In the last century territory and layout of cities have undergone important changes with an enlargement in space human settlements. It deserves attention terms principles sustainability, limitation soil consumption, environmental impacts social needs. Then, a holistic vision for definition city its mobility is needed. This paper introduces systemic conceptual framework urban planning by combini...

The character of the residential development occurring at the periphery of a metropolitan area has extensive and diverse economic and social implications. The kinds and prices of housing produced, the population groups served, and the cost and problems of providing public services are all determined by the workings of the development process. An understanding of this process requires an examina...

The compact, geometrically integrated city can and should replace suburban sprawl as the dominant development pattern in the future. This approach to urban planning and design is well established among proponents of the New Urbanist and Smart Growth movements. However, the more radical scenario I propose in this paper is that the compact city should also replace the high-rise, ultra-high-densit...

The urban heat island effect, the phenomenon in which a city has higher temperatures than surrounding countryside, is known to contribute to higher rates of heat-related mortality in summer months when temperatures soar. Although extreme heat events have become more common in large U.S. cities, a new study indicates that sprawling cities experience more than double the rate of extreme heat even...

The Land Transformation Model (LTM), which as been developed to forecast urban use changes in a grid-based geographic information system, was used to explore the consequences of future urban changes to the years 2020 and 2040 using non urban sprawl and urban sprawl trends. The model was executed over a large area containing nine of the major coastal watersheds of eastern Lake Michigan. We found...