Building design is quite a complicated task with the design team trying to counterbalance
various antagonistic parameters, which in turn are subject to various constraints. Due to this …

Cellular Automata (CA) are widely used to model the dynamics within complex land use and
land cover (LULC) systems. Past CA model research has focused on improving the technical …

Land use optimization is a promising approach to achieve urban sustainability. Despite the
increasing number of literature on land use optimization, a little investigation is made to …

Urban growth boundaries (UGBs) have been commonly regarded as a useful tool for
controlling urban sprawl. There is a need to create models that can establish plausible …

As the spatial carrier of carbon emission from land ecosystems and human activities, land
use plays an important role in representing the spatial distribution of carbon emissions and …

Urban growth boundaries (UGBs) have been adopted worldwide as a policy tool to control
urban sprawl. However, the delineation of recently piloted UGBs in rapidly urbanizing areas …

With accelerating urbanization, the regional ecological security pattern (ESP) faces
unprecedented threats. The situation is particularly serious in the Loess plateau of China …

Optimal land use allocation with the intention of ecosystem services provision and
biodiversity conservation is one of the key challenges in agricultural management …

This study analyzes land use dynamics, spatiotemporal patterns of ecosystem service value
(ESV), and the forces driving growth in the Hangzhou metropolitan area (HMA) in China. An …

Abstract Urban Growth Boundaries (UGBs) are a tool to control urban sprawl. However, the
way to optimize future urban land uses and fix their boundaries is not clear. This paper …