Urban sprawl has deleterious effects on natural and man-made landscapes and therefore, on the attractiveness of visitor and tourist areas. The spread of urban land use has prompted a significant loss of biodiversity and an increasing vulnerability of fragile natural and man-made systems. A...

The present paper will develop a predictive toolkit for urban heritage in relation to urban culturalendangerment for the region of the Algarve in Portugal. The use of the Algarve as a laboratory for testing this novel methodology relies on a combined analysis of urban growth potentials and...