# Weighted Urban Proliferation (WUP) 2006 (LEAC Grid), Nov. 2016

The new urban sprawl metric, named "Weighted Urban Proliferation“ (WUP) is based on the following definition of urban sprawl: the more area is built over in a given landscape (amount of built-up area) and the more dispersed this built-up area is in the landscape (spatial configuration), and the higher the uptake of built-up area per inhabitant or job (lower utilisation intensity in the built-up area), the higher the degree of urban sprawl.
Weighted Urban Proliferation (WUP) metric has three components: the percentage of built-up areas (PBA), the dispersion of the built-up areas (DIS), and land uptake per person (LUP).https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/9428d406-189d-4c6e-8779-7ff8df64be81


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