Urban sprawl in Europe : landscapes, land-use change & policy / edited by Chris Couch, Lila Leontidou and Gerhard Petschel-Held. - Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2007. - xix, 273 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Real estate issues . - Real estate issues (Oxford, England) .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : definitions, theories and methods of comparative analysis / Chris Couch, Lila Leontidou, Karl-Olov Arnstberg -- Sprawl in European cities : the comparative background / Diana Reckien, Jay Karecha -- Infrastructure-related urban sprawl : mega-events and hybrid peri-urban landscapes in southern Europe / Lila Leontidou ... [et al.] -- Sprawl in the post-socialist city : the changing economic and institutional context of central and eastern European cities / Natalia Pichler-Milanovia, Malgorzata Gutry-Korycka, Dieter Rink -- Decline and sprawl : urban sprawl is not confined to expanding city regions / Henning Nuissl ... [et al.] -- No place like second home : weekends, holidays, retirement and urban sprawl / Karl-Olov Arnstberg, Inger Bergstrom -- Modelling urban sprawl : actors and mathematics / Matthias L�udeke, Diana Reckien, Gerhard Petschel-Held -- Lines of defence : policies for the control of urban sprawl / Henning Nuissl, Chris Couch -- Urban sprawl and hybrid cityscapes in Europe : comparisons, theory construction and conclusions / Lila Leontidou, Chris Couch.

9781405139175 (pbk. : alk. paper) 140513917X (pbk. : alk. paper)

B-29004

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Cities and towns--Growth.--Europe
Urbanization--Europe.
City planning--Europe.
Urban policy--Europe.

HT384.E85 / .U94 2007