Characterized by expensive housing, high socioeconomic status, and topographic relief, Upper Sonoran Lifestyle communities are found primarily along the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) in the Phoenix, Arizona metro area. Communities like these sprawl into the wildlands in the United States Southwest, creating a distinct urban fringe. This article, through locational comparison, introduces and ev...

Spatial Models of Morning Commute Consistent with Realistic Traffic Behavior by Alejandro Lago Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering — Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley Carlos F. Daganzo, Chair Urban planners are increasingly concerned about the sprawling suburban development in metropolitan areas around the world, which they often blame for growing traffic co...

Urban sprawl in Latin America is described as one of the major problems ‘the growth machine’. As a reaction, most planning policies are based on anti-sprawl narratives, while practice, urban has been thoroughly consolidated by all tiers government. In this paper – and using capital city Chile, Santiago, case study we challenge these politics light emerging environmental values associated meanin...

Geometric scaling predicts that stresses on limb bones and muscles should increase with body size. Mammals counter this size-related increase in stress partially through changes in bone geometry, but largely through changes in posture, with larger species having a more erect stance. However, the ability to counter size-related stresses in this fashion may be limited to those taxa that have a pa...

Intensive urban land use has been proposed as a method to promote sustainable development in the context of rapid sprawl. However, consensus not reached on whether this approach is beneficial for ecology and compatible with suitable living conditions. Exploring issue China will help high-quality development. Extant research mainly explored effects intensive quality life, ecology, urban-land-use...

Collaboration between coastal communities and sprawling metropolises helps the drive to meet UN targets.

The effects of incline (vertical versus horizontal) on spatio-temporal gait characteristics (stride and step length, frequency, duty factor, degree of sprawling) were measured over a range of speeds in a ground-dwelling (Eublepharis macularius) and a climbing (Gekko gecko) species of gecko. Surprisingly, the climbing species also performs very well when moving on the horizontal substratum. In t...


 Conventional description, interpretation and design processes for public space enter into crisis in the geography of 20th-century sprawling city denoted by enclosures. In this complex geography, often coinciding with that drosscape, heterotopias deviation raise thorny issues contemporary urban landscape. Role shape these now obsolete heritages must be rethought starting enclosure walls, ...

Traffic congestion is an ever-increasing issue across urban environments in the US. One potential mitigation strategy to improve our understanding of how geographical patterns land use influence congestion. Unfortunately, there no consensus regarding if more sprawling or dense morphologies help mitigate issues. To potentially clarify conflicting findings previous studies, we used a detailed spa...