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Determining the Influence of Long Term Urban Growth on Surface Urban Heat Islands Using Local Climate Zones and Intensity Analysis Techniques

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, Onisimo Mutanga, John Odindi   +2 more
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Relevance of Catholic Parish Churches in Public Space in Barcelona: Historical Analysis and Future Perspectives

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, Josep Maria Pons-Poblet, Adrià Arboix, Jordi Arboix-Alió   +3 more
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Urban sprawl: Extent and environmental impact in Baguio City, Philippines [PDF]

Spatium, 2016
Urban sprawl has emerged as a striking characteristic of recent global urban development. Land use policies advocating urban expansion for residential use to the detriment of a critical environment as in the case of Baguio City, Philippines ...
Gonzales Lord Byron F.
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What Happens in the City When Long-Term Urban Expansion and (Un)Sustainable Fringe Development Occur: The Case Study of Rome

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2021
This study investigates long-term landscape transformations (1949–2016) in urban Rome, Central Italy, through a spatial distribution of seven metrics (core, islet, perforation, edge, loop, bridge, branch) derived from a Morphological Spatial Pattern ...
Samaneh Sadat Nickayin, Luca Salvati, Rosa Coluzzi, Maria Lanfredi, Rares Halbac-Cotoara-Zamfir, Rosanna Salvia, Giovanni Quaranta, Ahmed Alhuseen, Luisa Gaburova   +8 more
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To move or stay? A cellular automata model to predict urban growth in coastal regions amidst rising sea levels

International Journal of Digital Earth, 2021
Low-lying coastal cities are widely acknowledged as the most densely populated places of urban settlement; they are also more vulnerable to risks resulting from intensive land use and land cover change, human activities, global climate change, and the ...
Siqin Wang, Yan Liu, Yongjiu Feng, Zhenkun Lei   +3 more
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Spatiotemporal Evolution of Urban Agglomeration and Its Impact on Landscape Patterns in the Pearl River Delta, China

Remote Sensing, 2023
An urban agglomeration is the engine of regional and national economic growth, but also causes many ecological and environmental issues that emerge from massive land changes.
Jiong Wu, Caiyan Wu, Qi Zhang, Minghao Zhuang, Huirong Xiao, Hui Wu, Linke Ouyang, Yuhan Liu, Chen Meng, Conghe Song, Dagmar Haase, Junxiang Li   +11 more
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Land consumption in Italy

Journal of Maps, 2020
This paper illustrates a land consumption map for Italy (year 2017) at a scale 1:1,300,000, and the assessment of its changes (2012–2017). We define land consumption as the replacement of a non-artificial land cover to an artificial land cover, both ...
Andrea Strollo, Daniela Smiraglia, Roberta Bruno, Francesca Assennato, Luca Congedo, Paolo De Fioravante, Chiara Giuliani, Ines Marinosci, Nicola Riitano, Michele Munafò   +9 more
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Global and Local Modeling of Land Use Change in the Border Cities of Laredo, Texas, USA and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico: A Comparative Analysis

Land, 2020
This paper estimates global logistic regression and logistic geographically weighted regression (GWR) models of urban growth in the adjacent border cities of Laredo, Texas in the United States and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas in Mexico, for two time periods ...
Chunhong Zhao, Jennifer L.R. Jensen, Russell Weaver   +2 more
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The demographic problems of the Baltic cities: general trends [PDF]

Baltic Region, 2010
This article discusses the trends of demographic development of the Baltic Sea region's cities. It analyses the factors affecting the urban population dynamics in the second half of the 20th — the beginning of the 21st centuries.
Kosov Yuri, Mikheeva Natalia
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A Fractal Theory of Urban Growth

Frontiers in Physics, 2022
This paper presents an analytical framework for the physical environment of cities using fractal theory. The strength of the approach lies in its simplicity and precision.
C. Molinero
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