Characterizing urban form by means of the Urban Metric System

Luc-Normand Tellier

Land Use Policy, 2021, vol. 111, issue C

Abstract: One of the most important challenges of land-use regulation relates to the control of urban sprawl. The Urban Metric System (UMS) has been conceived in order: 1- to standardize the definitions of central city, agglomeration, metropolitan area, megacity, and other urban-area concepts; 2- to characterize and compare urban areas; 3- to measure urban sprawl. This paper focusses on the step-by-step application of the continuous version of UMS. It also presents a new global urban sprawl index.

Keywords: Urban metrics; Vector fields; Weberian forces; Land-rent theory; Urban areas; Urban boundaries; Urban hierarchy; Urban sprawl (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104672

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