The past few years have witnessed a proliferation of studies using spatial metrics to examine spatial structure of land cover change. Urban analysts are no exception, applying landscape metrics to study and model patterns of urban growth. While the majority of this research examines emerging urban structures by measuring changes in their aggregate forms, these spatial patterns are often dominat...

Today is widely understood that global energy consumption patterns are directly related to the urban expansion and development process. This expansion is based on the natural growth of human activities and has left most urban areas totally dependent on fossil fuel derived external energy inputs. This status-quo of production, transportation, storage and consumption of energy has become ineffici...

Urban spatial expansion characteristics are the responses of urbanization acts on the geographical space. Analyzing the characteristics can reveal the process of urban expansion and mechanism which is one of useful methods to find out the sustainable land use strategy balancing development and protection. In this paper, two main methods have been deployed in analyzing the spatial expansion char...

Based on a case study of Alexandria city, Egypt, this paper investigates the configuration, interrelation, and integration urban expansion within framework sustainability transitions to enhance performance sociotechnical transitions. It explores two main arguments; first, evaluate recent planning innovations, second, raise awareness participatory model involvement three pillars better integrate...

urban management in any context has a different economic, social and political structure, which is in harmony with the existing models of organization. in spite of these differences, in order to reach a sustainable urban development, several different conferences should be referred to. in the “brundtland commission 1987” about urban sustainable development these definitions have been given: “pr...

Temporal urban mapping develops a historical perspective of urban development by combining a variety of data sources into an integrated, multi-scale, and multi-resolution database. Temporal map and databases can be used to document human-induced land transformations in Dhaka Metropolitan Area (DMA), where the human induced land transformation rate is very high. Two main features – Arial expansi...

This paper reviews the numerous and various applications of the SLEUTH urban growth model over the last decade. SLEUTH is a Cellular Automaton-based urban growth model that uses historical geospatial data for calibration of its parameters. Applications have covered the major cities of the United States, including Detroit, Chicago, New York, Washington, San Francisco and Albuquerque. The model h...

The expansion of underground structures is important in urban areas with high population density. In most large cities in the world, urban development is spreading along the structures. These structures are generally located at shallow depth; therefore study of shallow tunnels in urban areas is critical for development. During the excavation of tunnels in urban areas, creating the asymmetric se...