Over the past decades, urban growth boundaries (UGBs) have been regarded as effective tools applied by planners and local governments to curb urban sprawl and guide urban smart growth. The UGBs help limit urban development to suitable areas and protect surrounding agricultural and ecological landscapes. At present, China’s Town and Country Planning Act officially requires the delimitation of UG...

Urban planning is associated with land transformation from natural areas to modified and developed ones which leads to modification of natural environment. The basic knowledge of relationship between both should be ascertained before proceeding for the development of natural areas. Changes on land surface due to build up pavements, roads and similar land cover, affect surface water flow. There ...

Cities are seen as quintessentially human; however, because they can offer viable habitat to many plants, animals and other forms of life, cities also dynamic ecosystems. As urban areas expand house more the global human population reduce natural for wildlife, need wildlife-inclusive planning design becomes increasingly pressing. The 2019 Urban Wildlife Information Network Summit responded this...

Urban problems are problems of organized complexity. Thus, many models and scientific methods to resolve urban problems are failed. This study is concerned with proposing of a fuzzy system driven approach for classification and solving urban problems. The proposed study investigated mainly the selection of the inputs and outputs of urban systems for classification of urban problems. In this res...

Rapid economic development and population growth has led to urban densification massive land use changes, putting pressure on both ecosystems, people. In this context, public health issues have become crucial for cities address ensure they remain livable healthy everyone. Since the challenges of tend manifest themselves differently among different groups—e.g., groups higher socioeconomic status...

Urban planning exerts influences on environmental, social and economic system related with the city. Processes of land transformation and city growth determine radical changes in urban landscape morphology and as a consequence they affect air temperature and energy exchange. The urbanization can bear on local climate more intensively than the global warming does. This is due to the rapidity of ...

In urban planning, sophisticated simulation models are key tools to estimate future population growth for measuring the impact of planning decisions on urban developments and the environment. Simulated population projections usually result in bulky, large-scale, multivariate geospatial data sets. Millions of records have to be processed, stored, and visualized to help planners explore and analy...