Land Use Mix in Functional Urban Areas of Selected Central European Countries from 2006 to 2012

Dawid Kudas, Agnieszka Wnęk () and Lucia Tátošová
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Dawid Kudas: Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, Department of Geodesy, University of Agriculture in Krakow, al. Mickiewicza 21, 31-120 Kraków, Poland
Agnieszka Wnęk: Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Land Surveying, Department of Geodesy, University of Agriculture in Krakow, al. Mickiewicza 21, 31-120 Kraków, Poland
Lucia Tátošová: Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Engineering, Institute of Landscape Engineering, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra, Tr. A. Hlinku 2, 949 76 Nitra, Slovakia

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 22, 1-17

Abstract: The land use mix (LUM) is among the critical issues in spatial planning because it can determine the occurrence and structure of various land use and cover types (LUC) and prevent any adverse patterns. The paper focuses on the LUM in functional urban areas (FUAs) in Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary. The research employed Urban Atlas (UA) data on LUC in 2006 and 2012 to characterise LUM in the FUAs. The research follows the division of the FUA into the urban area (urban core, UC) and its functional surroundings (commuting zones, CZ). We further characterised the phenomena investigated for the entire country, region, and Europe using Corine Land Cover (CLC) data. The LUM was quantified with the entropy index (EI), dissimilarity index (DI), and multi-dimensional balance index (MBI). The EI demonstrated that the investigated FUAs went through more substantial LUM changes than the 27 European Union member states (EU27) from 2006 to 2012. Moreover, it has been demonstrated that LUM overspill was more intensive in CZs than in UCs on the regional and national levels. We found out that urbanised areas grew at the expense of agricultural areas in both UCs and CZs with similar dynamics in 2006–2012 in all the analysed countries.

Keywords: land use; land use mix; functional urban area; entropy; dissimilarity index (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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