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Sharing common drivers of change related to population dynamics, socio-spatial structure and deregulated urban expansion, sprawl has adapted to the local economic, cultural and environmental context. Barcelona shows a dispersion pattern towards a more spatially-balanced morphology, with expanding sub-centres distributed around the central city, Rome appears to be mostly scattered around the historical city with fragmented urban fabric and heterogeneous economic functions, Athens is denser, with polarized economic spaces and social segregation. Understanding how place-specific factors influence processes of settlement dispersion in Mediterranean contexts may inform policies of urban containment and land-use management. Keywords: mediterranean city; urban form; land consumption; economic structure Author: Ilaria Tombolini, Ilaria Zambon, Achille Ippolito, Stathis Grigoriadis, Pere Serra and Luca Salvati Creator: PScript5.dll Version 5.2.2 Producer: Acrobat Distiller 11.0 (Windows) CreationDate: Mon Dec 21 19:13:50 2015 ModDate: Fri Feb 5 12:01:28 2016 Tagged: no UserProperties: no Suspects: no Form: none JavaScript: no Pages: 23 Encrypted: no Page size: 595.22 x 842 pts (A4) Page rot: 0 File size: 5199228 bytes Optimized: yes PDF version: 1.4 name type encoding emb sub uni object ID ------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- --- --- --- --------- POAGAF+TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT TrueType WinAnsi yes yes no 354 0 POAGBG+TimesNewRomanPSMT TrueType WinAnsi yes yes no 355 0 POAGCI+TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT TrueType WinAnsi yes yes no 356 0 POAGCK+TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT TrueType WinAnsi yes yes no 357 0 POAGBF+TimesNewRomanPSMT CID TrueType Identity-H yes yes yes 337 0 POCOCF+ArialMT TrueType WinAnsi yes yes no 338 0 Jhove (Rel. 1.6, 2011-01-04) Date: 2016-09-23 03:58:21 CEST RepresentationInformation: eco_2015v3p237.pdf ReportingModule: PDF-hul, Rel. 1.8 (2009-05-22) LastModified: 2016-02-05 12:02:05 CET Size: 5199228 Format: PDF Version: 1.4 Status: Well-Formed and valid SignatureMatches: PDF-hul MIMEtype: application/pdf Profile: Linearized PDF, ISO PDF/A-1, Level B PDFMetadata: Objects: 369 FreeObjects: 1 IncrementalUpdates: 1 DocumentCatalog: PageLayout: SinglePage PageMode: UseNone Info: Title: Revisiting “Southern” Sprawl: Urban Growth, Socio-Spatial Structure and the Influence of Local Economic Contexts Author: Ilaria Tombolini, Ilaria Zambon, Achille Ippolito, Stathis Grigoriadis, Pere Serra and Luca Salvati Subject: Given its unpredictable nature, urban sprawl in the Mediterranean region is considered an intriguing (and intricate) socioeconomic issue. Since the 1970s, urban dispersion advanced rapidly in southern Europe irrespective of a city’s size and morphology with urbanization rates growing faster than population. A comparison between the metropolitan areas of Barcelona, Rome and Athens reveals how sprawl has occurred in different ways in the three cities, highlighting peculiar relationships between urbanization, land-use and economic structures. Sharing common drivers of change related to population dynamics, socio-spatial structure and deregulated urban expansion, sprawl has adapted to the local economic, cultural and environmental context. Barcelona shows a dispersion pattern towards a more spatially-balanced morphology, with expanding sub-centres distributed around the central city, Rome appears to be mostly scattered around the historical city with fragmented urban fabric and heterogeneous economic functions, Athens is denser, with polarized economic spaces and social segregation. Understanding how place-specific factors influence processes of settlement dispersion in Mediterranean contexts may inform policies of urban containment and land-use management. 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socioeconomic issue. 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