Journal
URBAN STUDIES
Volume 53, Issue 15, Pages 3172-3188Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0042098015608568
Keywords
Bucharest; impervious surface area; post-socialist transformation; remote sensing; urbanisation
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- University of Bucharest, UB [1322/2012]
- NASA IDS grant [NNX12AM89G]
- NASA [NNX12AM89G, 69725] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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An important challenge for the research on post-socialist big cities is to identify the mechanisms of their uncontrolled urban space growth. This analysis is focused on the built-up urban space affected by transformations from a centrally planned to a market-based economy. Post-socialist changes in Bucharest are clearly reflected in the dynamics of built-up space. Land cover dynamics were evaluated using spectral mixture analysis of Landsat 5 TM (Thematic Mapper) data to map percent impervious surface area in 1988 and 2010. Change analysis reveals (1) a decrease of built space in central and peri-central areas of Bucharest, (2) an expansion of new residential areas to the south, (3) land fragmentation to the east and southeast, (4) a mixture of densities to the north, and (5) the role of the ring road in spurring recent development. A key challenge facing Bucharest is the disposition and repurposing of the lands covered by old large housing estates and shuttered heavy industries.
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