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Latent Exurban Development: City Expansion Along the Rural-To-Urban Gradient in Growing and Declining Regions of Southern Europe

Luca Salvati Consiglio per la Ricerca e la Sperimentazione in Agricoltura Centro per lo studio delle Relazioni Pianta-Suolo (CRA-RPS), Rome, ItalyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Vittorio Gargiulo Morelli University of Delft Delft, The Netherlands
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Kostas Rontos University of the Aegean Militini, Greece
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Alberto Sabbi Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT) Rome, Italy
Pages 376-394 | Published online: 10 May 2013

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