Essien, O.EAkpan, P.EEssien, O. E. and Akpan, P. E., "Impact of urban expansion on arable land use at rural-urban fringe in Uyo Municipality", International Journal ofDevelopment Studies (In Press), 2013.
Studies have found that urban form has a direct impact on urban heat island (UHI) – an environmental phenomenon in which the temperature of specific urban areas is higher than that of nearby rural areas (Chakraborty et al., 2019; Ulpiani, 2021). For example, centrality was identified as ...
Finally, we analyzed the negative impact of urban expansion on the corridors under current urbanization trends. Our results show that the regional corridors are mostly distributed in the western mountainous area, connecting large natural areas. There are also three ecological corridors crossing the city...
Affected by city and countryside,the urban fringe is the habitat of urban development and change.Now the discussion on land price of the urban fringe focuses mainly on evaluation methods of land price.However,researches on impact factors of land price are very few.Confirming the impact factors is...
The change in land use/land cover (LULC) is the rapid influence and response of human activities on nature, with significant consequences [1,2,3,4]. The rapid changes in land cover, especially in developing countries like Bangladesh, urban sprawl characterized by random and unplanned growth [...
a Although spatial structure characteristic and its negative impact have been documented extensively in the literature, the issues of influencing factors on urban and rural spatial structure and subsequent policies for pre-venting or ameliorating it in metropolis fringe area have not been clearly disc ...
The conversion of prime agricultural land on the urban-rural fringe of the Chicago Metropolitan area has become rampant over the past twenty years. One effect of this conversion process is the loss of open space. Chapter 1 is a review of the problems associated with suburban sprawl and the ...
The urbanisation is the most dominant transition in the form of urban sprawl, houses or sometimes warehouses are constructed in the countryside or expansion is more concentrated near towns and villages. The increase of urban area (which includes generally land take by infrastructure) does not exceed...
Rural urban fringeEmploymentRural areasMetropolitan areasPersonnelSuburban areasRecruitingMinnesotaBusinessesStatistical dataResults of a study of businesses located in suburban Twin City industrial/business parks are reported. The study found that employees with home addresses outside the metropolitan area ...
Fazal, ShahabDevelopment at the Urban Fringe and Beyond:Impacts on Agriculture and Rural Land. Ralph E.Heimlich,William D.Anderson. http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/aer803/aer803.pdf . 2001Ralph E.Heimlich,William D.Anderson.Development at the Urban Fringe and Beyond:Impacts on Agriculture...