Introduction
The Historical Deveopment of the Nation's Urban Areas ........... 1
Roger F. Auch, William Acevedo, and Janis L. Taylor
Factors Affecting Urban Land-Use Change
Cultural and Demographic Factors in Urban Decentralization
in the United States-A Historical Overview ..................... 13
Alexander von Hoffman and John Felkner
Demographic Drivers of Lakeshore Urbanization in the
Ozarks ......................................................... 25
Sonya Glavac
Economic Aspects of Urban Decentralization in Historical
Perspective .................................................... 33
Alexander von Hoffman and John Felkner
General Trends Regarding Aggregate Materials for Urban
Development, With a Suggested Method for the Analysis
of Aggregates Distribution ..................................... 45
Dalia Varanka
Quantifying Landscape Change
Wrestling Sprawl to the Ground—Defining and
Measuring an Elusive Concept ................................... 55
George Galster, Royce Hanson, Michael R. Ratcliffe,
Harold Wolman, Stephen Coleman, and Jason Freihage
Measuring Urban Sprawl and Extent Through Multitemporal
Imperviousness Mapping ......................................... 59
George Xian, Limin Yang, Jacqueline M. Klaver,
and Nazmul Hossain
An Assessment of Impervious-Surface Measurement Methods ........ 65
Ј. Terrence Slonecker and Janet S. Tilley
Comparing Impervious-Cover Densities on the Basis
of Land-Use Types Between Sister Cities on the United
States/Mexico Border ........................................... 79
Jean Parcher
The Use of Spatial Analytical Techniques to Identify
Potential Brownfields Sites .................................... 87
Janet S. Tilley, Robin Paul, Terrance Slonecker,
and Ellen Walkowiak
Road Densities for Urban Areas in the Conterminous United
States ......................................................... 97
Raymond D. Watts, John McCammon, Roger Compton,
Carl Rich, and Tom Owens
Quantifying Urban Intensity in Drainage Basins for
Assessing Stream Ecological Conditions ........................ 101
Gerard McMahon and Thomas F. Cuffney
Regional Trends in Urban Land-Use Change
Analyzing Albuquerque's Landscape Evolution in the
20th and 21st Centuries ....................................... 113
David J. Hester
Change to Urban, Agricultural, and Forested Land in
Central and Southern Maryland From 1850-1990 .................. 129
Janis L. Taylor and William Acevedo
Regional Landscape Change in the Northern Colorado
Front Range ................................................... 139
Carol S. Mladinich
A 30-Year Study of Urban Dynamics for the Municipality
of Anchorage, Alaska, 1970-2000 ............................... 153
Carl J. Markon
Consequences and Impacts of Urbanization
The Effects of Urbanization on Discharge and
Suspended-Sediment Concentrations in a Southern
California River .............................................. 163
Jonathan A. Warrick and Kevin M. Orzech
Changes in Anthropogenic Impervious Surfaces,
Precipitation, and Daily Streamflow Discharge-A
Historical Perspective in a Mid-Atlantic Subwatershed ......... 171
David В. Jennings, and S. Taylor Jarnagin
Urban Growth and Seagrass Distribution Trends in
Tampa Bay, Florida ............................................ 185
Mike Crane and George Xian
An Overview of the Stressors and Ecological Impacts
Associated with Regional and Global Patterns of
Population, Land-Use, and Land-Cover Change ................... 189
S. Taylor Jarnagin
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