Abstract
Urban sprawl limitations are objectives of public policy of all European Community documents referring to urban and territorial planning. Nowadays clear and stable boundaries between the areas of towns built during the communist period are replaced by their fragmentation and perpetual transformation. Presently, the strategies and instruments of urban sprawl control depend largely on the legal tools and the efficiency of the cooperation between local public administrations in urban and metropolitan areas.
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Authors Affiliations
University of Bucharest, Faculty of Geography, Bucharest, Romania
Email: b_suditu@yahoo.fr
References
European Environment Agency 2006, ‘Urban sprawl in Europe. The ignored challenge’, in EEA Report, no.10 www.eea.europa.eu.
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Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development 2007, Leipzig Charter on Sustainable European Cities, Agreed on the occasion of the Informal Ministerial Meeting on Urban Development and Territorial Cohesion, Leipzig.
Suditu B., 2010, Urban Sprawl Characteristics and Typologies in Romania, in HUMAN GEOGRAPHIES – Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography (2010) 4.2, 79-87.
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