Revisiting "Southern" Sprawl : Urban Growth, Socio-Spatial Structure and the Influence of Local Economic Contexts
Tombolini, Ilaria (Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (Roma, Itàlia))
Zambon, Ilaria (Università degli studi della Tuscia. Dipartimento per l'Innovazione nei sistemi Biologici, Agroalimentari e Forestali)
Ippolito, Achille (Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza". Dipartimento di Architettura e Progetto)
Grigoriadis, Stathis (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Geografia)
Serra Ruiz, Pere (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Geografia)
Salvati, Luca (Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza". Dipartimento di Scienze Sociali ed Economiche)

Date:	2015
Abstract:	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-withurbanization 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 fragmentedGiven 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.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Mediterranean city ; Urban form ; Land consumption ; Economic structure
Published in:	Economies, Vol. 3 (2015) , p. 237-259, ISSN 2227-7099

DOI: 10.3390/economies3040237

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