The potential effect of national growth-management policy on urban sprawl and the depletion of open spaces and farmland

Frenkel, Amnon

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2003.12.001

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“…A number of reasons have been cited for this development strategy including the high costs of municipal services and rising costs of health care (e.g., obesity, transportation injuries) related to sprawl and associated increased automobile use. [17][18][19] Research into these issues is required not only to protect the health and well-being of urban inhabitants, but also to ensure that planning decisions are based on evidence that considers the potential health and environmental consequences of development. To date, few studies have examined how noise varies as a function of urban development.…”

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Noise Levels Associated with Urban Land Use

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Recent trends towards the intensification of urban development to increase urban densities and avoid sprawl should be accompanied by research into the potential for related health impacts from environmental exposure. The objective of the current study was to examine the effect of the built environment and land use on levels of environmental noise. Two different study areas were selected using a combination of small area census geography, land use information, air photography, and groundtruthing. The first study area represented residential land use and consisted of two-to three-story single-family homes. The second study area was characteristic of mixed-use urban planning with apartment buildings as well as commercial and institutional development. Study areas were subdivided into six grids, and a location was randomly selected within each grid for noise monitoring. Each location was sampled four times over a 24-h day, resulting in a total of 24 samples for each of the two areas. Results showed significant variability in noise within study areas and significantly higher levels of environmental noise in the mixed-use area. Both study areas exceeded recommended noise limits when evaluated against World Health Organization guidelines and yielded average noise events values in the moderate to serious annoyance range with the potential to obscure normal conversation and cause sleep disturbance.

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“…In this way, the familiar density and continuity dimensions of sprawl [4] can be easily operationalised. In other cases sprawl is defined in less specific terms and understood as occurring when the rate of urban expansion exceeds the rate of population growth [22,28] or simply as low density residential development [29][30][31][32]. However, even multidimensional definitions of urban sprawl that primarily focus on physical characteristics have limitations.…”

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“…The question of how to use scarce land resources more efficiently is echoed in Frenkel's [28] study of growth management policies in Israel. Using a combination of scenario planning and quantitative models, this article [28] demonstrates that focused growth management policies can be more effective than current policies in preserving open space and farmlands. Maruani and Amit-Cohen [53] focus specifically on Tel Aviv and also argue that large amount of public land ownership in Israel (93%) is ideally suited for strong environmental protection policies through land management regulations.…”

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The Environmental Impacts of Sprawl: Emergent Themes from the Past Decade of Planning Research

2013

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Abstract:This article reviews studies published in English language planning journals since 2001 that focus on the environmental impacts of sprawl. We organise our analysis of the reviewed literature around: (1) the conceptualisation or measurement of sprawl; (2) a comparison of research methods employed and findings with respect to four categories of environmental impacts-air, energy, land, and water; and (3) an exploration of emergent and cross-cutting themes. We hypothesise that the trend towards breaking down silos observable in other areas of planning scholarship is also reflected in the recent sprawl literature and structure our review to test this proposition. International in scope, our work demonstrates how focusing on outcomes can facilitate balanced comparisons across geographic contexts with varying rates of urbanisation and affluence. We find that the sprawl research published in planning journals over the past decade frequently engages with broader themes of resilience and justice, increasingly considers multiple environmental outcomes, and suggests a convergence in the way sprawl is studied that transcends national boundaries as well as the developing-developed country dichotomy.

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“…These studies typically look several decades ahead and describe the outlook of the future by means of a set of scenarios with different socio-economic conditions. Land-use models are used here to indicate possible future land-use patterns according to the specified scenario conditions, as is demonstrated in numerous applications (de Nijs et al 2004;Solecki and Oliveri 2004;Frenkel 2004). Since scenarios can also contain reference to actual or envisaged spatial policies, the simulations can confront policymakers with the possible outcomes of their decisions.…”

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Characterising urban concentration and land-use diversity in simulations of future land use

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Koomen

2007

Ann Reg Sci

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This paper presents two sets of functional indicators that were implemented and tested for the assessment of spatial aspects of future land-use configurations as simulated by a land-use model. This is potentially useful for the ex-ante evaluation of spatial planning policies. The indicators were applied in a Dutch case study and relate to two important themes in Dutch spatial planning: compact urbanisation and mixing of land uses. After a short introduction of these themes, the sets of indicators are presented which are used for their evaluation. These indicators are applied to simulations based on two scenarios for land-use development in the Netherlands up to 2030. After a discussion of the results we conclude that the combined application of land-use models and indicators produces new and potentially useful information for policy makers, although both the model and the associated indicators are still in a state of development. JEL Classification

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The potential effect of national growth-management policy on urban sprawl and the depletion of open spaces and farmland

Cited by 107 publications

References 34 publications

Noise Levels Associated with Urban Land Use

Noise Levels Associated with Urban Land Use

The Environmental Impacts of Sprawl: Emergent Themes from the Past Decade of Planning Research

Characterising urban concentration and land-use diversity in simulations of future land use

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