Urbanisation patterns in Europe since the 1950s have resulted in a swath of low-density
discontinuous development, commonly called peri-urban areas. These areas are …

The study of ecosystem services enables the understanding of the services that ecosystems
provide at the landscape level by explaining the relationship between natural capital …

Performance-based planning (PBP) is designed to determine city planning standards based
on local activity characteristics; however, there have been few practical applications of this …

Traditional land-use planning models have been unable to completely address
environmental protection concerns without taking into account the suitability of the land to …

This open access book presents current knowledge about ecosystem services (ES) in urban
planning, and discusses various urban ES topics such as spatial distribution of urban …

COVID-19 hit Italy in February 2020 after its outbreak in China at the beginning of January.
Why was Italy first among the Western countries? What are the conditions that made Italy …

Urban planning is the most relevant decision-making process affecting urban regulating
ecosystem services. However, a clear understanding of the effects of planning decisions on …

The spatial non-stationarity of the trade-off/synergy among land use functions is manifested
in the complexity of interrelationships and the heterogeneity of spatial distributions …

The land use planning and management of urban fringe areas have become major
governmental agendas under the background of continuing periurbanization processes …

Peri-urban landscapes (PULs) are specific transitional forms of urban landscapes
undergoing dynamic land-use changes. PULs' transformations are driven by close and …