Improvements in geographical information systems, the wider availability of high-resolution
digital data and more sophisticated econometric techniques have all contributed to …

Human population continues to aggregate in urban centers. This inevitably increases the
urban footprint with significant consequences for biodiversity, climate, and environmental …

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 …

Analyzing spatio-temporal characteristics of land use change is essential for understanding
and assessing ecological consequence of urbanization. More importantly, such analysis can …

The past two decades saw rapid and massive urbanization and industrialization in China.
Despite much research has been reportedly done at local and regional scales, little has …

Conceptual ambiguity of sprawl and lack of consensus among researchers have made the
measurement of urban sprawl very difficult, especially from remote sensing data. There are …

Currently, debates over urban form have generally focused on the contrast between the
“sprawl” often seen as typical of the United States and “compact” urban forms found in parts …

Urban form is increasingly being recognised by scientists for the potential role it might play
in the coordination of sustainable urban development and the reduction of CO 2 emissions …

In the industrialization that started in the 1830s in countries such as England and America,
transportation networks, geographical locations and spatial size were taken as the basis in …

Urbanisation is a dynamic complex phenomenon involving large scale changes in the land
uses at local levels. Analyses of changes in land uses in urban environments provide a …