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Urban Growth and Transportation [PDF]
The 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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, 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.
Clark +13 more
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Urban growth simulation in different scenarios using the SLEUTH model: A case study of Hefei, East China. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2019 As uncontrolled urban growth has increasingly challenged the sustainable use of urban land, it is critically important to model urban growth from different perspectives. Using the SLEUTH (Slope, Land use, Exclusion, Urban, Transportation, and Hill-shade)
Liu Y +7 more
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Quantifying urban growth patterns in Hanoi using landscape expansion modes and time series spatial metrics. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2018 Urbanization has been driven by various social, economic, and political factors around the world for centuries. Because urbanization continues unabated in many places, it is crucial to understand patterns of urbanization and their potential ecological ...
Nong DH, Lepczyk CA, Miura T, Fox JM.
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Urban geography: urban growth machine [PDF]
, 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 of land use land cover dynamics and prediction of urban growth using Land Change Modeler in Delhi and its environs, India. [PDF]
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int, 2022 Singh B, Venkatramanan V, Deshmukh B.
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Ecosystem service of green infrastructure for adaptation to urban growth: function and configuration
Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, 2018 Objectives: (1) to explore what kind of green infrastructure (GI) meets the demand for urban ecological security of rapid urbanization areas; (2) to figure out how to determine the specific function and configuration of GI from ecosystem service ...
Yun-Cai Wang +2 more
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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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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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Global evidence of rapid urban growth in flood zones since 1985
Nature, 2023 Analysis of high-resolution annual data shows that global human settlements have expanded continuously and rapidly into flood zones, with those in the most hazardous zones increasing by 122% from 1985 to 2015.
Jun Rentschler +6 more
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