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"Semi-Urban Areas in Landscape Research: A Review"
Steven J. Meeus and Hubert Gulinck
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Abstract
1
Introduction
2
Reviewing semi-urban areas: methods and summary
2.1
Methods used when reviewing
2.2
Research programs
2.3
Study areas
3
Definitions and theories
3.1
The semi-urban condition
3.2
The “divide approach”
3.3
The “dynamic edge”: the urban fringe
3.4
The dynamics approach: urban sprawl
3.5
Toward a more holistic approach: the semi- and peri-urban landscape
3.6
Semi-urban areas in fast developing countries: Desakota
3.7
Development models for fringe, sprawl, and semi-urban areas
4
Research issues concerning semi-urban landscapes
4.1
Environmental impacts
4.2
Detecting and measuring fringe, sprawl and semi-urban landscapes
4.3
Sustainability and sprawl, semi-urban areas and urban fringes
5
Conclusions
6
Acknowledgements
A
Landscape research on semi-urban areas, conditions and dynamics: A literature summary
References
Footnotes
Figures
Tables
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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank Valerie Dewaelheyns and Kirsten Bomans for the many discussions and viewpoints about semi-urban areas and the two anonymous reviewers for their very useful comments.