References 34 2 Sprawl in European Cities: The Comparative Background 39 Diana Reckien and Jay Karecha Urban trends in Europe 39 Urban trends in the case study cities 45 Conclusions 64 Appendix: Patterns of growth and sprawl across European cities 65 References 67 Part II Types of Urban Sprawl in Europe 69 3 Infrastructure-related Urban Sprawl: Mega-events and Hybrid Peri-urban Landscapes in Southern Europe 71 Lila Leontidou, Alex Afouxenidis, Elias Kourliouros and Emmanuel Marmaras Introduction: theory and method 71 'Astyphilia' and popular spontaneous suburbanisation until the 1970s 73 Modernism and urban land policy after EU accession 80 Toward the entrepreneurial city and post-Olympic landscapes 87 Mega-events and Mediterranean urban futures 94 Notes 96 References 98 4 Sprawl in the Post-Socialist City: The Changing Economic and Institutional Context of Central and Eastern European Cities 102 Nataša Pichler-Milanovic, Ma³gorzata Gutry-Korycka and Dieter Rink Socialist cities in Central and Eastern Europe 102 Transition reforms in Central and Eastern...
