WHAT is happening at Springdale seems to be an inevitable result of declining volunteer numbers and greater demand for services in expanding communities like Stamford, which are in various stages of evolution from sprawl to urbanization.
Toward this end, the essay asks: "Can landscape play a more effective and beneficial role in affecting sprawl and urbanization?" China's current landscape urbanization relationship positions China as a global laboratory for sustainable landscape innovations to be explored and monitored.
Following nearly three decades of urban sprawl, China's urbanization has entered a new era of land redevelopment that encompasses built-up land in villages in a manner that is unprecedented.
For example, the expansion of the range of personal travel brought about by automobile access and the development of rail corridors around major cities is responsible for urban sprawl and peri-urbanization.
Urban policy plays an important role in urbanization and urban sprawl, which in turn affect changes in CO2 emissions from urban areas.
With growing urbanization worldwide, urban sprawl is leading to the extension of peri-urban areas in most countries.
This detachment trend is simultaneous with large-scale urbanization and urban sprawl at the end of twentieth century.
The implementation of neoliberal economic policies has coincided with an era of rapid urbanization and urban sprawl, especially in large Ghanaian cities such as Accra, Kumasi, Sekondi-Takoradi and Tamale.
The urban pattern of Lisbon and its environs is characterized by rapid urban sprawl, focused in the urban centers of Lisbon, Oeiras, Cascais Setúbal, and Almada, and by intense urbanization along the main road and train lines radiating from the major urban centers.
With increasing wealth, households choose larger living spaces, leading to urban sprawl, sub- and peri-urbanization.
