The creation of an accurate simulation of future urban growth is considered to be one of the
most important challenges of the last five decades that involves spatial modeling within a …

The urban problems have clearly incorporated into the global sustainable development
agenda and the scientific urban expansion model has won credibility for urban research and …

Context Land use/land cover (LULC) patterns seriously affect ecosystem services (ESs),
especially in highly developed urban agglomerations. Exploring how LULC and ESs change …

Although densification of urban areas is being proposed as a sustainable urbanisation
strategy, frameworks for detailed large-scale analysis of densification potentials and their …

Urban green spaces (UGSs) are indispensable for providing various ecosystem services
(ESs) to society and city-dwellers. The equitable allocation of ESs provided by UGSs is a …

The changes in energy balance resulting from land-use change may significantly affect the
amount and timing of water loss to the atmosphere as evapotranspiration (ET). Also, these …

Regional-scale urban residential densification provides an opportunity to tackle multiple
challenges of sustainability in cities. But framework for detailed large-scale analysis of …

Urban growth in the form of sprawl became a global planning problem in the 20th century.
High urbanization rates in combination with low-density zoning regulations put additional …

Over the past decade, urban density has been growing faster than ever, forcing high-density
expansion. The aim of this study is to verify whether urban density is accepted as a …

While the driving factors of urban growth and urban sprawl have repeatedly been studied,
the implications for residential densities presumably differ in growing and shrinking regions …