Urban expansion is not only reflected in the increase in horizontal urban area, but also in the increase in vertical urban height, that is, the city’s vertical expansion. Exploring the spatiotemporal evolution of urban vertical expansion and it...
Urban expansion studies have focused on two-dimensional planar dimensions, ignoring the impact of building height growth changes in the vertical direction on the urban three-dimensional (3D) spatial expansion. Past 3D simulation studies have tended t...
The development of cities in the vertical dimension is important in valley-type cities where physical growth is limited by terrain. However, little research has focused on three-dimensional urban expansion of valley-type cities. Lanzhou is a typical...
Urbanization addresses urban expansion, and it leads conversion of the green space into the built-up area. However, previous studies mainly focused on two-dimensional (2D) urban expansion rather than three-dimensional (3D) growth. Here, the purpose o...
Sustainable urban growth is an important issue in urbanization. Existing studies mainly focus on urban growth from the two-dimensional morphology perspective due to limited data. Therefore, this study aimed to construct a framework for estimating lon...
Landscape changes associated with urbanization can lead to many serious ecological and environmental problems. Quantifying the vertical structure of the urban landscape and its change is important to understand its social and ecological impacts, but...
Urban expansion occurs in horizontal and vertical directions, but the construction process of a traditional planar ecological network (EN) ignores the ecological protection of the vertical space. Birds, as representative species in urbanized areas, a...
SDG Indicator 11.3.1 assesses urban land use efficiency (LUE) through the ratio of the land consumption rate (LCR) to the population growth rate (PGR), or LCRPGR. However, its methodology is restricted to two-dimensional built-up area expansion, excl...
In the present study, the vertical and horizontal growth of Patna Urban Agglomeration was evaluated using the Persistent Scatterer Interferometry Synthetic Aperture Radar (PSInSAR) technique during 2015–2018. The vertical urban growth assessmen...
30 June 2019
Developing countries such as China are undergoing rapid urban expansion and land use change. Urban expansion regulation has been a significant research topic recently, especially in Eastern China, with a high urbanization level. Among others, roads a...
The use of remote sensing for urban monitoring is a very reliable and cost-effective method for studying urban expansion in horizontal and vertical dimensions. The advantage of multi-temporal spatial data and high data accuracy is useful in mapping u...
The expansion of impervious surface area (ISA) in megacities of China often leads to land surface temperature (LST) aggregation effects, which affect living environments by impacting thermal comfort levels, thus becoming an issue of public concern. H...
Using nonparametric, exploratory statistics, the spatial structure of the city’s vertical profile was investigated at the municipal scale in Athens’ metropolitan region (Greece), evaluating changes over a sufficiently long time interval (1983–2019) t...
Given rapid global urban development, increases to impervious surfaces, urban population growth, building construction, and energy consumption result in the urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon. However, the spatial extent of UHIs is not clearly mapped...
Suitability evaluation of urban construction land is critical for both urban master planning and the proper utilization of land resources. Using the Beihu New District of Jining City, China, as a case study, this paper introduces a novel research app...
The present study illustrates a multidimensional analysis of an indicator of urban land use efficiency (per-capita built-up area, LUE) in mainland Attica, a Mediterranean urban region, along different expansion waves (1960–2010): compaction and densi...
Understanding spatial characteristics of urban building systems is critical for unraveling urban building stock growth patterns, addressing housing vacancy challenges, and advancing urban carbon neutrality. However, existing research on built environ...
Over the last two decades, globally coastal areas have urbanized rapidly due to various socioeconomic and demographic driving forces. However, urban expansion in towns and cities of the developing world has been characterized by entangled structures...
Empirical evidence shows that the expansion of impervious surface threatens soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration in urbanized areas. However, the understanding of deep soil excavation due to the vertical expansion of impervious surface remains lim...
In this study, an extreme rainstorm that occurred in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei (BTH) region in China on 19–20 July 2016 is simulated and analyzed using the Weather Research and Forecasting model, coupled with a multilayer urban cano...
New vertical housing developments in Guadalajara (Mexico) are reaching the city center as a response for redensification after many years of expansion of the urban area characterized by a suburban, low density and fragmented pattern. This horizontal...
Urbanization and expansion in each city of emerging countries have become an essential function of Earth’s surface, with the majority of people migrating from rural to urban regions. The various urban category characteristics have emphasized th...
Rio de Janeiro’s favelas house over 20% of the city’s population in just 5% of its territory, with Rio das Pedras emerging as a critical case study: ranking as Brazil’s fifth most populous favela and its most vertically intensified....
The rapid urbanization of Lagos City has resulted in an expansion of urban and nighttime lights, which, in turn, places a significant burden on natural resources. This burden exacerbates the adverse impacts of changes in climate parameters, underscor...
The use of drones has expanded the boundaries of several activities, which is expected to be utilized intensively in the near future. Interactions between urbanity and naturalness have been increasing while urban expansion amplifies the proximity bet...
Today, the uncontrolled urban expansion and ever-increasing rise of construction have caused the need for food, urban greenery, and a healthy environment to be felt more than any other time. On the other hand, population growth and the reduced produc...
Under the background of over-exploitation of groundwater and urban expansion, the land subsidence in the Beijing Plain has dramatically increased recently, and has demonstrated obvious mutation characteristics. Firstly, this paper used the land-use t...
Prefabricated ballastless tracks are increasingly applied on long-span bridges, necessitating special attention to driving safety and comfort at weak connection areas like beam-end expansion joints. This study, based on the Ningbo-Xiangshan urban rai...
Rapid urbanization has transformed cityscapes worldwide, yet vertical urban growth (VUG) receives less attention than horizontal expansion. This study mapped and analyzed VUG patterns in Wuhan, China, from 2012 to 2020 based on a Persistent Scatterer...
In China’s new era with a territorial spatial governance framework, the delineation of the “Three Zones and Three Lines” is a crucial step in establishing a comprehensive and vertically integrated spatial control system. The changes...
28 December 2022
Land-use optimization, as an important resource-allocation method, can be defined as the process of allocating various activities to different geographic units. How to manage and control land expansion has become an urgent issue, leading a series of...
This article presents a social-ecological resilience assessment and attempts to explicitly examine the impacts of urbanization on resilience, with a view to explore how to strengthen social-ecological governance of the resilience of urban ecosystems....
Urban trees are vital elements of outdoor scenes via mobile laser scanning (MLS), accurate individual trees detection from disordered, discrete, and high-density MLS is an important basis for the subsequent analysis of city management and planning. H...
Climate change is expected to result in increased occurrences of extreme weather events such as heat waves and cold spells. Urban planning responses are crucial for improving the capacity of cities and communities to deal with significant temperature...
In 2050, Mexico’s population will reach 150 million people, about 80% of whom will likely live in urban centers. This increase in population will necessitate increased food production in the country. The lands classified as drylands in Mexico occupy...
The Teles Pires River basin is experiencing significant water challenges due to recent urban growth, expansion of irrigated agriculture, and the rise of hydroelectric power plants in Brazil’s forest and savanna regions, impacting water availabi...
The measure of access to urban green space (UGS) informs planning and expectations for implementation, leading to suggested strategies for optimising UGS integration to urban planning to counteract sprawl developments. The article studies the meaning...
Urbanization and associated forest conversions have given rise to a continuum of native (forest fragments) and modified (artificial grasslands and perennial ecosystems) land-use types. However, little is known about how these shifts affect soil and f...
7 September 2022
Climate warming caused by carbon emissions is a hot topic in the international community. Research on urban industrial carbon emissions in China is of great significance for promoting the low-carbon transformation and spatial layout optimization of C...
With the rapid development of urban rail transit and underground space development, the occurrence of excavation near existing tunnels is becoming more common. This excavation and unloading will inevitably cause soil deformation outside the pit and t...
Rapid urbanization is causing changes in green spaces and ecological connectivity. So far, urban ecosystem research has mainly focused on using landscape metrics (LM) in two-dimensional (2D) space. Our study proposes three-dimensional (3D) measures o...
Urban growth models often prioritize environmental and accessibility factors while underestimating behavioral and functional dynamics. This study develops a POI-enhanced Cellular Automata (CA) framework to simulate urban expansion by incorporating th...
Good architectural space design can bring positive emotional stimulation and relaxation to users, but few studies have investigated the quantitative indicators in architectural space design and their impact on user emotions. This study takes the righ...
In this paper, we take the position that cities gain to be represented as three-dimensional spaces populated by scores of micro-scale-built spaces (buildings, rooms, passageways, squares, etc.). Effective algorithms that evaluate place-based accessib...
Nowadays, approximately 75% of the European population lives in urban areas, and these figures are expected to grow in future. The consequent expansion of cities means that the population might locate its residence far from daily facilities, generati...
Industrial park (IP) expansions in Mediterranean peri-urban areas can generate conflicts between economic development and agricultural heritage preservation. This paper develops a theoretically derived circular land use symbiosis model based on Hubs...
Urbanization reshapes bird communities by filtering species according to their ecological traits, often reducing richness, altering relative abundances, and favoring a subset of functionally tolerant species that dominate urban assemblages. Some nati...
In urban construction, the efficient demolition of concrete structures imposes high-precision requirements on blasting technology. The mesoscopic evolution mechanism of concrete blasting damage is the key to optimizing blasting parameters. In this st...
Population growth and urban expansion have led to increased demand for buildings. Optimizing the building façade design, using integrated photovoltaic (PV) shading and vertical farming (VF) can reduce building energy consumption while ensuring...
Dengue is placing huge burdens on the Malaysian healthcare system as well as the economy. With the expansion in the number of high-rise residential buildings, particularly in the urban centers, the flight range and behavior of Aedes mosquitoes may be...
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