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- Title
A Housing-Unit-Level Approach to Characterizing Residential Sprawl.
- Authors
Hasse, John; Lathrop, Richard G.
- Abstract
Five spatial metrics are developed at the housing-unit level for analyzing spatial patterns of urban growth in order to better identify the characteristics and qualities of urban sprawl. A multi-temporal land-use/land-cover dataset for Hunterdon County, New Jersey is utilized to measure new housing units developed between Time 1 (1986) and Time 2 (1995) for five traits defined as "sprawl" in the planning and policy literature: (1) density, (2) leapfrog, (3) segregated land use, (4) accessibility, and (5) highway strip. The resulting housing-unit sprawl indicator measurements are summarized by municipality to provide a "sprawl report card." The analysis provides a new direction in sprawl research that addresses sprawl at the atomic level, captures the temporal nature of urban growth, and provides measures that are potentially useful to planners addressing sprawl.
- Subjects
URBAN growth; SPATIAL systems; URBAN land use
- Publication
Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 2003, Vol 69, Issue 9, p1021
- ISSN
0099-1112
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14358/PERS.69.9.1021