Editor's Note: This literature review was prepared for the Florida Department of Community
Affairs (DCA) as background to the amendment of Florida's local comprehensive planning …

This paper characterizes and reviews multidisciplinary approaches to urban form. It begins
by classifying quantitative approaches to analyzing urban form into five classes: landscape …

Identifying the driving mechanisms and forces of urban expansion is an important step
toward better understanding of the spatial pattern, process, and consequences of urban …

Flood damage modelling has traditionally been limited to the local, regional or national
scale. Recent flood events, population growth and climate change concerns have increased …

A growing literature documents the effects of heat stress on premature mortality and other
adverse health outcomes. Urban heat islands (UHI) can exacerbate these adverse impacts …

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; …

We provide an integrated treatment of the theoretical literature on urban land use inspired by
the monocentric model, including extensions that deal with multiple endogenous business …

This article argues that urban spatial expansion results mainly from three powerful forces: a
growing population, rising incomes, and falling commuting costs. Urban growth occurring …

Cities can be thought of as the absence of physical space between people and firms. As
such, they exist to eliminate transportation costs for goods, people and ideas and …

This paper develops a theoretical framework to study the critical role that politics play in
sha** the spatial dimension of China's urbanization and the related welfare implications …