Long-term growth and metropolitan spatial structures: An analysis of factors influencing urban patch size under different economic cycles

L Salvati, A Ferrara, F Chelli - Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Urban forms are increasingly reflective of socio-economic change in metropolitan regions.
The present study illustrates an original approach to identify latent mechanisms of urban …

Spatial structure evolution of urban agglomerations and its driving factors in mainland China: From the monocentric to the polycentric dimension

F Lan, H Da, H Wen, Y Wang - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Urban agglomerations (UAs) have become the urbanized “growth poles”, especially against
the background of increasing population flow to cities. The spatial structure of UAs has been …

Coastal use synergies and conflicts evaluation in the framework of spatial, development and sectoral policies

N Rempis, G Alexandrakis, G Tsilimigkas… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2018 - Elsevier
Coastal zones are submitted to pressures, due to population growth and continuous
expansion of human activities, which become more intense by the effects of climate change …

Land spatial development based on carrying capacity, land development potential, and efficiency of urban agglomerations in China

Z Wang - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
The Chinese government is undergoing a major reform. The current core task of new
Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) is to establish a national territorial spatial planning …

The continuous built-up area extracted from ISS night-time lights to compare the amount of urban green areas across European cities

M Wicht, M Kuffer - European Journal of Remote Sensing, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The presence of urban green areas significantly impacts urban inhabitants' well-being.
However, comparative studies across European cities are constraint by urban administrative …

What drives built‐up area expansion on islands? Using soil sealing indicators to estimate built‐up area patterns on Aegean Islands, Greece

T Kizos, G Tsilimigkas… - … voor economische en …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The dispersion of built‐up areas in peri‐urban zones is considered an important, almost
irreversible environmental threat, especially in coastal zones and islands. In this paper, we …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-Temporal PSI Analysis and Burn Severity Combination to Determine Ground-Burned Hazard Zones

V Letsios, I Faraslis, D Stathakis - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Forest fires are a seasonal phenomenon in Greece, reoccurring annually and causing
adverse impacts on both human-made and natural environments. Our case study focuses on …

The Greek model of urbanization

D Stathakis, P Baltas - Land Use Policy, 2024 - Elsevier
For exactly one century Greece, in turbulent times and with a fragile economy, has aspired to
articulate a land policy able to control urbanization and tilt the scales in favor of society …

Incorporating density in spatiotemporal land use/cover change patterns: The case of Attica, Greece

D Gounaridis, E Symeonakis, I Chorianopoulos… - Remote Sensing, 2018 - mdpi.com
This paper looks at the periodic land use/cover (LUC) changes that occurred in Attica,
Greece from 1991 to 2016. During this period, land transformations were mostly related to …

In-Between Sprawl and Neo-Rurality: Sparse Settlements and the Evolution of Socio-Demographic Local Context in a Mediterranean Region

R Salvia, P Serra, I Zambon, M Cecchini, L Salvati - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
Dispersed urbanization during the last half century has transformed metropolitan regions
into well-connected, low-density residential areas. However, this kind of urbanization has …