Free and open source tools present numerous opportunities to support current urban
planning practice. However, their overview is fragmented, and the uptake among planning …

In the context of the booming construction of smart cities, multi-source data fusion and
analysis algorithms play a key role in optimizing real estate management and improving …

There is a prevailing trend to study urban morphology quantitatively thanks to the growing
accessibility to various forms of spatial big data, increasing computing power, and use cases …

Urban planning and morphology have relied on analytical cartography and visual
communication tools for centuries to illustrate spatial patterns, conceptualize proposed …

This book has emerged through years of discussions, comments and questions we have
received about building agentbased models and integrating geographical information …

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 …

Social media data provide an unprecedented wealth of information on people's perceptions,
attitudes, and behaviors at fine spatial and temporal scales and over broad extents. Social …

Obtaining insights about the dynamics of urban structure is crucial to the framing of the
context within the smart city. This paper focuses on urban areas of interest (UAOI), a concept …

Citizen science has the potential to improve communication and understanding relating to
peoples' lives. As online maps increasingly became research tools (Fox & Hendler, 2011) …

This study revisits the debate surrounding the definition of neighborhood boundaries by
addressing the disconnect between the city's Administrative Neighborhoods and its …