Understanding demographic and migrational patterns constitutes a great challenge. Millions of individual decisions, motivated by economic, political, demographic, rational and/or emotional reasons underlie the high complexity of demographic dynamics. Significant advances in quantitatively understanding such complexity have been registered in recent years, as those involving the growth of cities...

Urban growth is a largely debated issue in social science. Specific forms of metropolitan expansion—including sprawl—involve multiple and fascinating research dimensions, making mixed (quali-quantitative) analysis this phenomenon particularly complex challenging at the same time. sprawl has attracting attention multidisciplinary studies defining nature, dynamics, consequences that dispersed low...

By Stephen A. Barlow, Ian A. Munn, David A. Cleaves, and David L. Evans T he potential impact of urbanization on the South’s timber supply is dramatic. Between 1960 and 1990, the South’s share of the nation’s population increased from 30.7 percent to 34.4 percent (US Department of Commerce 1992). The amount of land in the South swallowed by metropolitan areas has more than doubled, from 9.8 per...

Can tourism be the catalyst for urban preservation while permitting the continuation of urban culture? Only if local distinctiveness, rather than preserved monuments, is what attracts tourists to an historic region, argues Orba̧sli. The author advocates preservation through a planning-management approach. This approach avoids façadism (i.e., preservation of the physical elements only), and inste...

Abstract Suburbanization still remains the key urbanization process in world. Urban sprawl, as a specific manifestation of suburban morphology, belongs to urban phenomena that is very often studied but ambivalent. The ambivalence assessment results from problems weighing costs and benefits generated by sprawl. At same time, there gap international research on sprawl for households. Therefore, a...