Land use maps are very important references for the urban planning and management. However, it is difficult and time-consuming to get high-resolution urban land use maps. In this study, we propose a new method to derive land use information at building block level based on machine learning and geo-tagged street-level imagery – Google Street View images. Several commonly used generic image featu...

Urban parking prices do not reflect spatially heterogeneous parking supply and demand. We present a spatially explicit model for establishing on-and off-street parking prices in a heterogeneous urban space that guarantee a predetermined uniform level of occupancy.

OpenStreetMap offers an underexplored source of worldwide geospatial data useful to urban researchers. This study uses the OSMnx software to automatically download and analyze 27,009 US street networks from OpenStreetMap at metropolitan, municipal, and neighborhood scales—namely, every US city and town (N = 19655), census urbanized area (N = 497), and Zillow-defined neighborhood (N = 6857). It ...

The urban street network is one of the most permanent features of cities. Once laid down, the pattern of streets determines urban form and the level of sprawl for decades to come. We present a high-resolution time series of urban sprawl, as measured through street network connectivity, in the United States from 1920 to 2012. Sprawl started well before private car ownership was dominant and grew...

Street vending is a worldwide phenomenon, found in all countries and it has been practicing different ways. vendor as person who offers goods or services for sale to the public without having permanent built up structure. Urban Public Space historically described "open space", meaning streets, parks recreation areas, plazas other publicly owned managed outdoor spaces, opposed private domain of ...

Scholars have studied street networks in many ways. However, there are somelimitations to the current urban planning/street network analysis literature. Toaddress these challenges, this study presents a new tool to make the collection ofdata and creation and analysis of street networks simple, consistent, andautomatable. OSMnx is a new Python package that downloads administrativ...