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Examining the informal urban growth trends in a Port city [PDF]
Heliyon, 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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Monitoring urban growth and changes in land use and land cover: a strategy for sustainable urban development [PDF]
International 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
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Cellular Automata and Markov Chain Based Urban Growth Prediction
International 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
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Consumers’ Green smartphone practices concerned with power consumption optimisation
Cleaner 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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Architektúra & 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
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Housing growth: impacts on density, space consumption and urban morphology
Buildings & 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
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Investigation and Comparison of Urban Growth Effects on Landscape of 4 and 9 Areas of Karaj to Revise the Settlement Planning Process [PDF]
محیط 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
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Remote Sensing, 2022 Urban growth, typified by conversion from natural to built-up impervious surfaces, is known to cause warming and associated adverse impacts. Local climate zones present a standardized technique for evaluating the implications of urban land use and ...
Terence Darlington Mushore +2 more
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Buildings, 2023 Knowledge of the link between church and public space remains limited. However, there seems to exist a relationship between the church and the city, dating back to the first foundational temples.
Alba Arboix-Alió +3 more
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Urban Structure and Growth [PDF]
Review of Economic Studies, 2003 Most economic activity occurs in cities. This creates a tension between local increasing returns, implied by the existence of cities, and aggregate constant returns, implied by balanced growth. To address this tension, we develop a general equilibrium theory of economic growth in an urban environment.
Mark Wright, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
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