Rethinking Urban Sprawl Moving Towards Sustainable Cities

This report provides a new perspective to the nature of urban sprawl and its causes and environmental, social and economic consequences. This perspective, which is based on the multi-dimensionality of urban sprawl, sets the foundations for the construction of new indicators to measure the various fa...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Paris OECD Publishing 2018
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Collection: OECD Books and Papers - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Executive summary
  • Causes and consequences of urban sprawl
  • Urban sprawl as a multidimensional phenomenon
  • The policy challenge of urban sprawl
  • Foreword
  • Sprawl in OECD urban areas
  • Steering urban development to more sustainable pathways