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This digital document is an article from Journal of Economic Issues, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2006. The length of the article is 6560 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Ex-urban sprawl as a factor in traffic fatalities and EMS response times in the southeastern United States.
Author: Thomas E. Lambert
Publication: Journal of Economic Issues (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 40Issue: 4Page: 941(13)

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During Ireland's economic boom the countryexperienceda surge in development and an expansion of Dublin'scommuter belt. Urban Sprawl, Sustainability andTransport Infrastructure became key buzz words forthose concerned about the ever expanding level oflowdensity development in Dublin. This book is a studyofthe impact of such low density development on Dublincity and its implications on the future of the city. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In telephony, especially in North America, an overlay plan is the practice of introducing a new area code by applying it onto a geographic area that is already occupied by one or more existing area codes, resulting in two (or more) area codes serving the same area. Prior to the introduction of overlay plans, the method of introducing new area codes (also known as numbering plan areas or NPAs) in a region was to divide the existing territory of one area code into two (or more) pieces, allowing the more established or developed section to retain the original area code, and changing the numbering space of the other section(s) to have a new area code. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Economic Issues, published by Association for Evolutionary Economics on June 1, 1996. The length of the article is 3223 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Urban sprawl as a path dependent process.
Author: Glen Atkinson
Publication: Journal of Economic Issues (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 1996
Publisher: Association for Evolutionary Economics
Volume: v30Issue: n2Page: p609(7)

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This digital document is an article from The Ohio Journal of Science, published by Ohio Academy of Science on June 1, 2009. The length of the article is 9239 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Using simulation to estimate vehicle emissions in response to urban sprawl within Geauga County, Ohio.(Report)
Author: Timothy J. D. Olney
Publication: The Ohio Journal of Science (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2009
Publisher: Ohio Academy of Science
Volume: 109Issue: 3Page: 52(15)

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This digital document is a journal article from Landscape and Urban Planning, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The island of Puerto Rico has both a high population density and a long history of ineffective land use planning. This study integrates geospatial technology and population census data to understand how people use and develop the lands. We define three new regions for Puerto Rico: Urban (16%), Densely Populated Rural (36%), and Sparsely Populated Rural (48%). Eleven percent of the island is composed of urban/built-up surfaces. A large part of these developments occur in both low-density patterns of construction and sparsely populated neighborhoods. Half of the urban development occurs outside of urban centers. This analysis helps differentiate zones in the landscape with different uses and conditions, identifying not only urban and rural settings, but also the interface where development occurs in a territory dominated by forests and pastures, analogous to a wildland urban interface. The ineffective plan of land development has left a high degree of urban sprawl in 40% of island, where cities and towns appear typically surrounded by sprawl. The San Juan Metropolitan Area is one of the most expanded urbanized areas with a population of 2-2.5 million, comparable with the most sprawled cities of the U.S. mainland. This study reinforces the need for an efficient land use planning, and provides information to support research and planning efforts related to land development and conservation. It represents the first approach integrating satellite imagery with population census data for studying the human environment in the Caribbean. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformation, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Sprawling urban development has emerged as a primary concern of policy makers, land preservationists and both urban and rural communities in developing regions across the globe. For the first time in history, more global residents lived in urban areas than not and the trend to urbanization is in full force at the start of the 21st century. An understanding of the nature and character of urban sprawl is complicated by a failure to satisfactorily define it and by the limitations of measurement techniques designed to characterize complex landscape forms. Like other landscape patterns, the quantification of urban sprawl is highly spatially and temporally scale-dependent. This paper summarizes a recent project to measure urban sprawl in the transboundary region of the Pacific Coast of North America. The metropolitan centers of Portland, OR, Seattle, WA and Vancouver, BC, span two nations, three state/provincial governments and dozens of cities. As a region, this was a global leader in population growth in the 1990s. The study relied on three separate methods - an impervious surface metric, a neighborhood density metric and a building permit metric - for quantifying urban growth. The results provide insight on the strengths and shortcomings of different methods with respect to the challenges posed by data availability and format. Taken together they demonstrate the richer understanding that combined methods may offer in characterizing phenomena as difficult to communicate and agree upon as urban sprawl. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Top Producer, published by Farm Journal Media on January 1, 2003. The length of the article is 546 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Going, going, gone: urban sprawl threatens more prime land.
Author: Kim Bower-Spence
Publication: Top Producer (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2003
Publisher: Farm Journal Media
Page: NA

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This digital document is a journal article from Ecological Economics, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Assessing the economic impacts of urban land use transformation has become complex and acrimonious. Although community planners are beginning to comprehend the economic trade-offs inherent in transforming the urban fringe, they find it increasingly difficult to analyze and assess the trade-offs expediently and in ways that can influence local decision making. New and sophisticated spatial modeling techniques are now being applied to urban systems that can be used for assessing the probable spatial outcomes of given communal policies. Applying an economic impact assessment to the probable spatial patterns can provide to planners the tools needed to quickly assess scenarios for policy formation that might ultimately help inform decision makers. This paper focuses on the theoretical underpinnings and the practical application of an economic impact analysis submodel developed within the Land Use Evolution and Impact Assessment Modeling (LEAM) environment. The conceptual framework of LEAM is described, followed by an application of the model to the assessment of the cost of urban sprawl in Kane County, Illinois. The high spatial resolution of the approach allows for discerning the macro-level implications of micro-level behaviors. The results show that spatially explicit dynamic modeling has various conceptual advantages over other approaches to modeling urban dynamics, both from a theoretical and a practical point of view. However, model validation and the assessment of the uncertainty of large-scale spatial dynamic models deserve considerable future attention. The implications of land use change decisions on individual and communal costs are discussed and ways to improve the methodology are outlined. ... Read more

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Urban sprawl has been one of the major developmentissues in the United States and many other countries.Sprawl affects every aspect of American lifestylesand the debate between sprawling and compactdevelopment has received enormous attention. Thisbook seeks to discover whether compact developmentprovides better urban amenities and quality of lifefor residents by surveying the largest ninety-ninemetropolitan areas in the United States in 2000.Comparisons are drawn between central cities andsuburbs to see how different places offer distinctamenities for their residents. Further questions areexplored to probe the relationship between compactdevelopment, amenities presented, and quality of lifeamong high- and low-density communities. The findingsdemonstrate the importance of compact development toprovide desirable amenities and identify crucialpolicy issues for urban revitalization. This book canincrease the consumer awareness of trade-offs betweendifferent lifestyles and serve as a policy guide forfighting sprawl and building a brighter urban futurein America. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Regional Science and Urban Economics, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This paper analyzes the effect of transport subsidies on the spatial expansion of cities, asking whether such subsidies are a source of undesirable urban sprawl. Even though the cost-reducing effect of transport subsidies is offset by a higher general tax burden (which reduces the demand for space), the analysis shows that subsidies nevertheless lead to spatial expansion of cities. If the transport system exhibits constant returns to scale, the subsidies are inefficient, making the urban expansion they entail undesirable. The paper also studies transport ''system choice,'' with the city portrayed as selecting its transport system from along a continuum of money cost/time cost choices. The analysis shows that subsidies inefficiently bias choice in the direction of a high money cost/low time cost option. Lastly, the paper considers system choice in a city with rich and poor groups, showing that the rich favor a system with a high money cost and low time cost, but that their choice, if implemented, leads to a city whose spatial size is smaller than optimal. Thus, rich control of system choice does not lead to urban sprawl. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Environmental Health Perspectives, published by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences on March 1, 2005. The length of the article is 678 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Urban Sprawl and Public Health: Designing, Planning, and Building for Healthy Communities.
Author: Kenneth Olden
Publication: Environmental Health Perspectives (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2005
Publisher: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Volume: 113Issue: 3Page: A202(1)

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Economic Issues, published by Association for Evolutionary Economics on June 1, 2001. The length of the article is 3775 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Economics of Urban Sprawl: Inefficiency as a Core Feature of Metropolitan Growth.
Author: David H. Ciscel
Publication: Journal of Economic Issues (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2001
Publisher: Association for Evolutionary Economics
Volume: 35Issue: 2Page: 405

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This digital document is a journal article from Land Use Policy, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The debate over the effectiveness of growth-management policies reinforces the importance of empirical studies in this field, which has become not just relevant but also crucial to many places. Israel, through its spatial national-level planning, experienced especially during the 1990s, presents an empirical example that may be used to address a complementary strategy to the one that is most commonly used, as this paper suggests. This strategy is based on an examination of the future potential impact of growth-management tools proposed by national plans on the depletion of open space and farmland versus the consequences expected from the continuation of current trends. Accordingly an appropriate methodology is introduced for implementing this strategy. ... Read more

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Perverse Cities provides a provocative explanation for the persistence of urban sprawl, pointing to flawed public policies and distorted price signals. ... Read more

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This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Urban Economics, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This paper considers the simultaneous determination of residential density and the supply of local versus remote retail services. Possible equilibrium development patterns either correspond closely to what anti-sprawl activists describe as smart growth, or to its opposite. Equilibrium and optimal patterns of development do not always coincide. When equilibrium and optimal patterns of development diverge, optimal density is always discretely (as opposed to marginally) higher than equilibrium density. This occurs in the absence of congestion externalities, and is due to a free-rider problem and a coordination problem. The analysis indicates that a tax on large lots or a subsidy for small lots may be welfare improving under certain conditions. ... Read more

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To say this book is just about urban sprawl wouldn't exactly be true. This book is about people -- their homes, their lives, their spirits. It's about the American Dream -- what it means, and how we go about attaining it. It's about our front lawns and our basketball hoops. Our weekday commute. Our dreams and demands. Our apprehensions and regrets. It's about Applebee's and Best Buy and Pottery Barn and parking lots. It's about the land that sustains our stomachs as well as our souls. It's about growing further away from that which we can't quite put our finger on. It's about the "big story" that is happening from one town to the next, across the United States. ... Read more