We present a theoretical model of residential growth that emphasises the path-dependent nature of urban sprawl patterns. The model is founded on the monocentric urban economic model and uses a cellular automata (CA) approach to introduce endogenous neighbourhood effects. Households are assumed...

The objective of this paper is to present the development of quantitative, spatially explicit, and alternative scenarios of future urban land use in Europe. The scenario-construction methodology is based on three steps: (1) an interpretation of four global-scale storylines describing in...

In this paper we report the results of a study on secondary school planning made within the framework of Coimbra’s Educational Charter. Coimbra is a medium-sized municipality of 320 km<font=-2>²</font> and 150 000 inhabitants located in the center-littoral region of Portugal. The planning problem addressed...</font=-2>