Beyond urban–rural classifications: Characterising and mapping territories-in-between across Europe

Wandl, Alexander; Nadin, Vincent; Zonneveld, Wil; Rooij, Remon

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.06.010

Cited by 101 publications

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“…Although population is an important aspect of an urban environment, the urban area is a spatial concept that is only partly defined by the population within its boundaries (Weeks 2010). Wandl et al (2014) recently proposed a new territorial classification technique, using a range of data that encompasses CORINE land-cover data, population and infrastructure statistics to separate urban and rural areas from "territories-in-between" that transcend urban and rural classifications, where "rural" areas exist within urban areas and vice-versa, which may serve as a pragmatic classification tool to distinguish between contrasting urban areas.…”

Section: Urban Definitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impacts of urbanisation on hydrological and water quality dynamics, and urban water management: a review

McGrane

2016

Hydrological Sciences Journal

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As urban space continues to expand to accommodate a growing global population, there remains a real need to quantify and qualify the impacts of urban space on natural processes. The expansion of global urban areas has resulted in marked alterations to natural processes, environmental quality and natural resource consumption. The urban landscape influences infiltration and evapotranspiration, complicating our capacity to quantify their dynamics across a heterogeneous landscape at contrasting scales. Impervious surfaces exacerbate runoff processes, whereas runoff from pervious areas remains uncertain owing to variable infiltration dynamics. Increasingly, the link between the natural hydrological cycle and engineered water cycle has been made, realising the contributions from leaky infrastructure to recharge and runoff rates. Urban landscapes are host to a suite of contaminants that impact on water quality, where novel contaminants continue to pose new challenges to monitoring and treatment regimes. This review seeks to assess the major advances and remaining challenges that remain within the growing field of urban hydrology. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Urban Definitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impacts of urbanisation on hydrological and water quality dynamics, and urban water management: a review

McGrane

2016

Hydrological Sciences Journal

625

230

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“…The method to identify TiB and the selection of case studies was published earlier in Wandl et al (2014). The following is a brief summary:…”

Section: Selecting Ten Tib Across Europementioning

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“…(2) The areas should be big enough that they contain urban areas and TiB as well as rural areas as defined by Wandl et al (2014).…”

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“…Wandl, Nadin, Zonneveld and Rooij (2014) used the term Territories-in-Between (TiB) as an umbrella term to characterise and map dispersed urban development across Europe, in order to compare them without favouring the cultural notions that come with some of the concepts. They include Zwischenstadt (D) (Sieverts, 2003), città diffusa (I) (Indovina, 1990), annaehernd perfekte peripherie (CH) (Campi, Bucher, & Zardini, 2000), peri-urbanité (F) (Le Jeannic & Vidalenc, 1997).…”

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Comparing the Landscape Fragmentation and Accessibility of Green Spaces in Territories-in-Between across Europe

Wandl

2017

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To improve the positive effects provided by green spaces on human well-being in dispersed urban areas is a key challenge for sustainable spatial development in Europe. This article presents a methodology that allows for the comparison of the potential of green spaces in Territories-in-Between across Europe, in a way that crosses the fields of urban ecology and urbanism. The article adds to the existing knowledge and understanding of the relation between the spatial organisation of systems of green spaces and their accessibility to biodiversity and human well-being. Firstly, it adapts the fragmentation index in a way that it can be applied to the specific spatial characteristics of Territories-in-Between. Secondly, it combines the fragmentation index with an indicator for accessibility of green spaces, in order to integrate aspects of ecology, human well-being and the spatial heterogeneity of the relation between them. The methodology is applied to ten areas across western Europe in order to inform decision and policy makers including urban planners, designers and environmental agencies to be able to assess the potential of system of green spaces for biological diversity and human well-being in an integrated manner.

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“…As Brenner and Schmid (2014) point out, urbanization patterns are statistical artifacts which often depend on administrative or political decisions (Le Gléau, Pumain, and Saint-Julien 1997) that vary from one country to another. Nevertheless, threshold procedures are of great value when working on large areas, even when population and built-up criteria are being studied (Salvati et al 2012;Wandl et al 2014). …”

Section: Settlements' Identificationmentioning

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Characterizing European urban settlements from population data: a cartographic approach

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Cartography and Geographic Information Science

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The cartographic identification and characterization of urban settlements is problematic, particularly in varied areas or in large geographical extensions. This is due to the divergence between morphological area structures and data attribution, which is generally available at the level of administrative units. Most existing experiences focus on small regions or use indirect data, from which only indirect information can be derived. This paper proposes an identification of urban settlements in the European Union space, which combines urban population and shape through geographic information system (GIS) techniques. For that purpose, 1 km 2 cells with associated population data are used. A procedure is developed establishing three different types of urban settlements, according to population and population density values: high-density urban clusters, small and medium-sized towns, and very small towns. A validation of this procedure is performed using direct survey from local experts in 10 selected study areas. The final results show that 78,307 urban settlements can be identified: 88.17% of them are classified as "very small towns," 10.75% as "small and medium-sized towns," and 1.08% as high-density urban clusters. This exercise generates new information for the European Union and surrounding countries, and yields the basis for further research. All GIS operations are performed using vector layers, which is not usual in large-area regional studies. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Beyond urban–rural classifications: Characterising and mapping territories-in-between across Europe

Cited by 101 publications

References 11 publications

Impacts of urbanisation on hydrological and water quality dynamics, and urban water management: a review

Impacts of urbanisation on hydrological and water quality dynamics, and urban water management: a review

Comparing the Landscape Fragmentation and Accessibility of Green Spaces in Territories-in-Between across Europe

Characterizing European urban settlements from population data: a cartographic approach

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