Helmut Haberl

Mapping long-term urban–rural sprawl trajectories at 100 m spatial resolution: Austria’s transition from low to high sprawl, 1975–2020

Urban sprawl—the decentralization of housing, employment, and economic activities into scattered, low-density settlement patterns—poses a major challenge to achieving SDG 11: Sustainable cities and communities. Yet, its long-term development trajectories remain insufficiently und...