Urban ecological systems are characterized by complex interactions among social, economic, institutional, and environmental variables. These interactions generate complex human-dominated landscapes...

The Effects of Urban Patterns on Ecosystem Function

The compact city has become a leading concept in the planning of peri-urban areas. The compact city concept is often advocated as “sustainable” because of claims that include lower emissions and conservation of the countryside. The literature shows, however, that there are certain trade-offs in striving for compaction, especially between environmental and social aspects of sustainability. In this article, we describe expressions of the compact city concept in the planning practice of several European urban sample regions, as well as policies and developments that contradict the compact city. We look at examples of positive and negative impacts of the compact city that were observed in the sample regions. Further, we discuss attempts by planners to deal with sustainability trade-offs. Being aware that developments in the peri-urban areas are closely connected to those in the inner city, we compare the sample regions in order to learn how the compact city concept has been used in planning peri-urban areas a...

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Dealing with Sustainability Trade-Offs of the Compact City in Peri-Urban Planning Across European City Regions

Introduction.- Industrial-Modern City.- Demographic Change and the City.- Global Cities.- Everyday Life in the City.- Consumption and Urban Culture.- Urban Social Inequality and Exclusion.- Planning and the Urban Environment.- The Sustainable City.- Reflections.

The Transformation of Cities: Urban Theory and Urban Life

Urban sprawl is eroding the traditionally compact, diverse, and mixed Southern European cities. Besides the rise in land and energy consumption, the expansion of low density urban forms also affects water, a critical resource in the region. This study examines garden watering in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona in order to illustrate the importance of outdoor water use in the urbanization process, and, following the insights provided by urban political ecology, to highlight the differences in garden types and water spending according to power relations derived from income levels. Results indicate that, generally, higher income households prefer and can afford more water-consuming Atlantic gardens whereas lower income households have to resort to more climate-adapted species. These differences produce in turn different urban natures based on who can and who cannot afford water costs.

Urbanization and Sustainable Resource Use: The Case of Garden Watering in the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona

The effect of urban form on energy consumption has been the subject of various studies around the world. Having examined the effect of buildings on energy consumption, these studies indicate that t...

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Computational modeling of land surface temperature using remote sensing data to investigate the spatial arrangement of buildings and energy consumption relationship

research and for planning practice (Owens and Rickaby, 1983). We also reported that urban and regional planners had little incentive to integrate energy considerations into their policies. Since then, the research which we previewed has been completed and reported (Rickaby, 1987, 1991), and popular, official and professional views of the subject have changed. In this paper we review the developments of the past ten years and take stock of the current situation. Perhaps the most marked changes since our previous contribution have been in the nature of popular concern and the focus of professional interest. Ten years ago, concern about environmental issues focused on

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