https://metropolitics.org/ Favoriser les débats et confronter les savoirs et les savoir-faire sur la ville, l'architecture et les territoires. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://metropolitics.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH20/siteon0-bf96f.png?1760617828 https://metropolitics.org/ 20 144 https://metropolitics.org/The-mis-measurement-of.html https://metropolitics.org/The-mis-measurement-of.html 2011-05-11T05:10:00Z text/html en Anne Lambert & translated by Eric Rosencrantz urban sprawl statistics periurban rural <p>(Peri)urban sprawl is unanimously decried as a cause for economic, environmental and social concern. And yet defining the phenomenon itself is a complicated undertaking that significantly affects the measurement thereof. <br class='autobr' /> The “periurban” realm, whose rapid expansion since the 1960s has caused widespread concern, is difficult to grasp owing to its ambiguous nature, somewhere between urban and rural. Incidentally, the term “periurbanization” has only latterly gained currency in the French</p> - <a href="https://metropolitics.org/-Debates-.html" rel="directory">Debates</a> / <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-urban-sprawl-+.html" rel="tag">urban sprawl</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-statistics-+.html" rel="tag">statistics</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-periurban-+.html" rel="tag">periurban</a>, <a href="https://metropolitics.org/+-rural-+.html" rel="tag">rural</a>