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Isaac Oluoch
Over the past two decades, there has been increasing research on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and geographic information technologies for monitoring and mapping varying phenomena on the Earth?s surface. At the same time, there has been growing...
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Feng Zhang, Pei Zhang, Miao Wu, Tiantian Wang, Liyue Gao and Yonghui Cheng
Cultural space (CS) holds significant importance for inheriting regional culture, serving people?s lives, and boosting sustainable community development. In this study, based on the research case of the Hanzhong section of the Hanjiang River Basin (HSHRB...
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Maxwell Owusu, Ryan Engstrom, Dana Thomson, Monika Kuffer and Michael L. Mann
Reliable data on slums or deprived living conditions remain scarce in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Global high-resolution maps of deprived areas are fundamental for both research- and evidence-based policies. Existing mapping methods ar...
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Jota Samper and Weichun Liao
This article challenges the narrow definition of informal settlements as solely lacking a formal framework, which overlooks the dynamic city-making and urban design processes within these areas. Communities? self-building processes and areas? constant gr...
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Hazrat Bilale Salamagy, Fernando Brandão Alves and Clara Pimenta do Vale
The current dimension of informal settlements in Maputo requires the definition of action models framed by empirical evidence, taking advantage of pre-existing socio-spatial and environmental conditions to define physical interventions through sustainabl...
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Saman Ghaffarian and Sobhan Emtehani
Rapid urbanization and increasing population in cities with a large portion of them settled in deprived neighborhoods, mostly defined as slum areas, have escalated inequality and vulnerability to natural disasters. As a result, monitoring such areas is e...
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Monika Kuffer, Jon Wang, Dana R. Thomson, Stefanos Georganos, Angela Abascal, Maxwell Owusu and Sabine Vanhuysse
Routine and accurate data on deprivation are needed for urban planning and decision support at various scales (i.e., from community to international). However, analyzing information requirements of diverse users on urban deprivation, we found that data a...
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Dana R. Thomson, Andrea E. Gaughan, Forrest R. Stevens, Gregory Yetman, Peter Elias and Robert Chen
Low- and middle-income country cities face unprecedented urbanization and growth in slums. Gridded population data (e.g., ~100 × 100 m) derived from demographic and spatial data are a promising source of population estimates, but face limitations in slum...
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Patricia Lustosa Brito, Monika Kuffer, Mila Koeva, Julio Cesar Pedrassoli, Jiong Wang, Federico Costa and Anderson Dias de Freitas
The COVID-19 health emergency is impacting all of our lives, but the living conditions and urban morphologies found in poor communities make inhabitants more vulnerable to the COVID-19 outbreak as compared to the formal city, where inhabitants have the r...
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Ale? Urban, Katrin Burkart, Jan Kyselý, Christian Schuster, Eva Plavcová, Hana Hanzlíková, Petr ?tepánek and Tobia Lakes
The study examines spatial patterns of effects of high temperature extremes on cardiovascular mortality in the Czech Republic at a district level during 1994?2009. Daily baseline mortality for each district was determined using a single location-stratifi...
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