What Happens in the City When Long-Term Urban Expansion and (Un)Sustainable Fringe Development Occur: The Case Study of Rome
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/10/4/231" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/10/4/231</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi10040231" target="_blank" >10.3390/ijgi10040231</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
What Happens in the City When Long-Term Urban Expansion and (Un)Sustainable Fringe Development Occur: The Case Study of Rome
Original language description
This study investigates long-term landscape transformations (1949-2016) in urban Rome, Central Italy, through a spatial distribution of seven metrics (core, islet, perforation, edge, loop, bridge, branch) derived from a Morphological Spatial Pattern Analysis (MSPA) analyzed separately for seven land-use classes (built-up areas, arable land, crop mosaic, vineyards, olive groves, forests, pastures). A Principal Component Analysis (PCA) has been finally adopted to characterize landscape structure at 1949 and 2016. Results of the MSPA demonstrate how both natural and agricultural land-uses have decreased following urban expansion. Moreover, the percent 'core' area of each class declined substantially, although with different intensity. These results clearly indicate 'winners' and 'losers' after long-term landscape transformations: urban settlements and forests belong to the former category, the remaining land-use classes (mostly agricultural) belong to the latter category. Descriptive statistics and multivariate exploratory techniques finally documented the intrinsic complexity characteristic of actual landscapes. The findings of this study also demonstrate how settlements have expanded chaotically over the study area, reflecting a progressive 'fractalization' and inhomogeneity of fringe landscapes, with negative implications for metropolitan sustainability at large. These transformations were unable to leverage processes of settlement and economic re-agglomeration around sub-centers typical of polycentric development in the most advanced socioeconomic contexts.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10508 - Physical geography
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
ISSN
2220-9964
e-ISSN
2220-9964
Volume of the periodical
10
Issue of the periodical within the volume
4
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
13
Pages from-to
231
UT code for WoS article
000643062900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85106535203