Urban sprawl in Europe
Subtitle: landscapes, land-use change & policy
By: edited by Chris Couch, Lila Leontidou and Gerhard Petschel-Held.
Contributors: Couch, Chris.; Leontidou, Lila.; Petschel-Held, Gerhard.
Series: Real estate issues; Real estate issues (Oxford, England)
Publisher: Blackwell
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Oxford; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9781405139175
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Europe -- Growth; Urbanization -- Europe; City planning -- Europe; Urban policy -- Europe
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : definitions, theories and methods of comparative analysis / Chris Couch, Lila Leontidou, Karl-Olov Arnstberg; title: Sprawl in European cities : the comparative background / Diana Reckien, Jay Karecha; title: Infrastructure-related urban sprawl : mega-events and hybrid peri-urban landscapes in southern Europe / Lila Leontidou ... [et al.]; title: Sprawl in the post-socialist city : the changing economic and institutional context of central and eastern European cities / Natalia Pichler-Milanovia, Malgorzata Gutry-Korycka, Dieter Rink; title: Decline and sprawl : urban sprawl is not confined to expanding city regions / Henning Nuissl ... [et al.]; title: No place like second home : weekends, holidays, retirement and urban sprawl / Karl-Olov Arnstberg, Inger Bergstrom; title: Modelling urban sprawl : actors and mathematics / Matthias Lüdeke, Diana Reckien, Gerhard Petschel-Held; title: Lines of defence : policies for the control of urban sprawl / Henning Nuissl, Chris Couch; title: Urban sprawl and hybrid cityscapes in Europe : comparisons, theory construction and conclusions / Lila Leontidou, Chris Couch.