Rethinking Urban Sprawl by OECD

Author:OECD
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Urban, Rural and Regional Development/Transport/Economics/Environment
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2018-06-13T16:00:00+00:00

Slovenia’s two functional urban areas, Ljubljana and Maribor, are relatively sprawled. They are very decentralised, fragmented and sparsely populated (panel a). The country average of fragmentation and decentralisation are the highest recorded in the study, 54% and 22% higher than the OECD average respectively. Average urban population density is also low, less than half of the average OECD country.

Evolution of sprawl over time shows, however, some slightly encouraging trends. Between 1990 and 2014, Slovenian urban areas have densified by about 16%, as shown in panel b. Cities have also become somewhat less decentralised in that period, while variation of urban population density (dispersion) has declined by about 8%.

Panel c and panel d show that the way urban built surfaces and population are distributed across different population density segments has remained relatively stable since 1990. The densification observed in the examined period has not been translated in a noticeable reduction of the share of urban land and population in areas of low-to-moderate density (between 150-3 500 inhabitants per km2).

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