Land use change in Britain

Bibby, Peter

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2009.09.019

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“…Long's study [26] shows that rural settlement land is one of the key resources for urban construction lands, and the increase in rural settlements mainly comes from cultivated land [7]; it is in the same situation in the study area. This process causes an initial change from cultivated lands into rural settlements, and then further conversion into urban lands.…”

Section: Effects Of Geography and Cultivated Land Protection Policiesmentioning

confidence: 94%

The Effects of Urban Sprawl on the Spatial Evolution of Rural Settlements: A Case Study in Changchun, China

Wang

et al. 2016

Sustainability

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Detailed analysis of continuous time-series data from regions undergoing rapid urbanization can accurately reveal spatial variations on short time scales. This study used the city of Changchun in Jilin Province, China, as a case study to analyze total and annual changes in area-especially decreases in rural settlement area-as well as regional differences in these changes and driving forces of rural settlement evolution. Quantitative analytical techniques include a dynamic percentage of rural settlements, the distribution index of rural settlements, the regression correlation analysis, and other spatial analysis methods. Data were derived from a variety of sources, including land-use databases and social and economic statistics. The results show that the area of rural settlements decreased between 2009 and 2014, with the urban construction land expansion and decreases in cultivated lands. Rural settlements also became increasingly fragmented after 2009. Most of the rural settlements were located close to the urban construction land, and changes in rural settlement area were more pronounced with decreasing distance to the closest urban construction land, illustrating the effect of urban sprawl on rural settlement changes. The analysis also shows that the decreasing area of rural settlements between 2009 and 2014 is directly caused by urban sprawl. Regional development strategies and urban planning indirectly contribute to changes in the scale and spatial distribution of rural settlements by guiding urban development. The geographical environment and strict cultivated-land-protection policies also indirectly restrict changes in rural settlements by determining the restrictive area of urban expansion. No significant changes were found in the influence of population change on changing areas of rural settlements. In conclusion, the interaction of strategy for social-economic development, natural geography environments, and human demand jointly caused changes in rural settlements.

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Section: Effects Of Geography and Cultivated Land Protection Policiesmentioning

confidence: 94%

The Effects of Urban Sprawl on the Spatial Evolution of Rural Settlements: A Case Study in Changchun, China

Wang

et al. 2016

Sustainability

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“…On the other hand, the average dwelling densities have decreased in the north [24]. This may reflect in the increasing amount of underused land in the northern regions, while the amount of unused land fell (Figure 4a and 4b).…”

Section: The Effects Of Regions Urbanisation and Pdl On Socio-econommentioning

confidence: 95%

“…Under the pressure of growing population, the metropolitan area has unavoidably become more compact [24,52]. Because of this, renewing public infrastructure is equally important to providing housing.…”

Section: The Effects Of Regions Urbanisation and Pdl On Socio-econommentioning

confidence: 99%

Sticks and Stones: The Impact of the Definitions of Brownfield in Policies on Socio-Economic Sustainability

Tang

Nathanail

2012

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Many countries encourage brownfield regeneration as a means of sustainable development but define "brownfield" differently. Specifically, the definitions of brownfield in the regeneration policies of countries with higher population densities usually promote recycling land that is previously developed, whether or not there is chemical contamination. Further, the de facto definition of brownfield used by the UK government focuses on previously developed land that is unused or underused. The ANOVA in this study revealed that local authorities in England (n = 296) with higher percentages of derelict and vacant land tended to be more deprived based on the English Indices of Multiple Deprivation, which evaluate deprivation from the aspects of income, employment, health, education, housing, crime, and living environment. However, the percentage of previously developed land in use but with further development potential had no significant effect on the deprivation conditions. The Blair-Brown Government (1997~2010) encouraged more than 60% of new dwellings to be established on the previously developed land in England. The analyses in this study showed that this target, combined with the definition of brownfield in the policy, may have facilitated higher densities of residential development on previously developed land but without addressing the deprivation problems. These observations indicate that a definition of brownfield in regeneration policies should focus on previously developed land that is now vacant or derelict if land recycling is to contribute to sustainable communities.

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“…The geodemographic variables are thus not timedependent in the course of this study. Table 1 summarises the models above, from its simplest (Equation 3, based on Property 1 only), to the most complex (Equation 6, based on all four properties):…”

Section: Modelling Growthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As testimony of this success, businesses like Foursquare 5 are now switching from proprietary datasets to OSM. 6 However, relying entirely on user-generated content for urban mapping raises concerns, not only in terms of accuracy of the collected information (which, for OSM, is presently high), but also in terms of its coverage. Recent studies of OSM have revealed that coverage of information is non-uniformly distributed across a city, with areas that are either further from the centre, or central but income deprived, being particularly neglected [30].…”

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Modelling growth of urban crowd-sourced information

Quattrone

Mashhadi²,

Quercia

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

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Urban crowd-sourcing has become a popular paradigm to harvest spatial information about our evolving cities directly from citizens. OpenStreetMap is a successful example of such paradigm, with an accuracy of its user-generated content comparable to that of curated databases (e.g., Ordnance Survey). Coverage is however low and most importantly non-uniformly distributed across the city. Being able to model the spontaneous growth of digital information in these domains is required, so to be able to plan interventions aimed at gathering content about areas that would otherwise be neglected. Inspired by models of physical urban growth developed by urban planners, we build a model of digital growth of crowd-sourced spatial information that is both easy to interpret and dynamic, so to be able to determine what factors impact growth and how these change over time. We build and test the model against five years of OpenStreetMap data for the city of London, UK. We then run the model against two other cities, chosen for their different physical and digital growth's characteristics, so to stress-test the model. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of this work on both developers and users of urban crowd-sourcing applications.

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Land use change in Britain

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The Effects of Urban Sprawl on the Spatial Evolution of Rural Settlements: A Case Study in Changchun, China

The Effects of Urban Sprawl on the Spatial Evolution of Rural Settlements: A Case Study in Changchun, China

Sticks and Stones: The Impact of the Definitions of Brownfield in Policies on Socio-Economic Sustainability

Modelling growth of urban crowd-sourced information

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