Methods and Tools for Spatial Modelling of Urban Processes: Multidimensionality, Temporality and Territoriality

Dear Colleagues,

The peripheries of consolidated urban fabrics have become sensitive areas in the current global context of climate change and energy crisis. This situation has led them to be the object and target of treatment in different territorial, urban, environmental and spatial management regulations. On many occasions, the procedures and indicators used by these legal frameworks to define these areas of suburban or dispersed growth are not adequately adjusted to the territorial reality. This circumstance invites the definition of new procedures for detecting changes, measuring the intensity of suburban and dispersion processes and the evolution of urban–rural interface territories. Geographic information technologies (GIT) have become a great ally in monitoring these territories of change.

This Special Issue invites the participation of all those authors who focus their research on these transitional spaces, contextualised with their current regulatory framework and who apply geotechnologies as a tool for developing procedures to measure their territorial impact, evolution and decision-making. We welcome papers from the fields of urban planning, spatial planning, environmental sciences, architecture, tourism, engineering and other thematic areas and disciplines related to the subject. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Urban developments and spatial analysis;
• Land planning and GIS changes of use and urban evolution;
• Suburban processes and urban sprawl;
• Territorial regulations and GIS management;
• Evolution of urban processes and geostatistical modelling.

Dr. Sergio Reyes
Dr. Federico B. Galacho-Jiménez
Guest Editors

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