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Urban sprawl and its financial cost: - A conceptual framework

Urban sprawl has been recognized as an urban expansion which leads to undesirable impacts in terms of sacrifice of farmland and loss of amenity benefits from open space on the urban fringe.Integral to the negative impacts of sprawl is the higher financial costs that have to be incurred mainly throug...

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Main Authors: Osman, Shahriza, Nawawi, Abdul Hadi, Abdullah, Jamalunlaili
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Language:English
Published: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2008
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HD Industries. Land use. Labor
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spelling my.uum.repo.107162016-04-26T06:52:24Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/10716/ Urban sprawl and its financial cost: - A conceptual framework Osman, Shahriza Nawawi, Abdul Hadi Abdullah, Jamalunlaili HD Industries. Land use. Labor Urban sprawl has been recognized as an urban expansion which leads to undesirable impacts in terms of sacrifice of farmland and loss of amenity benefits from open space on the urban fringe.Integral to the negative impacts of sprawl is the higher financial costs that have to be incurred mainly through expenses related to the physical development in an unplanned manner.A framework of understanding sprawl and its financial cost in a developing country’s context namely Malaysia is proposed based on four (4) strategic steps namely, sprawl identification, measurement, decision and financial analysis utilizing the differential costs approach by comparing financial costs of development under unplanned sprawl and a planned strategy. The framework would provide a structured insight into quantifying the financial costs of sprawl to guide economists and urban planners in making a decision pertaining to urban development. Canadian Center of Science and Education 2008-10 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by http://repo.uum.edu.my/10716/1/9.pdf Osman, Shahriza and Nawawi, Abdul Hadi and Abdullah, Jamalunlaili (2008) Urban sprawl and its financial cost: - A conceptual framework. Asian Social Science, 4 (10). pp. 39-50. ISSN 1911-2017 http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ass/index
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topic HD Industries. Land use. Labor
spellingShingle HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Osman, Shahriza
Nawawi, Abdul Hadi
Abdullah, Jamalunlaili
Urban sprawl and its financial cost: - A conceptual framework
description Urban sprawl has been recognized as an urban expansion which leads to undesirable impacts in terms of sacrifice of farmland and loss of amenity benefits from open space on the urban fringe.Integral to the negative impacts of sprawl is the higher financial costs that have to be incurred mainly through expenses related to the physical development in an unplanned manner.A framework of understanding sprawl and its financial cost in a developing country’s context namely Malaysia is proposed based on four (4) strategic steps namely, sprawl identification, measurement, decision and financial analysis utilizing the differential costs approach by comparing financial costs of development under unplanned sprawl and a planned strategy. The framework would provide a structured insight into quantifying the financial costs of sprawl to guide economists and urban planners in making a decision pertaining to urban development.
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author Osman, Shahriza
Nawawi, Abdul Hadi
Abdullah, Jamalunlaili
author_facet Osman, Shahriza
Nawawi, Abdul Hadi
Abdullah, Jamalunlaili
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title Urban sprawl and its financial cost: - A conceptual framework
title_short Urban sprawl and its financial cost: - A conceptual framework
title_full Urban sprawl and its financial cost: - A conceptual framework
title_fullStr Urban sprawl and its financial cost: - A conceptual framework
title_full_unstemmed Urban sprawl and its financial cost: - A conceptual framework
title_sort urban sprawl and its financial cost: - a conceptual framework
publisher Canadian Center of Science and Education
publishDate 2008
url http://repo.uum.edu.my/10716/1/9.pdf
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