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

Socio-spatial segregation is the physical separation of different social, economic, or
demographic groups within a geographic space, often resulting in unequal access to …

Dispersed urbanization has expanded into rural land worldwide. The present work focused
on the Athens' metropolitan area, the capital of Greece, discussing the potential role of a …

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 …

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 …

Mixing peculiar socioeconomic conditions and demographic contexts, urban decline in
Mediterranean Europe was less extensively documented than in other regions of the …

Land use/land cover (LULC) has changed dramatically in the peri-urban area (PUA) of
greater Cairo (GC) since the Egyptian revolution of 2011. This study analyzes LULC change …