Potential driving factors of urban transformations of Austin over 25 years

In this study, the Austin metropolitan area, Texas, U.S., one of the fastest urban transformations and transformations regions, is selected to test the hypothesis that spatial planning and policies are important factors of urban transformations. Despite ample previous work in understanding the interactions between human and urban form transformation at specific areas, the actual interventions and outcomes of planning and policies (e.g., ‘smart growth’) on urban forms have been poorly measured. In this study, the potential influencing factors of urban transformations of Austin over 25 years were selected and collected.本研究选取美国德克萨斯州奥斯汀都会区——该区域属于全美城市转型速度最快的地区之一——作为研究样本，旨在验证“空间规划与政策是驱动城市转型的核心影响因素”这一研究假说。尽管过往已有诸多研究针对特定区域内人类活动与城市形态转型的互动关系展开了深入探讨，但规划与政策（例如精明增长（smart growth））对城市形态产生的实际干预举措与最终实施成效，却始终缺乏精准有效的测度手段。本研究收集并筛选了过去25年间影响奥斯汀城市转型的各类潜在驱动因素。