Gauteng: Fighting Urban Sprawl

This essay focuses on a body of photoconceptual works from the 1960s and 1970s in which the automobile functions as a prosthetic-like aperture through which to view the world in motion. I argue that the logic of the “automotive prosthetic“ in works by Paul McCarthy, Dennis Hopper, Ed Ruscha, Jeff Wall, John Baldessari, Richard Prince, Martha Rosler, Robert Smithson, Ed Kienholz, Julian Opie, and Cory Arcangel reveals a techno-genetic understanding of conceptual art, functioning in addition and alternatively to semiotics and various philosophies of language usually associated with conceptual art. These artworks show how the automobile, movement on roads and highways, and the automotive landscape of urban sprawl have transformed the human sensorium. I surmise that the car has become a prosthetic of the human body and is a technological force in the maieusis of the posthuman subject. I offer a reading of specific works of photoconceptual art based on experience, perception, and a posthumanist subjectivity in contrast to solely understanding them according to semiotics and linguistics.

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Urban Sprawl Dan Dampaknya Pada Kualitas Lingkungan

ULTIMART Jurnal Komunikasi Visual ◽

10.31937/ultimart.v9i2.745 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 16-24

Author(s):

Irma Desiyana

Keyword(s):

Urban Sprawl

Urban Sprawl memengaruhi kualitas lingkungan, baik kualitas udara dan air. Penelitian ini menggunakan dua studi kasus dari dua kota di Indonesia yang saling bersebelahan, seperti Depok, Jawa Barat dan DKI Jakarta. Kedua kota mempunyai hubungan erat dalam pembangunan ekonomu, mobilitas masyarakat, elemen alam, perencanaan kota, dan kedua kota tersebut mempunyai populasi terbesar dan wilayah terpadat di Indonesia. Jakarta tumbuh dengan sangat cepat dan menjadi pusat perekonomian, politik, hiburan, pendidikan dan sebagainya dan diikuti oleh Depoh. Rencana Depok sebelumnya adalah sebagai daerah penyangga hijau untuj Jakarta, namun Depok telah bertumbuh menjadi kota besar. Kedua kota tersebut mempunyai kondisi yang sama, yaktu berkembang cepat tanpa perencanaan dan menciptakan urban sprawl. Beberapa fenomena negatif, seperti kemacetan, banjir, polusi udara, dan pencemaran air menurunkan kualitas lingkungan. Maka, perencana kota penting untuk mengetahui struktur keruangan kota dan bagaimana pengaruhnya pada kualitas lingkungan. Apa hubungan pertumbuhan kota berupa urban sprawl dengan kualitas lingkungan di kedua kota? Sejauh apa perencanaan kota dapat memecahkan masalah di kedua kota tersebut? Kata kunci: urban sprawl, perencanaan kota, kualitas lingkungan

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Real-Time Pseudo-Random Representation of Urban Sprawl

10.21236/ada394152 ◽

2001 ◽

Author(s):

Gregory B. Tackett

Keyword(s):

Real Time ◽

Urban Sprawl

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RANDOM RURAL URBAN SPRAWL ON AGRICULTURAL LAND IN EGYPT (PROBLEM DIMENSIONS & SOLUTION APPROACHES)

JES. Journal of Engineering Sciences ◽

10.21608/jesaun.2016.117621 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 44 (5) ◽

pp. 641-658

Author(s):

Hossam Kotb El ghourab

Keyword(s):

Urban Sprawl ◽

Agricultural Land

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Modeling the Impacts of Autonomous Vehicles on Land Use Using a LUTI Model

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13041608 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 1608

Author(s):

Rubén Cordera ◽

Soledad Nogués ◽

Esther González-González ◽

José Luis Moura

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Urban Sprawl ◽

Autonomous Vehicles ◽

Interaction Model ◽

Urban Systems ◽

Unwanted Effect ◽

Urban Center ◽

Positive Effects ◽

Current Paradigm ◽

Shed Light

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) can generate major changes in urban systems due to their ability to use road infrastructures more efficiently and shorten trip times. However, there is great uncertainty about these effects and about whether the use of these vehicles will continue to be private, in continuity with the current paradigm, or whether they will become shared (carsharing/ridesharing). In order to try to shed light on these matters, the use of a scenario-based methodology and the evaluation of the scenarios using a land use–transport interaction model (LUTI model TRANSPACE) is proposed. This model allows simulating the impacts that changes in the transport system can generate on the location of households and companies oriented to local demand and accessibility conditions. The obtained results allow us to state that, if AVs would generate a significant increase in the capacity of urban and interurban road infrastructures, the impacts on mobility and on the location of activities could be positive, with a decrease in the distances traveled, trip times, and no evidence of significant urban sprawl processes. However, if these increases in capacity are accompanied by a large augment in the demand for shared journeys by new users (young, elderly) or empty journeys, the positive effects could disappear. Thus, this scenario would imply an increase in trip times, reduced accessibilities, and longer average distances traveled, all of which could cause the unwanted effect of expelling activities from the consolidated urban center.

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Determinants of urban sprawl in Latin America: evidence from Santiago de Chile

SN Social Sciences ◽

10.1007/s43545-021-00197-4 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (8) ◽

Author(s):

Cristian Silva ◽

Francisco Vergara-Perucich

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Urban Sprawl ◽

Capital City ◽

Design And Implementation ◽

Policy Context ◽

Santiago De Chile ◽

City Regions ◽

Policy Frameworks ◽

Social And Environmental Impacts

AbstractUrban sprawl has been widely discussed in regard of its economic, political, social and environmental impacts. Consequently, several planning policies have been placed to stop—or at least restrain—sprawling development. However, most of these policies have not been successful at all as anti-sprawl policies partially address only a few determinants of a multifaceted phenomenon. This includes processes of extended suburbanisation, peri-urbanisation and transformation of fringe/belt areas of city-regions. Using as a case study the capital city of Chile—Santiago—thirteen determinants of urban sprawl are identified as interlinked at the point of defining Santiago's sprawling geography as a distinctive space that deserves planning and policy approaches in its own right. Unpacking these determinants and the policy context within which they operate is important to better inform the design and implementation of more comprehensive policy frameworks to manage urban sprawl and its impacts.

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Monitoring Urban Sprawl Using Time-Series Data: Famagusta Region of Northern Cyprus

SAGE Open ◽

10.1177/21582440211007465 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 215824402110074

Author(s):

Kamyar Fuladlu ◽

Müge Riza ◽

Mustafa Ilkan

Keyword(s):

Time Series ◽

Urban Sprawl ◽

Census Data ◽

Time Series Data ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Geographical Information ◽

Series Data ◽

Great Success ◽

European Cities ◽

Northern Cyprus

Monitoring urban sprawl is a controversial topic among scholars. Many studies have tried to employ various methods for monitoring urban sprawl in cases of North American and Northern and Western European cities. Although numerous methods have been applied with great success in various developed countries, they are predominantly impractical for cases of developing Mediterranean European cities that lack reliable census data. Besides, the complexity of the methods made them difficult to perform in underfunded situations. Therefore, this study aims to develop a new multidimensional method that researchers and planners can apply readily in developing Mediterranean European cities. The new method was tested in the Famagusta region of Northern Cyprus, which has been experiencing unplanned growth for the past half-century. In support of this proposal, a detailed review of the existing literature is presented with an emphasis on urban sprawl characteristics. Four characteristics were chosen to monitor urban sprawl’s development in the Famagusta region. The method was structured based on a time-series (2001, 2006, 2011, and 2016) dataset that used remote sensing data and geographical information systems to monitor the urban sprawl. Based on the findings, the Famagusta region experienced rapid growth during the last 15 years. The lack of a masterplan resulted in the uncontrolled expansion of the city in the exurban areas. The development configuration was polycentric and linear in form with single-use composition. Together, the expansion and configuration manifested as more built-up area, scattered development, and increased automobile dependency.

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