Typologies of sprawl: investigating United States metropolitan land use patterns |
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| Authors: | Andrea Sarzynski Lisa Stack |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Public Policy and Administration, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA;2. Department of Sociology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA |
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| Abstract: | We investigate patterns of residential and nonresidential land use in 311 United States metropolitan (Extended Urban) areas in 2000 using four measures: intensity, compactness, mixing, and core-dominance. A cluster analysis revealed four distinctive groups of land use patterns: (1) Most-Intense, Least-Compact, Least-Mixed, More-Monocentric Development, (2) Less-Intense, Most-Compact, Less-Mixed, Less-Monocentric Development, (3) Least-Intense, Less-Compact, Most-Mixed, Most-Monocentric Development, (4) More-Intense, More-Compact, More-Mixed, Polycentric Development. Bivariate statistics demonstrated that geographic, historic, economic, demographic, and transport variables differentiate land use pattern types. Based on their multidimensional distinctions, we label the four types of metropolitan areas: Ascendants, Insulars, Redevelopers, and Cosmopolitans. |
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| Keywords: | metropolitan areas sprawl land use cluster analysis urban morphology |
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