Rapid urbanisation has not only affected the division of urban administrative regions and
economic development but also caused changes in land use patterns and urban-rural …

Despite the unprecedentedly growing discussion of big data generated in urban
environments and the widespread use of so-called urban big data (UBD) in recent years …

Africa has been experiencing rapid urbanization, yet limited studies have systematically
investigated urban growth dynamics across African cities. Using 25 cities as cases, we …

The rapid urbanization leads to the dynamic changes of the urban external landscape and
forms different urban growth patterns (UGP), which in turn affects the development level of …

Despite multiple benefits of green space for urban residents, the investigations on equality of
access to green space are scarce. Most focused on individual cities and the results were …

Urban agglomerations (UAs) are the most active areas of urban land expansion. The
encroachment of urban land on large-scale ecological land has caused severe ecological …

According to the United Nations'(2014)'World Urbanization Prospects', the pace of
urbanization in the recent decades has been rapid, often doubling in size every decade; …

This article examines whether the patterns of urbanization in China over the past twenty
years have resulted in a more balanced or increasingly polarized city size distribution. China …

The spatial configuration and the dynamics of urban physical growth are important topics of
analysis in contemporary urban studies. This paper examined urban land expansion and …