Humans consistently modify their environments—both directly and indirectly. However, the
linkage between human activity and anthropogenic landscapes intensifies in urban …

Metropolitan has progressively emerged as a new form of urban governance.
Understanding the urban expansion process and its determinants at metropolitan level …

The measuring of urban sprawl is a challenging task, as it does not have a clear universal
method. Therefore, it is worthwhile to investigate whether results differ with the methods …

In scientific literature there is a wide agreement on the negative consequences of urban
sprawl for some decades. Quantifying these negative consequences of urban sprawl can be …

Urban sprawl is a broad research topic in urban studies. Thus far, the debate on the causes
and consequences of urban sprawl has not led to a widely accepted interpretative …

This paper presents a spatiotemporal analysis to simulate and project urban sprinkling with
coupled cellular automata (CA) and multinomial logistic regression (MLR) model. Our case …

In June 2019, the government of the Flemish Region (Belgium) launched the “mobility
score,” a standardized built environment indicator that informs citizens in Flanders about the …

There is a lack of research on urban sprawl in develo** countries, particularly in Sub-
Saharan Africa, undergoing significant demographic change. There is an urgent need to …

Abstract The Flemish region in Belgium is characterised by a high and ever-growing
proportion of settlement area. Moreover, the historical growth pattern has resulted in …

Rapid and extensive urban changes in recent decades have inflicted a multitude of
challenges in land-use planning and conservation management, especially for the heritage …