At the beginning of the 21st century humanity entered the 'century of cities' (Kofi Annan) with the majority of the global population living in urban areas. Global urbanisation is one of the most fundamental and most radical changes recently experienced by humanity. In the last decades new so-called megacities highlight that " the developing world, where megacities will be the hallmark of futur...

One of the key issues modern architecture and urban development is decline life in small towns settlements, which are experiencing negative consequences new socioeconomic reality. The urbanization process, characterized by rising large cities mega-cities provided an increasing influx migration from historical settlements. However, preserving features architecture, natural attraction provincial ...

Cities in developing countries are expanding at a tremendous rate and informal settlements (where 40 to 80% of city dwellers live) occur in unplanned urban areas. In planned cities in developed countries, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and cellular automata (CA) are favourable tools for modelling urban dynamics. This paper discusses the growth of informal settlements, describes the tools ...

BACKGROUND Preventing intimate partner violence (IPV) remains a global public health challenge. Studies suggest urban informal settlements have particularly high levels of IPV and HIV-prevalence and these settlements are rapidly growing. The current evidence base of effective approaches to preventing IPV recognizes the potential of combining economic strengthening and gender transformative inte...

This study investigated the spatial pattern evolution of rural settlement system in town Menggang, China, based on patches extracted from remote sensing data for four time points between 1990 and 2018. Five typical villages were selected to their textures point surface. The reasons settlements examined as well. results indicated that number Menggang decreased, area a single patch expanded, scal...

In the conditions of sustainable development, special attention is paid to balanced development territory. regional studies, study state depressed settlements has scientific and practical relevance. this regard, conceptual analysis concept «depressed region» «vulnerability settlements» allows us define important parameters for study. The aim article an empirical socio-economic problems vulnerab...

The land of Turkey has hosted various civilizations throughout history, and it has diverse architectural heritages left from these civilizations. Rural areas and settlements can be seen as the pure reflection of geographical and cultural environment as well as historical and economical. However, today as a consequence of modernisation, the traditional architectural pattern in the rural settleme...

In developing countries like South Africa processed geographic information systems (GIS) data on land suitability, is often not available for land use management. Data in this article is based on a published article "The strategically located land index support system for humans settlements land reform in South Africa" (Musakwa et al., 2017) [1]. This article utilities data from Musakwa et al. ...

Unprecedented rates of changes in land use/cover (LULC) on the local and regional scales lead to alterations of global biogeochemical cycles, and loss of productive ecosystems and biodiversity. Driving forces behind LULC changes mainly include rapid growth rates of population and consumption, lack of valuation of ecological services, poverty, ignorance of biophysical limitations, and use of eco...

The degree to which terrestrial vertebrate populations are depleted in tropical forests occupied by human communities has been the subject of an intense polarising debate that has important conservation implications. Conservation ecologists and practitioners are divided over the extent to which community-based subsistence offtake is compatible with ecologically functional populations of tropica...