The global ambition of making cities resilient is leading to growing attention towards
evaluation frameworks that can assess and communicate the performance of cities in terms …

This article reviews existing literature on spatial metrics, presenting a portfolio of metrics
addressing the spatial patterns of growing and shrinking cities and discussing their potential …

In this paper we put forward two ideas for monitoring the Smart Cities initiative in a better
way. In develo** the first idea, we study past and on-going initiatives in the field of …

The main objective of this paper is to present an assessment approach for ecosystem
services in an urban context covering the local and the regional scale. It was applied to …

Metropolitan growth in Europe has resulted in drastic changes of urban forms, socio-spatial
structures and land-use patterns due to sequential processes of urbanization …

Mixing peculiar socioeconomic conditions and demographic contexts, urban decline in
Mediterranean Europe was less extensively documented than in other regions of the …

Today, urban planning processes involve many stakeholders and efficient dialogue tools are
needed to support communication in transdisciplinary environments. The aim of our study is …

The study of land use change in urban and regional systems has been dramatically
transformed in the last four decades by the emergence and application of cellular automata …

Both modelers and social scientists attempt to find better explanations of complex urban
systems. They include development paths, underlying driving forces and their expected …

This paper introduces an enhancement of a cellular automata (CA) model by integrating
system dynamics (SD) to incorporate household dynamics and housing decisions as driving …