Urban green spaces play an important role in improving quality of life and sustainability in cities and require a … of a comparison of 24 European cities by deploying a multi-criteria analysis for mixed quantitative and qualitative … the green performance of European cities in the process of urban green planning and management. A comparison of urban …

This paper presents an exercise in the definition of cities from clear and explicit quantitative criteria. The city … concept is linked to the local political level, so in this sense we can talk about “administrative cities”, since they are … the number and extend of cities, other aspects such as land cover or the economic structure is absent from our analysis …

since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities … agricultural land for building. For migrants to better integrate in the cities where they work, their access and that of their …

local climate governance may support cities in developing appropriate local climate action plans. It may also inform other … policy levels to help realize the local climate protection potential. For many cities, cost savings are a primary driver for … are key barriers. We conclude that in the absence of proper regulatory frameworks, cities could focus on 'no …

fragmentation. Using a unique dataset of 249 Large Urban Zones (LUZ) across Europe, a Bayesian Model Averaging selection method is …

fragmentation and the spatial size of cities in a sample of 180 metropolitan areas in the contexts of the US and Europe in the … administrative fragmentation impacts positively on land uptake in both the United States and Europe, although to different extents …

fragmentation and the spatial size of cities in a sample of 180 metropolitan areas in the contexts of the US and Europe in the … administrative fragmentation impacts positively on land uptake in both the United States and Europe, although to different extents. …

Defenders of suburban sprawl assert that sprawl is inevitable in affluent societies, based on trends in Western Europe …. According to supporters of this Inevitability Theory, European cities have decentralized and become more car-dependent, thus … futile. This Article compares Western Europe to the United States, and criticizes the Inevitabilty Theory on the grounds that …