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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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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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Remote Sensing, 2022 The aim of this study was to compare the available tools in R for downloading and processing Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) data, specifically the Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) product.
Milton J. Campero-Taboada +4 more
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Changing Characteristics of a Significant Part of the Urban Fringe in Ankara: İmrahor Valley [PDF]
Ankara Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2019 İmrahor Valley, which covers a significant part of the urban fringe in Ankara, has a crucial role in conserving the ecological balance of city with its landscape and other natural features.
Fulya Sınacı Özfındık
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Driving Forces behind Land Use and Land Cover Change: A Systematic and Bibliometric Review
Land, 2022 This paper is based on reviewing the literature in the past 10 years on the drivers of land use and land cover change (LULCC) in urban areas. It combines quantitative and qualitative keyword analysis of papers drawn out from the Scopus database.
Andrew Allan +3 more
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