ABSTRACT

Urban regions require planning tools in order to manage agricultural areas under urban pressure. The aim of our paper is to test an analytical framework that combines both the composition in urban and agricultural land covers and their spatial configuration into four general agri-urban patterns: isolated fields, urban belt fields, periurban agricultural areas and rural areas. We evaluated the spatial distribution and the changes of such patterns in the short-term (2003–2011) starting from Spot images for the case study of Pisa, Italy. The results indicate an increase of the most urban patterns despite continuing to have cash crops, a stability of periurban agricultural land patterns although highly fragmented, and a decrease of the rural agricultural land patterns. The applied methodology can help to identify new measures and actions suitable in order to strengthen the relationships between city and agriculture existing in urban regions.

摘要

城市地区需要规划工具，以便在城市压力下管理农业地区。本文的目的是测试一个分析框架，该分析框架将城市和农业用地覆盖物的组成及其空间配置结合为四种一般的农业-城市模式：孤立地带，城市带地带，郊区农业区和农村地区。从意大利比萨的案例研究开始，我们从Spot图像开始评估了短期（2003-2011年）的空间分布和这种模式的变化。结果表明，尽管继续种植经济作物，但大多数城市格局仍在增加；郊区农业土地格局虽然高度分散，但仍保持稳定；农村农业土地格局却在减少。