Urbansprawl- The urbansprawl project provides an open source framework for assessing urban sprawl using open data. It uses OpenStreetMap (OSM) data to calculate its sprawling indices, divided in Accessibility, Land use mix, and Dispersion. ...
Understanding urban growth as a vital phenomenon in the rapidly changing environments of today's world is essential for urban and regional planners. However, this concept is not clearly defined, and providing a definite definition of it has rarely been focused on the related literature. In this a...
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Conceptual framework, research approach and dataset structure The growing consensus within empirical and conceptual urban livability studies (see also citations in Introduction) indicates that urban livability is a multi-dimensional concept, with no single or unified definition and conceptualization. The ove...
US sprawl; these subsidies have declined since their postwar introduction, but they spun up giant industries which can mass-produce sprawl cheaply. Meanwhile,tremendous indirect subsidiesmake driving, and thereby car-dependent sprawl, unrealistically cheap, with huge costs for human and planetary health...
15,16. As a human-centric composite meteorological index, AP has the capacity to simultaneously capture both thermal comfort and the natural climatic state under corresponding weather conditions5,17. It stands as an effective indicator for investigating the impact of meteorological conditions on human ...
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the progress of studies on Chinese urban expansion based on remote sensing technology are summarized and analyzed from the aspects of urban area definition, remotely sensed imagery applied in urban expansion, monitoring methods of urban expansion, and urban expansion applications. Existing issues and fut...