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Containing urban expansion in China: the case of Nanjing [PDF]
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2020 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.
Janssen-Jansen, Lenoie +4 more
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A Morphological Approach to Predicting Urban Expansion [PDF]
Transactions in GIS, 2014 Many methods for modeling urban expansion are available. Most of these computational models demand a variety of large-scale environmental and socio-economic data to investigate the relationship between urban expansion and its driving forces.
Jokar Arsanjani, J. +2 more
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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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Urban expansion – Urban shrinking considerations on Braşov agglomeration urban dynamics [PDF]
Human Geographies: Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography, 2012 The study of the vision of spatial development at different scales can often suggest different solutions, due to the different priorities imposed by the distinct territorial governance levels.
Cătălin Sârbu
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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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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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The flexible urban grid: adaptation, expansion and evolution in Philadelphia's city block morphology
, 2023 This study examines the evolution of Philadelphia’s city block morphology between 1683, when the city was planned by William Penn, and 1900, when urban expansion abandoned the grid. The study uses both quantitative and qualitative assessment.
Brent Ryan +3 more
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