Citation: Aran, D., Ahern, J. F., Pallares-Barbera, M.(2011). Presentation. Planning the optimum desirable land uses in peri-urban East Coast landscapes (USA) using the Aggregate-with-Outliers spatial concept. (56) 2011 Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, April 12-16, 2011.
Abstract:
Increasing the sustainability of multiple-use landscapes should be the main goal for strategic planning. Taking two historic agricultural landscapes inside the North East megalopolis, this paper is centred in finding a land use optimization model using the Aggregate-with-Outliers spatial concept.
On the surroundings of conventional urban regions, the North Pioneer Valley in Western Massachusetts and the Conestoga sub-watershed in Lancaster County Pennsylvania, are peri-urban areas appropriate to be analyzed for land use optimization planning purposes.
The application of the quantified differentials against a desirable land use distribution, gives tools allowing joint land use composition and configuration analysis for macro-diagnosing landscape. The final goal includes comparing those with the previous tests in European landscapes