This article is aimad at exploring urban sprawl as a new leading behavior pattern of cities. Undoubtedly, the traditional city is changing to a landscape dominated by new urban development of low density, road networks and shopping centers. Geographic information technologies have to face the cartographic and quantitative analysis of this new urban spatial structure This article presents a meth...

This paper presents research which has defined a new typology of urban patterns (sprinkling), different from the internationally recognized standard urban sprawl, as well as various indicators that have been implemented to measure sprinkling. It is important to highlight that the damage caused to the environment and communities by urban sprinkling is much more serious and irreversible than that...

Location efficient mortgages (LEM) programs are an increasingly popular approach to combating urban sprawl. LEMs allow families who want to live in densely-populated, transit-rich communities to obtain larger mortgages with smaller downpayments than traditional underwriting guidelines allow. LEMs are premised on the proposition that homeowners in such “location efficient” areas can safely be al...

The biologically inspired Sprawl family of hexapedal robots has shown that fast and stable running is possible with only open-loop control. Proper design of the passively self-stabilizing leg structure has enabled these robots to run at speeds of up to 15 bodylengths/s and over uneven terrain. Unlike other running robots built to date, the Sprawl robots’ front and rear legs are designed to pref...

Objective. Although such measures received media attention as indicative of a nationwide rebellion against sprawl, determinants of the appearance and success of 1998 and 1999 open-space preservation ballot measures have not been investigated. We suspect that, contrary to assumptions, these are not triggered by sprawled development and represent a response limited to small, wealthy communities. ...

Beside the enormous grow of Chinas mega-cities, also small cities and big villages show up an urban sprawl that makes a monitoring essential. Especially in the eastern part of the country, forced by the economic growth, the sprawl of urban fabric is extreme. This causes a need for a frequently and rapid monitoring in order to take pace in mapping and documentation. The typical turn rate of coun...