Landscape sequences along the urban–rural–natural gradient: A novel geospatial approach for identification and analysis

Vizzari, Marco; Sigura, Maurizia

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2015.04.001

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“…The new growth of urban districts was often generated by the elimination of semi-natural areas in satellite cities or suburbs around the existing urban places [5]. Great loss due to high vulnerability of agricultural land was a direct consequence of high-intensity land use, and has been highlighted in previous studies [33,40]. In addition, the constant decrease of AL was partly due to the abandoned farmland which was widespread in Yangtze River delta [9].…”

Section: The Spatiotemporal Pattern Of Landscape Changes Under Rapid mentioning

confidence: 93%

“…The results were consistent with Forman and Godron [38], which stated that along a landscape modification gradient patch density and shape would increase, meanwhile landscape connectivity would decrease with urbanization. The results of LPI implied that the residential and industrial land occupied most portions of landscape area within the rural-urban fringes, where natural landscape were originally dominated by agricultural and green land [33]. Highly mixed landscape emerged in suburbs due not only to the "top-down" forces from urban center, but the "down-top" influences exerted by suburbanization from rural industrialization as well [39].…”

Section: The Spatiotemporal Pattern Of Landscape Changes Under Rapid mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These configurational metrics decreased progressively when the samples moving from human-made systems to the natural landscapes and temporally exhibited S-shaped curve during the urbanization period. Urban studies by scholars around the world have found these patterns to be overwhelmingly common [1,8,23,33].…”

Section: The Metrics Varying Characteristics For Individual and Entirmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Quantifying the Spatiotemporal Patterns of Urbanization along Urban-Rural Gradient with a Roadscape Transect Approach: A Case Study in Shanghai, China

Zhang

2016

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Abstract:Quantifying the landscape pattern change can effectively demonstrate the ecological progresses and the consequences of urbanization. Based on remotely sensed land cover data in 1994, 2000, 2006 and a gradient analysis with landscape metrics at landscape-and class-level, we attempted to characterize the individual and entire landscape patterns of Shanghai metropolitan during the rapid urbanization. We highlighted that a roadscape transect approach that combined the buffer zone method and the transect-based approach was introduced to describe the urban-rural patterns of agricultural, residential, green, industrial, and public facilities land along the railway route. Our results of landscape metrics showed significant spatiotemporal patterns and gradient variations along the transect. The urban growth pattern in two time spans conform to the hypothesis for diffusion-coalescence processes, implying that the railway is adaptive as a gradient element to analyze the landscape patterns with urbanization. As the natural landscape was replaced by urban landscape gradually, the desakota region expanded its extent widely. Suburb areas witnessed the continual transformation from the predominantly rural landscape to peri-urban landscape. Furthermore, the gap between urban and rural areas remained large especially in public service. More reasonable urban plans and land use policies should push to make more efforts to coordinate urban-rural development. This study is a meaningful trial in demonstrating a new form of urban-rural transects to study the landscape change of large cities. By combining gradient analysis with landscape metrics, we addressed the process of urbanization both spatially and temporally, and provided a more quantitative approach to urban studies.

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Section: The Spatiotemporal Pattern Of Landscape Changes Under Rapid mentioning

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Section: The Spatiotemporal Pattern Of Landscape Changes Under Rapid mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Metrics Varying Characteristics For Individual and Entirmentioning

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Quantifying the Spatiotemporal Patterns of Urbanization along Urban-Rural Gradient with a Roadscape Transect Approach: A Case Study in Shanghai, China

Zhang

2016

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“…For example, the urban fringe to the south has a lower MPS for agricultural land than in the north and east; and that the difference is due to the high frequency of vineyards in the south compared to the dominance of dryland cereal fields in the north, and extensive grazing areas and fruit orchards in the east. Furthermore, this method can be used to understand the influences of regional towns on land-use transitions-a point that is rarely considered in peri-urban studies [48]. For example, in the southern transect, the influence of the town of Victor Harbor on land fragmentation and land-use changes near the end of the transect is clear in comparison to the other two transects.…”

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“…These data reveal the importance of quantifying the individual land-use class measurements to identify the detailed land structure elements in these complex landscapes. Vizzari and Sigura [48] argue that whole gradient analysis is required in rural-to-urban analyses. Urban expansion in Australian cities occurs in less complex landscapes than those in world regions chararcterised by high levels of urbanization or rapid urbanization and unprecedented levels of development in tangled webs of complex rural-urban transitions [10], e.g., Japan, eastern China, south-east Asia, western Europe, and parts of North America.…”

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Agricultural Land Fragmentation at Urban Fringes: An Application of Urban-To-Rural Gradient Analysis in Adelaide

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Millington

Crossman

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Abstract:One of the major consequences of expansive urban growth is the degradation and loss of productive agricultural land and agroecosystem functions. Four landscape metrics-Percentage of Land (PLAND), Mean Parcel Size (MPS), Parcel Density (PD), and Modified Simpson's Diversity Index (MSDI)-were calculated for 1 km × 1 km cells along three 50 km-long transects that extend out from the Adelaide CBD, in order to analyze variations in landscape structures. Each transect has different land uses beyond the built-up area, and they differ in topography, soils, and rates of urban expansion. Our new findings are that zones of agricultural land fragmentation can be identified by the relationships between MPS and PD, that these occur in areas where PD ranges from 7 and 35, and that these occur regardless of distance along the transect, land use, topography, soils, or rates of urban growth. This suggests a geometry of fragmentation that may be consistent, and indicates that quantification of both land use and land-use change in zones of fragmentation is potentially important in planning.

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Roders¹

2019

The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies

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Urban heritage is a social construction, a selection of resources in urban contexts which communities hold in common and deem valuable and, therefore, are willing to conserve. Urban heritage can be designated under varied legal status, such as municipal, national, and world heritage. Urban heritage can refer to a variety of urban resources, such as tangible, intangible, movable, immovable, natural, cultural, digital, and analogue. Urban heritage is the product of a traditional model of resource consumption and production, whereby urban resources can be destroyed or forgotten, unless deemed valuable and/or listed as heritage. The exception is to conserve and reuse urban resources. Urban heritage is a notion at risk of extinction during the twenty‐first century with its expanding definition and the further enhancement and adoption of more sustainable models of resource consumption and production.

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Landscape sequences along the urban–rural–natural gradient: A novel geospatial approach for identification and analysis

Cited by 98 publications

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Quantifying the Spatiotemporal Patterns of Urbanization along Urban-Rural Gradient with a Roadscape Transect Approach: A Case Study in Shanghai, China

Quantifying the Spatiotemporal Patterns of Urbanization along Urban-Rural Gradient with a Roadscape Transect Approach: A Case Study in Shanghai, China

Agricultural Land Fragmentation at Urban Fringes: An Application of Urban-To-Rural Gradient Analysis in Adelaide

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