Contrasting static versus dynamic-based typologies of land cover patterns in the Lisbon metropolitan area: Towards a better understanding of peri-urban areas

Agri-urban patterns in Mediterranean urban regions: the case study of Pisa

“…Existing literature on the characterization of rural-urban gradients in urban regions focuses on typology-based models of municipalities according to their urban or rural character, e.g. Moreira et al (2016) or Gonçalves et al (2017). Recently, other models are emerging taking more explicitly into account other spatial units than municipalities or at least articulating them with types of municipalities and focusing on functional relationships between urban and rural land uses (Sanz Sanz et al, 2018).…”

“…However, further analyses are needed to link farm dynamics to fringe landscape particularly in medium-sized urban regions (Galli et al, 2010;Pileri & Maggi, 2010;Serra et al, 2017). In that sense, Moreira et al (2016) identified some static and dynamic types of municipalities based on the main land cover composition and on some fragmentation metrics, highlighting that the most dynamic municipalities were those located in a buffer surrounding the city center. However, Marraccini et al (2015) showed that at the urban region level in the Mediterranean region several dynamics involving either direct urbanization or other land-use changes can coexist in these areas, influenced by both the type of urban region (metropolitan or mid-sized urban area) and the location of the urban region (north or south of the Mediterranean).…”

Long-term land-use changes in small/medium-sized cities. Enhancing the general trends and local characteristics

“…The knowledge of long-term dynamics of urban areas, the transitions of agriculture and forest areas, bodies of water and the associated use of natural areas is fundamental to measure the past and future effects and understand the present landscape structure (Debolini, Schoorl, Temme, Galli, & Bonari, 2015;Dempsey et al, 2017;Meneses, Reis, Pereira, Vale, & Reis, 2017;Moreira, Fontes, Dias, e Silva, & Loupa-Ramos, 2016). Different studies present the use of indicators for monitoring the changes between classes of land use translating urban expansion and temporal dynamics (Long, Gub, & Han, 2012;Mantas, Marques, & Pereira, 2016;Tian, Ge, & Li, 2017).…”

“…Small and middle-sized cities are regarded as centres fostering the development of the surrounding territories (DGOTDU, 2002). Some of them are focused on small or medium-sized cities where land-use dynamics are presented as drivers to create new functions and offer a basis for planning and decision-making (Abrantes, Fontes, Gomes, & Rocha, 2016;Bandeira et al, 2011;Moreira et al, 2016;Pato, Castro, & Tavares, 2016;Teixeira, Teixeira, & Marques, 2014).…”

Spatio-temporal Analysis of Land Cover Changes of Izmir Province of Turkey Using Landsat TM and OLI Imagery

“…Several studies have been conducted for analyzing LULC changes in large Mediterranean urban environments such as Rome [6], Athens [7], Lisbon [8], Madrid [9], Istanbul [10], and Barcelona [11] where urban sprawl and successive ecosystem and agricultural fragmentation very common. Maraccini et al (2015) investigated common and different paths of land cover changes in six Mediterranean urban regions [2].…”