The Causes of Urban Sprawl in Spanish Urban Areas: A Spatial Approach

Gómez-Antonio, Miguel; Hortas-Rico, Miriam; Li, Linna

doi:10.1080/17421772.2016.1126674

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“…If a municipality entails significant growth of population and buildings, it is advisable to set, through institutional frameworks (e.g., territorial plan, regulatory plan), nonexceedable limits for territorial development [69]. Municipalities do not resort to significant limits in the early stages of suburbanisation, because they often compete with other municipalities for new inhabitants [26], and so many municipalities do not make any significant regulation until the capacity of the municipality is fulfilled. However, the interest of developers, as well as individuals, in land and real estate in the municipality can predict in the future a higher degree of development dynamics and pressure on a municipality [68], and thus, it is possible to predefine institutional frameworks and control mechanisms in the municipality development [16].…”

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“…In the OECD countries between 2001 and 2011, the trend of the decentralisation of population prevails in the analysis of mechanical population movements within functional urban areas, with population growth not taking place directly in existing cores but usually in their immediate vicinity, in places with low population densities [23], while such residents do not have to be from the core city, but also from other cities [24,25]. In addition, if there are more municipalities in the immediate background of the city, their spatial interaction in terms of expansion may occur within neighbouring municipalities, as individual municipalities are competing for new inhabitants, thus significantly promoting the growth of the core city [26]. In the suburbanisation process, residential populations are very often increasing at the periphery of cities, but the increase in new jobs in these areas is generally not the same, and thus, strategies based on polycentric development very often fail [27].…”

Section: Suburbanisation In the Context Of Environmental Aspects And mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Impact of Suburbanisation on Sustainable Development of Settlements in Suburban Spaces: Smart and New Solutions

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The aim of this article is to evaluate the impact of suburbanisation on the development of settlements with an emphasis on environmental aspects that need to be addressed in the process of extensive growth of municipalities in suburban regions. In the theoretical part, the article evaluates the processes of suburbanisation and their environmental impact. On a methodological level, municipalities in the suburban zone were first defined on the basis of driving distances. These municipalities were subjected to an analysis of the intensity of residential suburbanisation by calculating a multicriteria indicator from five selected criteria. In the second part of the analysis, a questionnaire survey of mayors was carried out in the particular municipalities. The responses were evaluated using the Likert scale method, and then statistically significant dependencies were sought among individual phenomena and environmental problems which need to be solved by the municipal management due to the growth of municipalities. It was found that the mayors consider changes in the landscape character to be among the most significant impacts of suburbanisation in the territory. A change in the rural character of municipalities because of the construction of urban-type houses is perceived as being very problematic. Another serious problem is the insufficient capacity of technical infrastructure such as sewerage and waste-water treatment. The costs of ensuring the quality of the environment and of public spaces, which are, in many cases, beyond the economic possibilities of municipalities, are also increasing significantly. The article also includes specifications of selected smart solutions and procedures that can help preserve the quality of the environment.

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Section: Suburbanisation In the Context Of Environmental Aspects And mentioning

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“…More recent studies apply sophisticated spatial regression analyses and expand the model to make it more suitable for polycentric metropolitan regions (e.g. Go´mez-Antonio et al, 2016). Many of these studies have confirmed that the assumptions of the model -namely that urban area is a function of population, income, land values and marginal transportation costs -have held up under a wide variety of model specifications.…”

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Does the monocentric model work in a polycentric urban system? An examination of German metropolitan regions

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In explaining the determinants of urban spatial structure, researchers have relied on the traditional monocentric ‘Alonso-Mills-Muth’ model. This article contributes to this discussion by testing the viability of the monocentric model when applied to metropolitan areas in Germany, a country traditionally associated with a polycentric urban structure, regional differences and urban shrinkage. We estimate the model with a unique dataset covering 92 metropolitan areas over two time periods (2000 and 2014), which allows estimation in both a cross-sectional and a panel framework. Using spatial and panel regression techniques, we test whether the underlying determinants of urbanisation vary according to factors unique to the German context, including the roles of historical geography, regional polycentricism and urban shrinkage. We found that, similar to the US studies, the model performed reasonably well, particularly with the overall fit and the performance of the population variable, which was significant and positively related to urbanised area. Personal income and land prices showed mixed results, and the coefficients for transportation costs proved to be challenging. We also found that regional geography matters: a region in eastern Germany is smaller than one in the west. A proxy variable for regional polycentricity was not significant. Finally, we found that the model’s behaviour differs between growing and shrinking regions, most notably in the differing impacts that population change has on the change in urbanised area.

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“…As research shows, the available technical infrastructure is of great importance, as well as the form of spatial structure development resulting, among others, from the demand for residential or industrial areas [67,68]. Gomez-Antonio and Hortas-Rico [2014] prove that urban sprawl is taking place in Spain [69]. They also indicate that the emergence of urban sprawl in the communes surrounding the city intensifies when sprawl occurs in a neighboring commune.…”

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Macroeconomic Perspective on Urban Sprawl: A Multidimensional Approach in Poland

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2021

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There are important relationships between the urban sprawl process and economic growth. They are usually expressed through spatial relations and changes taking place in the local, regional and national economy. The temporal and spatial dimension, including dispersed location, are the determinants of development and economic growth. Therefore, the urban sprawl phenomenon and the related location, hypothetically conditioning economic growth, should be subject to macroeconomic research. The article examines how urban sprawl affects the national budget and national economic growth. Unlike many studies where urban sprawl is studied by scattering the population around cities, we undertake more complex examination using buildings’ location. Urban sprawl, as we understand it, is a spontaneous spread of buildings around cities. To assess the spontaneity, we use a grid of squares with a side of 500 m. The squares are used to calculate the morphological indicators of urban sprawl. Therefore, quantified urban sprawl is one side of the equation; on the other side are macroeconomic variables. In this way, we examine the relationship between urban sprawl and the national budget and economic growth of Poland. The conclusions obtained are, e.g., urban sprawl does not have a negative effect on the national economy and the budget. This is a different conclusion from those thus far. There are also different conclusions on the regional level. Based on the research results, we formulate recommendations for national economic policy and spatial policy.

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The Causes of Urban Sprawl in Spanish Urban Areas: A Spatial Approach

Cited by 47 publications

References 85 publications

Impact of Suburbanisation on Sustainable Development of Settlements in Suburban Spaces: Smart and New Solutions

Impact of Suburbanisation on Sustainable Development of Settlements in Suburban Spaces: Smart and New Solutions

Does the monocentric model work in a polycentric urban system? An examination of German metropolitan regions

Macroeconomic Perspective on Urban Sprawl: A Multidimensional Approach in Poland

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