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Cristian Tosa, Andrei Mitrea, Hitomi Sato, Tomio Miwa, Takayuki Morikawa
This paper concentrates explicitly on examining the structural and functional transformations occurring within the metropolitan area of Bucharest, resulting from sustained economic growth during the past quarter century, by conducting a time analysis, sp...
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Kyle Farrell
Although the urban transition is a universal event that unfolds in all countries, the determinants, patterns, and outcomes do not necessarily follow a uniform process. With the urban transition being basically completed in developed countries around the ...
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Le Chen, Leshui Yu, Jiangbin Yin and Meijun Xi
In the new period of ups and downs in the international environment, it is necessary to seek a new endogenous impetus for the economic growth of urban agglomerations. Population agglomeration provides a new idea to explain the spatial differences in the ...
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Xinxin Huang, Gang Xu and Fengtao Xiao
As one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, it is sensible to analysis historical urban land use characteristics and project the potentials of urban sustainable development for a smart city. The cellular automaton (CA) model is the widely applied in ...
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Shifa Ma, Haiyan Jiang, Xiwen Zhang, Dixiang Xie, Yunnan Cai, Yabo Zhao and Guanwei Wang
Many countries, including China, have implemented the spatial government policy widely known as urban growth boundary (UGB) for managing future urban growth. However, few studies have asked why we need UGB, especially pre-evaluating the utility of UGB fo...
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Andrea Pace, Maria Attard, Michel Camilleri and Gianluca Valentino
Land is a natural resource, and settlement development is central for human activities. The growth of settlements comes at the expense of natural and agricultural land. Understanding urban growth dynamics, defined in this study as new urban development, ...
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Xiaoming Man and Yanguang Chen
Fractal dimension curves of urban growth can be modeled with sigmoid functions, including logistic function and quadratic logistic function. Different types of logistic functions indicate different spatial dynamics. The fractal dimension curves of urban ...
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Yun Song, Dominic Stead and Martin de Jong
New towns are a major form of urban growth in China. In recent years, increasing numbers of large new town projects have been planned and built in and around existing cities. These new town projects have frequently been employed by city governments as ce...
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Pawinee Iamtrakul, Apinya Padon and Sararad Chayphong
The urban built environment, comprising structures, roads, and various facilities, plays a key role in the formation of urban heat islands, which inflict considerable damage upon human society. This phenomenon is particularly pronounced in urban areas ch...
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Mohammad Karimi Firozjaei, Naeim Mijani, Saman Nadizadeh Shorabeh, Yasin Kazemi, Yasser Ebrahimian Ghajari, Jamal Jokar Arsanjani, Majid Kiavarz and Seyed Kazem Alavipanah
Quantification of Surface Ecological Status (SES) changes is of great importance for understanding human exposure and adaptability to the environment. This study aims to assess the effect of urban growth on spatial and temporal changes of SES over a set ...
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Sameeh Alarabi and Fawaz Alasmari
Small cities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia face the challenges of adequately providing for their citizens and maintaining and growing their population. This study of small cities in Saudi Arabia provides insights into the prevalent challenges faced by s...
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Oliver Harig, Robert Hecht, Dirk Burghardt and Gotthard Meinel
Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) is a growth management policy that designates specific areas where growth should be concentrated in order to avoid urban sprawl. The objective of such a boundary is to protect agricultural land, open spaces and the natural env...
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Changqing Sui and Wei Lu
The urban fringe, as a part of an urban spatial form, plays a considerably major role in urban expansion and shrinking. After decades of rapid development, Chinese cities have advanced from a simple expansion stage to an expansion?shrinking-coexistence s...
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Christina Kakderi, Eleni Oikonomaki and Ilektra Papadaki
The COVID-19 pandemic has put lifestyles in question, changed daily routines, and limited citizen freedoms that seemed inalienable before. A human activity that has been greatly affected since the beginning of the health crisis is mobility. Focusing on m...
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Mihail Eva, Alexandra Cehan and Alexandra Lazar
EU post-socialist countries are nowadays the epicenter of urban shrinkage, despite economic growth trajectories reported during the last decades. However, systematic assessments of urban shrinkage patterns for this part of the continent are surprisingly ...
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Filip Suchon and Justyna Olesiak
This paper presents the development of the public space of Nowy Sacz, taking into account the space syntax analysis of the historical maps of the city and the structure of its development. Nowy Sacz is a city located in southern Poland, with over 80,000 ...
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Shuai Xu, Yan Sun and Shuqing Zhao
Contemporary urbanization in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) Urban Agglomeration is the epitome of China?s urbanization process as the PRD is the first fastest growing metropolitan region of China. Here, we mapped and quantified the spatiotemporal dynamics o...
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Giulio Giovannoni
The paper attempts to evaluate Oregon?s and Portland?s growth management policies as for their tradeoffs between effectiveness in containing urban sprawl and impacts on housing markets and on property values. Carruthers argued that in order to correctly ...
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Nana Yaw Danquah Twumasi, Chikondi Chisenga, Nayyer Saleem, Neema Nicodemus Lyimo and Orhan Altan
Decentralization problems in Africa have caused some infrastructure disparity between country capitals and distant districts. In Ghana, less public investment has created a gap between implementation results and theoretical benefits. Spectral indices are...
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Thony Huera-Lucero, Adela Salas-Ruiz, Daysi Changoluisa and Carlos Bravo-Medina
The peri-urban area of Puyo, where agricultural, urban and conservation logics are mixed, is a contested area in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Rapid urban growth and agricultural activities are the main threats to the conservation of its biodiversity. To promot...
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