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Examining the informal urban growth trends in a Port city [PDF]

open access: yesHeliyon, 2023
Rapid urban developmental growth is a heated debate worldwide due to environmental challenges. This research has examined the spatiotemporal trend of informal built-up growth in Karachi city.
Cai Li   +4 more
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Urban growth prediction with parcel based 3D urban growth model (PURGOM). [PDF]

open access: yesMethodsX, 2021
While cities grow horizontally over natural areas, they also grow vertically with high-rise construction in time. The Floor Area Ratio (FAR) is defined as the ratio of the amount of construction area on a parcel to the parcel area. FAR is one of the essential indicators for detecting and measuring 3D (three-dimensional) change. The amount and trends of
Kuru A, Yüzer MA.
europepmc   +4 more sources

Urban Growth and Transportation [PDF]

open access: yesThe Review of Economic Studies, 2012
We estimate the effects of interstate highways on the growth of U.S. cities between 1983 and 2003. We find that a 10% increase in a city's initial stock of highways causes about a 1 ∙5% increase in its employment over this 20 year period. To estimate a structural model of urban growth and transportation, we rely on an instrumental variables estimation ...
Duranton, Gilles, Turner, Matthew A
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Urban geography: urban growth machine [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Urban growth machine is an influential thesis of urban politics that suggests the objective of growth unites otherwise pluralistic interests in relation to a city. The thesis is situated within a broader theory about the commodification of place, where place is understood to be socially and economically valued land.
Rodgers, Scott
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Monitoring urban growth and changes in land use and land cover: a strategy for sustainable urban development [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Human Capital in Urban Management, 2023
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Recently, Jos Metropolis, Nigeria is witnessing a strong trend toward urban growth and expansion. This phenomenon has impacted Land Use/Land Cover and efficient management of land.
P. Shehu, L.S. Rikko, M.B. Azi
doaj   +1 more source

Cellular Automata and Markov Chain Based Urban Growth Prediction

open access: yesInternational Journal of Environment and Geoinformatics, 2021
The urban share of the Indian population jumped from 18% in 1961 to 31.16% in 2011 (Gupta et.al2013). This huge spurt in growth of the population is putting a huge demand on available land resource.
Cellular Automata and Markov Chain Based Urban Growth Prediction
doaj   +1 more source

Consumers’ Green smartphone practices concerned with power consumption optimisation

open access: yesCleaner and Responsible Consumption, 2023
The advent of smart multifunction smartphones has led to a significant issue of abnormal battery depletion. This raises the issue of a need for green practices that enable smart power-saving management in smartphones to optimise power consumption and ...
Ling Chai Wong   +4 more
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Tirana: Its History and a Post-Socialist Perspective on Urban Growth and Transformation between 1991–2016

open access: yesArchitektúra & Urbanizmus, 2023
This paper examines Tirana’s urbanization process from a socio-morphological perspective. It presents a quick understanding on how Tirana came to be a town, and then how it became the capital of Albania in 1920.
Blerta Dino, Sam Griffiths
doaj   +1 more source

Housing growth: impacts on density, space consumption and urban morphology

open access: yesBuildings & Cities, 2021
How and why do houses densify over time? What is the impact of that growth and what kind of constraints affect their potential to change? This research explores built form change and densification, providing historical evidence from the incremental ...
Fani Kostourou
doaj   +1 more source

Investigation and Comparison of Urban Growth Effects on Landscape of 4 and 9 Areas of Karaj to Revise the Settlement Planning Process [PDF]

open access: yesمحیط زیست و توسعه فرابخشی, 2021
Today, changes in land use and land cover are caused by a very important factor affecting population growth. Landscape change is done by changing the cover and land use.
Yahya Chehrazar   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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