Sentence examples for sprawl process from inspiring English sources

Taken together, our results point out the emergence of a sprawl process where low-density settlements impact on specific land uses (arable lands, olive groves, and woodlands).

A CA-based model is proposed linking macro-scale processes to micro-dynamics in order to simulate the urban sprawl process.

The results reveal that during the sprawl process, residential land expanded rapidly in the first half of the study period while industrial land expanded rapidly in the second half.

In this uncontrolled situation, city planners lack tools to measure, monitor, and understand urban sprawl processes.

The complexity of causes and consequences involved in sprawl processes makes the classical models evaluating urban diffusion hardly applicable to the Mediterranean cities.

For this reason, landscape protection policies assume a relevant role in landscapes with low-medium values and they should be addressed to control the urban sprawl processes that are beginning in the area.

Maintaining existing levels of landscape diversity is becoming more and more important for planning considering the increasing pressures on agricultural ecosystems due to soil sealing, sprawl processes and intensive agriculture.

Such information would assist spatial planners to enact legislation pertaining to urban system, especially in cities of developing countries like Nigeria where empirical studies on this topic are limited and state-of-the-art tools for analyzing and measuring sprawl processes are lacking.

Supporters of the proposal say it will help fight suburban sprawl and speed the process of urban revitalization by giving state officials the means to encourage development in blighted cities and other areas.

We document how these vegetable gardens are the product of a peculiar form of the recent urban history of the area, and also how they are increasingly under pressure due to the rapid process of sprawl now characterizing the expansion of the built environment in the Barcelona region.

Complex process of urban sprawl was modelled using spatio temporal analysis.