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Land, 2022 Studying the expansion of urban construction land is necessary to promote rational land use and scientific territorial spatial planning. To reveal urban built-up areas, this study uses 1990–2020 Landsat remote sensing images, superimposed with NPP/VIIRS ...
Kaihuai Liao +4 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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Remote Sensing, 2017 Urban megaregions have emerged as a new urbanized form. However, previous studies mostly focused on urban expansion at the city scale, particularly for large cities.
Wenjuan Yu, Weiqi Zhou
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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 expansion: theory, evidence and practice
Buildings & Cities, 2023 Cities accommodate population growth both through the densification of their existing footprints and through their expansion into their rural peripheries. In recent decades, most population growth has been accommodated through urban expansion.
Shlomo Angel
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Urban expansion indicators of cities "Case study for Arab cities
Journal of Techniques, 2020 Urban population growth requires an appropriate and suitable place for future population to cope with the expected urban expansion of major cities in developing countries, and to identify an indicator urban expansion to guide planners, architects and ...
Nabil T. Ismael
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A meta-analysis of global urban land expansion. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 The conversion of Earth's land surface to urban uses is one of the most irreversible human impacts on the global biosphere. It drives the loss of farmland, affects local climate, fragments habitats, and threatens biodiversity.
Karen C Seto +3 more
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Remote Sensing, 2019 Urban expansion is one of the most dramatic forms of land transformation in the world and it is one of the greatest challenges in achieving sustainable development in the 21st century.
Shaikh Abdullah Al Rifat, Weibo Liu
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Ecological Indicators, 2023 The rapid urban expansion in drylands has threatened local fragile vegetation in recent years. Evaluating the urban expansion impacts on local vegetation in drylands effectively is crucial for promoting regional urban sustainability.
Tao Qi +4 more
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