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Characteristics of Residential Areas in Krakow Functional Urban Area

open access: yesJournal of Settlements and Spatial Planning, 2021
Urban sprawl is an unfavourable phenomenon not only in economic terms, but also due to the social and spatial effects. The failure to implement a coherent spatial policy in suburban areas may result in a chaotic distribution of residential buildings and cause spatial disorder.
openaire   +1 more source

Identification and prediction of mixed-use functional areas supported by POI data in Jinan City of China

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
The urban development of China is changing from incremental expansion to stock renewal mode. The study of urban functional areas has become one of the important fundamental works in current urban renewal and high-quality urban development.
Minrui Zheng   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The inhabited environment, infrastructure development and advanced urbanization in China's Yangtze River Delta Region [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper analyzes the relationship among the inhabited environment, infrastructure development and environmental impacts in China's heavily urbanized Yangtze River Delta region.
Chen, W   +6 more
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Exploring Impact of Spatial Unit on Urban Land Use Mapping with Multisource Data

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2020
The ability to precisely map urban land use types can significantly aid urban planning and urban system understanding. In recent years, remote sensing images and social sensing data have been frequently used for urban land use mapping.
Xuanyan Dong   +7 more
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Comparing and modeling land use organization in cities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The advent of geolocated ICT technologies opens the possibility of exploring how people use space in cities, bringing an important new tool for urban scientists and planners, especially for regions where data is scarce or not available.
Barthelemy, Marc   +8 more
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The influence of the revitalization of former industrial urban areas on new urban and tourism spaces: case studies of Manchester and Lyon [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The purpose of this article is the identification of changes to urban and tourism space due to the revitalization of the industrial wastelands in selected cities of Western Europe.
Kazimierczak, Jarosław
core   +1 more source

Impacts of Urban Areas and Their Characteristics on Avian Functional Diversity [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2017
Urban development is rapidly expanding across the globe and is a major driver of environmental change. Despite considerable improvements in our understanding of how species richness responds to urbanization, there is still insufficient knowledge of how other measures of assemblage composition and structure respond to urban development.
Emily Oliveira Hagen   +7 more
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The effect of port activity on urban employment: An analysis for the Spanish functional urban areas

open access: yesJournal of Transport Geography, 2023
This study aims to evaluate the impact of port activity on local employment in Spain. To do so, we have used a novel panel data at the functional urban areas (FUAs) level, considering cities' functional and economic extent based on daily people's movements.
Hidalgo Gallego, Soraya   +1 more
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Functional Urban Areas as Instruments of Spatial Development Policy at the Regional Level in the Case of Slovenia

open access: yesProstor, 2017
Over the recent decades, the concept of functional urban areas [FUAs] has been relatively independently established in many countries around the world. The paper first addresses the FUA concepts and their application.
Samo Drobne, Alma Zavodnik Lamovšek
doaj   +1 more source

Identification of Urban Functional Area by Using Multisource Geographic Data: A Case Study of Zhengzhou, China

open access: yesComplexity, 2021
The rational allocation of functional areas is the foundation for addressing the sustainable development of cities. Efficient and accurate identification methods of urban functional areas are of great significance to the adjustment and testing of urban ...
Jingzhong Li   +5 more
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