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Spatiotemporal Characterization of the Urban Expansion Patterns in the Yangtze River Delta Region
Remote Sensing, 2021 Characterizing urban expansion patterns is of great significance to planning and decision-making for urban agglomeration development. This study examined the urban expansion in the entire Yangtze River Delta Region (YRDR) with its land-use data of six ...
Ziqi Yu +8 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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Land, 2023 In recent years, the rapid improvement in the urbanization level of the Central Plains urban agglomeration is bound to bring about significant changes in urban land expansion and economic development.
Zhaolan Wang +3 more
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Containing urban expansion in China: the case of Nanjing [PDF]
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2019 Rapid urban expansion often has negative social, environmental, and ecological consequences. In China, urbanization rates have increased rapidly over the past decades, commensurate with economic growth. This article evaluates how Chinese urban planning was effective in containing urban expansion.
Shao, Zinan +4 more
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Review of Research on Non-Conforming Urban Expansion: Measurement, Interpretation, and Governance
Land, 2022 Spatial plans are widely used as a basic tool for regulating urban expansion. However, land development beyond zones planned for urban development is prevalent worldwide, posing a serious challenge to the implementation of spatial plans and their ...
Xiaoqiang Shen +3 more
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Quantifying the drivers of urban expansion in Nepal
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2020 The Tarai region of Nepal is regarded as the food bowl of Nepal, and yet urban areas have increased in size at an average annual rate of 12% for the 30 years since 1988/1989, largely at the expense of prime agricultural land. Nepal is recognized internationally as highly sensitive to food security with 40% of its population undernourished.
Rijal, S, Rimal, B, Stork, N, Sharma, HP
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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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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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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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