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"Semi-Urban Areas in Landscape Research: A Review"

Steven J. Meeus and Hubert Gulinck

	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

	Figure 1: Ribbon-building in the Flemish countryside
	Figure 2: A typical form of urban fringe land use: retail and storage facilities in the countryside between Leuven and Brussels, Belgium.
	Figure 3: Urban sprawl (pink) creating a semi-urban area around Mechelen, Flanders region, Belgium.
	Figure 4: Urban sprawl is accompanied by an increase in impervious surfaces with well-known environmental impacts.
	Figure 5: Panorama of a semi-urban landscape seen from the hills of Sintra, north of Lisbon, Portugal.