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QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF URBAN EXPANSION IN CENTRAL CHINA [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2012 Quantifying urban expansion forms is important to understanding regional urbanization processes and urban planning. For this purpose, conventional landscape indices are commonly used for quantitative analysis of urban landscape patterns.
Y. Zeng +7 more
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Impacts of spatial scale on the delineation of spatiotemporal urban expansion
Ecological Indicators, 2021 The delineation of spatiotemporal urban expansion highly depends on the selection of moving window size. Few studies examine the effects of moving window size and the scaling mechanism when analyzing urban expansion patterns.
Rong Wang +4 more
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Urban growth in peri-urban, rural and urban areas: Mexico City
Buildings & Cities, 2023 This remote sensing study compares growth occurring in three urban types between 2005 and 2014: peri-urban, rural and urban, in a fast-growing metropolitan region west of Mexico City.
Gustavo Manuel Cruz-Bello +2 more
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Power pyramid, hidden debt, and China’s urban expansion
International Journal of Strategic Property Management, 2022 Chinese urban spatial expansion leads to inefficient use of land resources. This study uses the data of 289 cities from 2007 to 2018 and uses panel data models to test the driving mechanism of urban expansion. The study derives three conclusions. First,
Juanfeng Zhang +5 more
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Ecological Indicators, 2023 The conflict between the human-environment is more prominent in densely populated areas (DPA) where urban expansion is increasingly disturbing the ecological environment, resulting in significant damage to habitat quality (HQ).
Jianjun Tang +6 more
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Land, 2023 Megacities serve as crucial catalysts for national economic and social development, and Shanghai, one of China’s most prominent metropolitan areas, exemplifies this transformative urbanization. To study Shanghai’s urban expansion, we extracted urban land
Chen Gao +6 more
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Modelling urban expansion with cellular automata supported by urban growth intensity over time
Annals of GIS, 2023 The simulation of urban expansion has become an important means to assist urban development planning and ecological sustainable development. However, the spatial and temporal heterogeneities of urban expansion has been a major challenge for modelling ...
Jinqu Zhang +3 more
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Ecological effect of urban spatial expansion in river valleys: A case study in the main urban area of Lanzhou City [PDF]
Ziyuan Kexue, 2023 [Objective] The ecological effect of urban spatial expansion is the key problem of human-environment relationship in the process of urbanization. It is of great significance to explore the complex scientific problem of ecological effect caused by urban ...
WANG Ziyang, SHI Peiji, SHI Jing, ZHANG Xuebin, LIU Yue
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Forms of Urban Expansion of Chinese Municipalities and Provincial Capitals, 1970s–2013
Remote Sensing, 2016 Urban expansion form is the most direct manifestation of urban expansion in space. Although it has been widely and vigorously studied, relatively little attention has been paid to reveal its spatiotemporal characteristics at the administrative level over
Fang Liu, Zengxiang Zhang, Xiao Wang
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Quantifying urban expansion and its driving forces in Chengdu, western China
Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, 2023 Understanding urban sprawl and its drivers is crucial for sustainable urban development. Most studies on Chinese urbanization have focused on coastal areas, paying little attention to urban centers in western China.
Guangjie Wang +5 more
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