Land-use changes and urban sprawl have transformed European cities, with a direct impact
on both metropolitan structures and socioeconomic functions. However, these processes …

A multi-criteria approach based on descriptive, correlation and multivariate statistics and
mathematical morphology was proposed to investigate long-term morphological changes in …

In the recent past, sustainable development has been considered a major issue for urban
and regional studies. Adaptive reuse appears to be a practical solution for sustainable urban …

Swimming pools are together an exemplificative outcome of urban sprawl and an indicator
of socio-spatial polarizations in metropolitan regions. A comparative analysis of the spatial …

Urban form characterizes the spatial structure of fixed elements within a city, which affects
daily life and has significant influence on environmental sustainability. Measuring the …

The present study presents a multidimensional analysis of land-use efficiency in terms of per-
capita built-up area over 417 metropolitan regions from 27 European countries. The study …

Metropolitan growth in Europe has resulted in drastic changes of urban forms, socio-spatial
structures and land-use patterns due to sequential processes of urbanization …

Abstract Analysis of changes over time in the spatial structure of housing prices provides
reliable information to infer latent patterns and processes of urban growth. Although the …

Building activity at the metropolitan scale reflects socioeconomic transformations
increasingly dependent on place-specific factors. The present study investigates height …

Economic expansion indirectly promotes class diversification at the neighbourhood scale
with a consequent reduction of social divides at the regional scale. To verify this working …