Energy use in cities has attracted significant research in recent years. However such a broad
topic inevitably results in number of alternative interpretations of the problem domain and …

This article presents an overview of multi-agent system models of land-use/cover change
(MAS/LUCC models). This special class of LUCC models combines a cellular landscape …

Green Infrastructure (GI) planning firstly developed as an integrated approach to ecological
and conservation planning. Then it has advanced and used in several disciplines such as …

How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is
ecology-including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations-spatially entwined …

This book provides a comprehensive discussion on urban growth and sprawl, and how they
can be analyzed using remote sensing imageries. It compiles views of numerous …

Our central paradigm for urban ecology is that cities are emergent phenomena of local-
scale, dynamic interactions among socioeconomic and biophysical forces. These complex …

Metropolitan areas have come under intense pressure to respond to federal mandates to
link planning of land use, transportation, and environmental quality; and from citizen …

This study explores the combined application of remote sensing, spatial metrics and spatial
modeling to the analysis and modeling of urban growth in Santa Barbara, California. The …

Land use change models are tools to support the analysis of the causes and consequences
of land use dynamics. Scenario analysis with land use models can support land use …

A city is the most dramatic manifestation of human activities on the environment. This human-
dominated organism degrades natural habitats, simplifies species composition, disrupts …