Although previous studies have attempted to address the challenge of land subdivision, there is still a scarcity in the literature on how the extent of conformity to land subdivision planning regulations may be statistically and spatially analyzed. This study, therefore, explores the extent to which residential developers comply with land subdivision planning regulations in Kenya, a case study ...

Simulation of the land subdivision process is useful in many applied and research areas. Planners use such tools to understand potential impacts of planning regulations prior to their implementation. While the credibility of both land-use change and urban growth models would be enhanced by integrating capabilities to simulate land subdivision, such research is lacking in the published literatur...

In many communities on the urban–rural fringe, subdivisions are subject to “clustering” rules, in which houses must be located on a portion of the total land area and the remainder of the land is left as open space. This open space may be undisturbed forest or pastureland, or it may include recreation facilities and trails. In some communities, the open space may remain in agricultural use as p...

Sheep rearing is the main productive activity in Patagonian rangelands, where guanacos are the only native ungulate. Ranchers perceive a decrease in range carrying capacity as guanaco numbers increase, therefore guanaco conservation within private lands becomes a considerable challenge. This issue is particularly evident in the World Natural Heritage Península Valdés (PV), where there is a need...

Approaches to residential development have clear effects on the surrounding environments, including those on habitat protection, water quality, transportation and congestion costs, and loss of public open space. Ecological subdivision designs (ESDs) are a means to mitigate some of the most negative effects of low-density dispersed landuse patterns, yet there is not widespread adoption of these ...

This thesis presents a new method to construct smooth land 2-form subdivision schemes over the 3D volumetric domain. Based on the subdivided 1and 2-form coefficient field, smooth vector fields can be constructed using Whitney forms. To obtain stencils in the regular setting, classical 0-form subdivision and linear 1and 2-form subdivision over the octet mesh are introduced. Then, convoluting wit...

Reverse subdivision aims at constructing a coarser representation of an object given by a fine polygon mesh. In this paper, we first derive a mask for reverse Loop subdivision that can be applied to both regular and extraordinary vertices. The mask is parameterized, and thus can also be used in reversing variants of Loop subdivision, such as those proposed by Warren and Litke. We apply this mas...