In recent years, automatic reconstruction, modeling and interpretation of urban environment and building structures is an area which gained interest. Urban environment’s modeling allows developing different applications such as: cultural and tourism information, urban planning, simulation for urban catastrophes, business development, and virtual reality. Five levels of detail (LoD) have been de...

Planning and developing urban tourism destinations must encompass landscape optimization to achieve healthy urban ecosystems, as well as for evolution sustainability. This study explored sustainable landscape planning by examining the optimization of landscape spatial distribution in an urban tourism destination–Nanjing, China—using an integrated approach that included remote sensing (RS), geog...

Our central concern in this paper is to examine some alternative policies for physically containing the growth of urban areas. We undertake a microsimulation to provide a comparison between land use planning policies that enforce an urban growth boundary and policies that limit development at the periphery using taxes. We parameterise our microsimulation using the structure of demand and policy...

Glossary Agent-Based Models (ABMs) A class of models developed since the 1980s which are based on representing objects and populations at an elemental or individualistic level which reflects behaviors of those objects through space and time. These models operate from the bottom up and sometimes generate emergent spatial and temporal patterns at more aggregate levels. Calibration The process of ...

land use change is driven by interaction in space and time between humans and the environment that can be captured by computer simulation models (veldkamp and verburg, 2004). in the last few decades, land use change models have played an important role in understanding the causes, mechanisms and consequences of land use dynamics. sleuth is an open source cellular automata based land use change ...

today each city due to natural limitations, facilities and planning policies has different growth pattern which according to its spread, has different consequences and results. although there is a wide range of urban growth patterns, but the important thing is not diversity and number of models but is the absence of rules and methods of transition from one to another pattern (form). so this art...

Cellular automata have been used as a simulation technique in the study of an impressively wide range of urban phenomena, including regional growth, urban sprawl, gentrification, residential growth, population dynamics, economic activity and employment, historical urbanization, land use evolution, and polycentricity to name but a few. A spatial model consists of a collection of processes perfor...

Spatio-temporal modeling for urban applications has received special attention lately. Due to the recent advances in computer and geospatial technologies, the temporal aspect of urban applications which was ignored in conventional systems, is under consideration nowadays. This new interest in spatio-temporal modeling, in spite of all its deficiencies, has brought about great advances in spatio-...