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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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Hydrology, 2017 The growth and spread of impervious surfaces within urbanizing catchment areas pose signiificant threats to the quality of natural and built-up environments.
Hasan Mohammed Hameed
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Environmental Research Letters, 2019 As cities are major contributors to GHG emissions and places where people face multiple climate change impacts, their critical role in responding to climate change is becoming increasingly evident. Cities are developing climate change action plans (CCAPs)
Hyejung Kim, Stelios Grafakos
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Remote Sensing, 2016 This study analyses the expansion of urban growth and land cover changes in five Saudi Arabian cities (Riyadh, Jeddah, Makkah, Al-Taif and the Eastern Area) using Landsat images for the 1985, 1990, 2000, 2007 and 2014 time periods. The classification was
Abdullah F. Alqurashi +2 more
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Physical Capacity Assessment of Cities Central Textures in order to Infill Development (Case Study: Minab City) [PDF]
جغرافیای اجتماعی شهری, 2016 When the physical sprawl occurs in a biological range, as an excess of physical needs of the resident’s population, it would occupy space or exceed the suburbs. It can be concluded that within the city useless, derelict, deficient, and old spaces will be
Karamatollah Ziari +3 more
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Urban expansion: theory, evidence and practice
Buildings & Cities, 2023 Cities accommodate population growth both through the densification of their existing footprints and through their expansion into their rural peripheries. In recent decades, most population growth has been accommodated through urban expansion.
Shlomo Angel
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Journal of Urban Economics, 2019 Abstract Does a location’s growth benefit or suffer from being geographically close to large economic centers? Spatial proximity may lead to competition and hurt growth, but it may also improve market access and enhance growth. Using data on U.S. counties and metro areas for the period 1840–2017, we document this tradeoff between urban shadows and ...
Cuberes, David +2 more
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The Urban Sun Belt: An Overview
, 2020 This paper focuses on the 22 metropolitan statistical areas in the Sun Belt with a population of 1 million people or more. Together, they accounted for almost half of all population growth in the entire United States between 2010 and 2016.
Hazle, Shelly G. +3 more
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Territorios en Formación, 2022 Resumen El desarrollo urbano informal ha configurado amplias extensiones de territorio como áreas urbanas consolidadas de las principales ciudades de América Latina.
Julián Ruiz Solano
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Sulaimani Journal for Engineering Sciences, 2017 Urban development and urban expansion, usually followed by transformations of cities and their surroundings (rural, urban or both). Communities , which have been lived in environments different from those experienced today, became living in hybrid ...
Dr. Hoshyar Qadir Rasul +1 more
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