Resource Conservation: Key Elements in Sustainable Rural Development
In: E-Innovation for Sustainable Development of Rural Resources During Global Economic Crisis; Practice, Progress, and Proficiency in Sustainability, S. 80-97
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In: E-Innovation for Sustainable Development of Rural Resources During Global Economic Crisis; Practice, Progress, and Proficiency in Sustainability, S. 80-97
In: Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis, Band 7, Heft 2, S. 129-144
The compact city is regarded as an important concept in promoting sustainable development, especially within the European Union. The socialist urban planning system maintained a high compactness of the urban areas through almost exclusive predominance of the public sector in housing provision, and ideological nature of the planning strategies. After the 1990's, the administrative decentralization allowed local authorities to adopt particular urban development strategies. However, development was directly influenced by the importance of the urban administrative centre. The aim of the paper is to determine if post-socialist urban areas maintained their compact urban form or they encountered different evolution trajectories. We determined the type of changes by calculating urban form indicators at two time moments: 1990 and 2006. Furthermore, the two-way repeated-measurement ANOVA was used to identify significant changes, and to assess the effect of the development level of the urban area on the variance of form indicators. The results show that Romanian post-socialist urban areas either shifted from the compact form, "inherited" after the collapse of socialism, to more dispersed patterns, either expanded in a compact manner. Moreover, as development level got higher, urban areas were more likely to be affected by suburbanization and periurbanization. In order to respond to these challenges, new instruments such as setting of metropolitan areas or spatial framework plans could be used. Furthermore, planning should be adapted to local circumstances and to the different development trajectories of big and mid-sized urban areas.
In: Habitat international: a journal for the study of human settlements, Band 82, S. 62-71
In: Environmental science & policy, Band 142, S. 1-11
ISSN: 1462-9011
In: Land use policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use, Band 94, S. 104510
ISSN: 0264-8377