Since land and crops can only produce a certain amount before plateauing, farmers need to become creative to provide nearly eight billion people with fresh, healthy produce. One method is urban agriculture. But, what does urban agriculture look like for Indiana? We asked some Indiana agriculture ...
Urban sprawl or urbanization is an environmental risk that affects people and their farmland. According to the article, “What is Urban Sprawl”, “The end result is the spreading of a city and its suburbs over more and more rural land”. This quote explains that urban sprawl is the spreadi...
"Any time we're developing the land surface and building cities, there's gonna be some urban heat island effect," Smoliak said. "Urban heat islands occur when cities are warmer than the rural areas that surround them." He says dark materials like asphalt retain and re-emit heat from the ...
Urban sprawl is typically seen as a legacy of the growth of the suburb in America. In cities such as Chicago and Los Angeles, each new suburb required the development of vast tracts of land, often fertile farmland. Critics argued that the low-density housing typical of American suburbs was ...
scale of operation, types of crops or livestock raised, and market demand. Urban farms can benefit from reduced transportation costs and direct access to local markets, which can increase profit margins. However, challenges such as limited space, higher land costs, and urban regulations can impact...
Urban gardening refers to the practice of planting a garden in the city. Apartments, townhomes, and other areas with little to no land are being successfully used for gardening even though they may not be considered ideal. This method of gardening is becoming more commonplace as the amount of...
There are both positive and negative aspects to urban sprawl. As the population grows, there has to be a way of adding living spaces for more people. In places such as Japan, where there is limited physical space people have to live in urban areas, and the buildings have to go up, how...
An urban settlement is a densely populated area comprising mostly man-made structures that contain all of a society's administrative, cultural, residential and religious functions. In some countries, like the Soviet Union and India, official urban munici
Urban areasLand-use mappingContextual featuresHigh-resolution imageryLiDARA methodology for mapping urban land-use types integrating information from multiple data sources (high spatial resolution imagery, LiDAR data, and cadastral plots) is presented. A large set of complementary descriptive features that...
8Foreword: What Is an Urban Landscape?Matthew GandyThere is something mysterious about the term ‘urban landscape’ that appears to runcounter to the classic sense of a cultural landscape as an aesthetic tableau dominatedby evocative elements of nature such as rolling hills or distant mountains. Th...