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Forest Transition and Metropolitan Transformations in Developed Countries: Interpreting Apparent and Latent Dynamics with Local Regression Models

Land, 2021
Metropolitan fringes in Southern Europe preserve, under different territorial contexts, natural habitats, relict woodlands, and mixed agro-forest systems acting as a sink of biodiversity and ecosystem services in ecologically vulnerable landscapes ...
Leonardo Bianchini, Rosanna Salvia, Giovanni Quaranta, Gianluca Egidi, Luca Salvati, Alvaro Marucci   +5 more
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Effect of Urban Built-Up Area Expansion on the Urban Heat Islands in Different Seasons in 34 Metropolitan Regions across China

Remote Sensing, 2022
The urban heat island (UHI) refers to the land surface temperature (LST) difference between urban areas and their undeveloped or underdeveloped surroundings.
Wenchao Han, Zhuolin Tao, Zhanqing Li, M. Cheng, Hao Fan, M. Cribb, Qi Wang   +6 more
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Exploring the Patterns and Drivers of Urban Expansion in the Texas Triangle Megaregion

Land, 2021
As the world becomes increasingly urbanized, it is vital for planners and policy-makers to understand the patterns of urban expansion and the underlying driving forces.
Jiani Guo, Ming Zhang
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Toward a Spatially Segregated Urban Growth? Austerity, Poverty, and the Demographic Decline of Metropolitan Greece

Data, 2023
Metropolitan decline in southern Europe was documented in few cases, being less intensively investigated than in other regions of the continent. Likely for the first time in recent history, the aftermath of the 2007 recession was a time period associated
Kostas Rontos, Enrico Maria Mosconi, Mattia Gianvincenzi, Simona Moretti, Luca Salvati   +4 more
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Contemporary Urban Expansion in the First Fastest Growing Metropolitan Region of China: A Multicity Study in the Pearl River Delta Urban Agglomeration from 1980 to 2015

Urban Science, 2021
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.
Shuai Xu, Yan Sun, Shuqing Zhao
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Urban expansion simulation and the spatio-temporal changes of ecosystem services, a case study in Atlanta Metropolitan area, USA

Science of the Total Environment, 2018
John C Crittenden, Zhongming Lu, Xiaolin Dou   +2 more
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Spatial and Temporal Analyses of the Expansion of Built-Up Areas in Nanjing Metropolitan Area Based on Industrial Big Data

Redai dili, 2023
With the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta as a national strategy, urban development in the Nanjing metropolitan area has entered a new stage.
Wang Yiwen, Xu Jiangang, Liu Di
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A Replacement Model of Metropolitan Expansion [PDF]

Geographical Analysis, 1983
A replacement model of metropolitan expansion is developed and empirically estimated. It is similar in structure to a Markovian model but unlike that type it balances the net inflow of households into an area against changes in the stock of housing. The model is applied to zonal data for the Toronto CMA during both 1966-71 and 1971-76 and appears to ...
openaire   +1 more source

Dynamics of Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Harare, Zimbabwe: A Case Study on the Linkage between Drivers and the Axis of Urban Expansion [PDF]

, 2019
With increasing population growth, the Harare Metropolitan Province has experienced accelerated land use and land cover (LULC) changes, influencing the city’s growth.
Marondedze, Andrew K., Schütt, Brigitta   +1 more
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New indices to capture the evolution characteristics of urban expansion structure and form

Ecological Indicators, 2021
A quantitative description is the basis for correctly understanding the urban expansion process. Previous approaches were dedicated to identifying expansion types based on the boundary sharing rate, thereby depicting the evolution of urban expansion ...
Jiafeng Liu, Limin Jiao, Boen Zhang, Gang Xu, Ludi Yang, Ting Dong, Zhibang Xu, Jing Zhong, Zhengzi Zhou   +8 more
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