How To Tell If You Are Winning The War On Urban Sprawl

Studying how urban form changes over time, this study evaluates the success of a city with one of the nation's leading anti-sprawl initiatives.

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April 14, 2004, 8:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

Although many have written about urban sprawl, few have sought to measure it. In this article, we present several quantitative measures of urban form and compute these for neighborhoods of varying age in Washington County, the western portion of the Portland, Oregon, metropolitan area. [PDF, 16 pages, 1MB]

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

FULL STORY: Measuring Urban Form

Tuesday, April 13, 2004 in Journal Of The American Planning Association

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