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. 2018 Aug 31;48(6):580–589. doi: 10.1007/s13280-018-1087-y

Table 1.

Number of articles and article ID (see, Electronic Supplementary Material for a numbered list of articles included in the review) linked to the different identified Smart Growth measures. Multiple Smart Growth measures can be applied within a single article

Smart growth measures Number of articles Article ID #
Density 20 1,3,4–13,16,17,19,21,22,24,27,28
 Population density (e.g., residential density, population density, per capita land consumption, ratio of jobs to population, population growth) 18 3,4–6,8–13,16,17,19,21,22,24,27,28
 Commercial density (e.g., employment density, business density, sale density) 2 6,8
 Physical density (e.g., building density, plot ratio, housing density, neighborhood density) 5 1,7,8,17,21
 Perceived density (e.g., crowding of buildings, crowding of people, crowding within buildings) 1 10
Land use/land cover 12 2,4,7,9,14,15,18,20,22,23,25,26
 Land cover (e.g., area of built (sealed) land cover, area of natural (vegetated) land cover, tree canopy, density of vegetation, surface albedo) 8 2,7,14,15,18,20,23,25
 Land use (e.g., residential area ratio) 5 4,9,20,22,26
Urban form 7 3,7,8,12,18,26,29
 City form (e.g., form ratio, compactness ratio, elongation ratio) 2 3,29
 Street layout (e.g., % of 4-way intersections, street network density) 4 8,18,26,29
 Urban block form (e.g., height to floor area ratio, height to depth street block, sky view factor, block size, size of heat sink) 3 7,8,12
Accessibility 4 4,9,12,26
 Accessibility (e.g., access to private yards, accessibility of residential uses to nonresidential uses) 3 4,9,12
 Proximity (e.g., distance to city center/local center, centeredness) 4 4,9,12,26
Composite 2 9,12
 Sprawl index (including centeredness, street network density, population density, accessibility of residential uses to nonresidential uses and mix of land uses)