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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
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Though the city of Brussels in Belgium is administratively not part of the Flanders region, it is geographically seen ‘surrounded’ by Flanders and had thus great impact on this region when considering the urban related topics discussed in this paper.