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Zhang, Jun, Xiaodie Yuan, Xueping Tan, and Xue Zhang. "Delineation of the Urban-Rural Boundary through Data Fusion: Applications to Improve Urban and Rural Environments and Promote Intensive and Healthy Urban Development." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 13 (July 5, 2021): 7180. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18137180.
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As one of the most important methods for limiting urban sprawl, the accurate delineation of the urban–rural boundary not only promotes the intensive use of urban resources, but also helps to alleviate the urban issues caused by urban sprawl, realizing the intensive and healthy development of urban cities. Previous studies on delineating urban–rural boundaries were only based on the level of urban and rural development reflected by night-time light (NTL) data, ignoring the differences in the spatial development between urban and rural areas; so, the comprehensive consideration of NTL and point of interest (POI) data can help improve the accuracy of urban–rural boundary delineation. In this study, the NTL and POI data were fused using wavelet transform, and then the urban–rural boundary before and after data fusion was delineated by multiresolution segmentation. Finally, the delineation results were verified. The verification result shows that the accuracy of delineating the urban–rural boundary using only NTL data is 84.20%, and the Kappa value is 0.6549; the accuracy using the fusion of NTL and POI data on the basis of wavelet transform is 93.2%, and the Kappa value is 0.8132. Therefore, we concluded that the proposed method of using wavelet transform to fuse NTL and POI data considers the differences between urban and rural development, which significantly improves the accuracy of the delineation of urban–rural boundaries. Accurate delineation of urban–rural boundaries is helpful for optimizing internal spatial structure in both urban and rural areas, alleviating environmental problems resulting from urban development, assisting the formulation of development policies for urban and rural fringes, and promoting the intensive and healthy development of urban areas.
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Wang, Gusiyuan, and Wangshu Mu. "A Spatial Optimization Model for Delineating Metropolitan Areas." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 13, no. 2 (February 6, 2024): 51. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi13020051.
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A metropolitan area comprises a collection of cities and counties bound by strong socioeconomic ties. Despite the pivotal role that metropolitan areas play in regional economics, their delineation remains a challenging task for researchers and urban planners. Current threshold-based delineation methods select counties based on their connection strength with prespecified core counties. Such an approach often neglects potential interactions among outlying counties and fails to identify polycentric urban structures. The delineation of a metropolitan area is fundamentally a spatial optimization problem, whose objective is to identify a set of counties with high interconnectivity while also meeting specific constraints, such as area, contiguity, and shape. In this study, we present a novel spatial optimization model designed for metropolitan area delineation. This model aims to maximize intercounty connection strength in terms of both industry and daily life. This approach ensures a more accurate representation of the multicore structure that is commonly seen in developed metropolitan areas. Additionally, our model avoids the possibility of holes in metropolitan area delineation, leading to more coherent and logical metropolitan boundaries. We provide a mixed-integer programming formulation for the proposed model. Its efficacy is demonstrated by delineating the boundaries of the Nanjing and Lhasa metropolitan areas. This study also delves into discussions and policy implications pertinent to both of these metropolitan areas.
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Zhang, Xiaoyuan, Hao Wang, Xiaogang Ning, Xiaoyu Zhang, Ruowen Liu, and Huibing Wang. "Identification of Metropolitan Area Boundaries Based on Comprehensive Spatial Linkages of Cities: A Case Study of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Region." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 11, no. 7 (July 13, 2022): 396. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi11070396.
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As a regional management unit to solve "urban diseases,” metropolitan areas are gradually attracting widespread attention. How to objectively and accurately delineate the boundaries of a metropolitan area is the primary prerequisite for carrying out targeted studies and precisely formulating regional planning measures. However, the existing methods for delineating metropolitan area boundaries have problems, such as high data acquisition costs, subjectivity, and a single perspective of urban linkage. To address the above problems, we propose a “bottom-up” approach to metropolitan area boundary delineation based on urban comprehensive spatial linkages. We used only publicly available data to construct a directionally weighted network of urban spatial linkages, and applied community detection algorithms to delineate metropolitan area boundaries. Taking the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region as a case study area, the method’s validity was confirmed. The results showed the following: (1) Eight metropolitan areas were delineated within the region, with two types of metropolitan areas: “Inter-municipal” and “single-city”. (2) The overall accuracy of the delineation results reached 83.41%, which is highly consistent with their corresponding isochrone maps. (3) Most metropolitan areas were observed to have an obvious “central–peripheral” structure, with only the JingJinLang metropolitan area being a polycentric mature metropolitan area, whereas the other metropolitan areas remained in the initial stage of development, with Zhangjiakou and Chengde not yet having formed metropolitan areas. This study’s methodology highlights the basic criteria of “inter-city spatial linkage” as the foundation for boundary delineation, avoiding the inaccuracy caused by the subjective selection of boundary thresholds, and can also accurately determine the developmental stage and internal spatial structure of metropolitan areas. Our method can provide new perspectives for regional boundary delineation and spatial planning policy formulation.
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Yunus, Sulaiman. "DELINEATION OF URBAN FLOOD RISK AREAS USING GEOSPATIAL TECHNIQUE." FUDMA JOURNAL OF SCIENCES 4, no. 4 (June 14, 2021): 492–501. http://dx.doi.org/10.33003/fjs-2020-0404-282.
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The threat posed by urban flooding in most cities of the world is becoming alarming especially within the recent decades. This makes it necessary to Identify and delineate flood risk areas within cities in order to curb it menace. This study employs geospatial technique to delineate flood risk areas within Kano metropolis with a view to mitigating its impact on lives and properties. Digital Elevation Model (ASTER DEM 30m) was used to derive excess surface run-off attributes including flow direction and accumulation. Based on these attributes, flood risk areas were determined and delineated using buffer distances of 500 meters. World View image (30 cm spatial resolution) was used to identify the landuses at risk. The result from the analysis delineated flood risk areas at varying exposure levels (i.e high, moderate and low).It was evident that flood risk level within the metropolis corresponds to the pattern of surface run-off flow accumulation areas. Settlements and farmlands found within high accumulation areas along the floodplains of River Jakara (in the North and North-eastern part) and Kano-Zaria road (southern part) are at higher risk than those found on low accumulation areas. The study concluded that excess surface run-off flow direction and accumulation are among the fundamental factors determining the risk to urban flooding. The study recommends that with the ongoing level of urban development and impervious surface expansion, urban planners and policy makers should make use of the flow direction and accumulation maps in determining safer places for future developments.
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Yunus, Sulaiman. "DELINEATION OF URBAN FLOOD RISK AREAS USING GEOSPATIAL TECHNIQUE." FUDMA JOURNAL OF SCIENCES 5, no. 1 (June 25, 2021): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.33003/fjs-2021-0501-533.
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The threat posed by urban flooding in most cities of the world is becoming alarming especially within the recent decades. This makes it necessary to Identify and delineate flood risk areas within cities in order to curb it menace. This study employs geospatial technique to delineate flood risk areas within Kano metropolis with a view to mitigating its impact on lives and properties. Digital Elevation Model (ASTER DEM 30m) was used to derive excess surface run-off attributes including flow direction and accumulation. Based on these attributes, flood risk areas were determined and delineated using buffer distances of 500 meters. World View image (30 cm spatial resolution) was used to identify the landuses at risk. The result from the analysis delineated flood risk areas at varying exposure levels (i.e high, moderate and low).It was evident that flood risk level within the metropolis corresponds to the pattern of surface run-off flow accumulation areas. Settlements and farmlands found within high accumulation areas along the floodplains of River Jakara (in the North and North-eastern part) and Kano-Zaria road (southern part) are at higher risk than those found on low accumulation areas. The study concluded that excess surface run-off flow direction and accumulation are among the fundamental factors determining the risk to urban flooding. The study recommends that with the ongoing level of urban development and impervious surface expansion, urban planners and policy makers should make use of the flow direction and accumulation maps in determining safer places for future developments
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Sun, Xiaomeng, Xingjian Liu, and Yang Zhou. "Delineating Peri-Urban Areas Using Multi-Source Geo-Data: A Neural Network Approach and SHAP Explanation." Remote Sensing 15, no. 16 (August 21, 2023): 4106. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs15164106.
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Delineating urban and peri-urban areas has often used information from multiple sources including remote sensing images, nighttime light images, and points-of-interest (POIs). Human mobility from big geo-spatial data could also be relevant for delineating peri-urban areas but its use is not fully explored. Moreover, it is necessary to assess how individual data sources are associated with identification results. Aiming at these gaps, we apply a neural network model to integrate indicators from multi-sources including land cover maps, nighttime light imagery as well as incorporating information about human movement from taxi trips to identify peri-urban areas. SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) values are used as an explanation tool to assess how different data sources and indicators may be associated with delineation results. Wuhan, China is selected as a case study. Our findings highlight that socio-economic indicators, such as nighttime light intensity, have significant impacts on the identification of peri-urban areas. Spatial/physical attributes derived from land cover images and road density have relative low associations. Moreover, taxi intensity as a typical human movement dataset may complement nighttime light and POIs datasets, especially in refining boundaries between peri-urban and urban areas. Our study could inform the selection of data sources for identifying peri-urban areas, especially when facing data availability issues.
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Zoraghein, Hamidreza, and Stefan Leyk. "Estimating changes in urban land and urban population using refined areal interpolation techniques." Proceedings of the ICA 1 (May 16, 2018): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/ica-proc-1-130-2018.
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The analysis of changes in urban land and population is important because the majority of future population growth will take place in urban areas. U.S. Census historically classifies urban land using population density and various land-use criteria. This study analyzes the reliability of census-defined urban lands for delineating the spatial distribution of urban population and estimating its changes over time. To overcome the problem of incompatible enumeration units between censuses, regular areal interpolation methods including Areal Weighting (AW) and Target Density Weighting (TDW), with and without spatial refinement, are implemented. The goal in this study is to estimate urban population in Massachusetts in 1990 and 2000 (source zones), within tract boundaries of the 2010 census (target zones), respectively, to create a consistent time series of comparable urban population estimates from 1990 to 2010. Spatial refinement is done using ancillary variables such as census-defined urban areas, the National Land Cover Database (NLCD) and the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) as well as different combinations of them. The study results suggest that census-defined urban areas alone are not necessarily the most meaningful delineation of urban land. Instead, it appears that alternative combinations of the above-mentioned ancillary variables can better depict the spatial distribution of urban land, and thus make it possible to reduce the estimation error in transferring the urban population from source zones to target zones when running spatially-refined temporal areal interpolation.
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Gawrońska-Nowak, Bogna, Piotr Lis, and Olha Zadorozhna. "Deliniation of metropolitan areas in Poland: A functional approach." Economics & Sociology 15, no. 4 (December 2022): 80–113. http://dx.doi.org/10.14254/2071-789x.2022/15-4/4.
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elineation of urban functional areas helps policymakers and urban planners understand the connections between the core cities and areas surrounding them, and subsequently develop policies and solutions that can serve local populations. This article develops a readily applicable econometric method for delineation that considers functional aspects of cities and their surroundings. We perform delineation analysis using the data for 78 Polish core cities, grouping them by population size. Using the satellite data on lights emitted at night, population density, commuter numbers as well as the number of houses and apartments built in each commune, we apply a threshold regression model to determine the boundaries of functional urban areas. Our main results suggest that the mean radius of functional urban areas (FUAs) around the largest (most populous) cities is, on average, 21 km, while it is between 13 and 16 km for smaller cities. We then test how the econometric results compare with the perceptions of local inhabitants through a citizen science project (CSP) conducted as a robustness check.
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Chen, Meifang, Yongwan Chun, and Daniel A. Griffith. "Delineating Housing Submarkets Using Space–Time House Sales Data: Spatially Constrained Data-Driven Approaches." Journal of Risk and Financial Management 16, no. 6 (June 2, 2023): 291. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jrfm16060291.
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With the increasing availability of large volumes of space–time house data, delineating space–time housing submarkets is of interest to real estate agents, homebuyers, urban policymakers, and spatial researchers, among others. Appropriately delineated housing submarkets can help nurture submarket monitoring and housing policy developments. Although submarkets are often expected to represent areas with similar houses, neighborhoods, and amenities characteristics, delineating spatially contiguous areas with virtually no fragmented small areas remains challenging. Furthermore, housing submarkets can potentially change over time along with concomitant urban transformations, such as urban sprawl, gentrification, and infrastructure improvements, even in large metropolitan areas, which can complicate delineating submarkets with data for lengthy time periods. This study proposes a new method for integrating a random effects model with spatially constrained data-driven approaches in order to identify stable and reliable space–time housing submarkets, instead of their dynamic changes. This random effects model specification is expected to capture time-invariant spatial patterns, which can help identify stable submarkets over time. It highlights two spatially constrained data-driven approaches, ClustGeo and REDCAP, which perform equally well and produce similar space–time housing submarket structures. This proposed method is utilized for a case study of Franklin County, Ohio, using 19 years of space–time private house transaction data (2001–2019). A comparative analysis using a hedonic model demonstrates that the resulting submarkets generated by the proposed method perform better than popular alternative submarket creators in terms of model performances and house price predictions. Enhanced space–time housing delineation can furnish a way to better understand the sophisticated housing market structures, and to help enhance their modeling and housing policy. This paper contributes to the literature on space–time housing submarket delineations with enhanced approaches to effectively generate spatially constrained housing submarkets using data-driven methods.
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Serohin, Denys, and Sergiy Kostrikov. "Towards urbanistic geosituation delineation." 58, no. 58 (June 1, 2023): 241–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.26565/2410-7360-2023-58-19.
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Introduction. Modern cities are complex and rapidly expanding systems. For their more effective study, it is necessary to use methods of urban remote sensing, in particular, LiDAR survey. Processed LiDAR survey data, visualized in a 3D scene, model a certain urban configuration that represents a static picture of the relationships between objects, processes and phenomena in the urban environment. The representation of such configurations in the dynamic plane are urbanistic geosituations. The main research objective of the paper is to define the concept and present the essence of the urbanistic geosituation. Results. The urbanistic geosituation is a dynamic aspect of a certain state of the urban environment, in which there are objects, processes and phenomena that are in dialectical unity with this urban environment. The urbanistic geosituation can be represented as a separate area of the urban environment in a certain research context with a specific state that is currently not inherent in other areas. The article describes in detail the property of the structural heredity of geosituations, which can be traced during the growth of cities. New buildings and roads are laid out taking into account the existing layout, thus inheriting the structure of the original geosituations. On the example of the city of Washington using 2D and 3D maps, the article discusses the features of identifying inherited urbanistic geosituations using the general functionality of visual analysis. On the example of the city of Kharkiv are described urban problems that arise as a result of unplanned development and ignoring the structural heredity of urbanistic geosituations. Repeating geosituations with common properties and internal configurations are combined into different rank geosituational patterns, which are tracked on city maps with the naked eye. The higher the rank of the pattern, the more stable it is, and the larger territories it covers in terms of more generalized properties. The formation of geosituations patterns is successfully combined with the feature of collecting and storing LiDAR data, which are divided into many areas of the same size – tiles. An important property of urbanistic geosituations is their variability, which manifests itself in the city study in the context of the daily population concentration. Diverse internal urban processes and phenomena often lead to the emergence of urbanistic geosituations that characterize the temporary gravity centers of the population. To search, identify and analyze urbanistic geosituations, it is necessary to use two key components – global coverage maps and geographic information systems (GIS). The article describes a special web-GIS that combines these components and provides an environment for exploring urbanistic geosituations in a 3D scene. Three use-cases are also proposed for analyzing urban systems at the geosituational level: visibility analysis, buildings energy consumption estimation, and population estimation [11, 21]. Conclusions. The geosituational approach in urban research can significantly improve the urban environment study. The repeatability of urban geosituations and the small data sets that can be obtained using LiDAR surveys provide grounds for their effective analysis and visualization in GIS, as a result of which it is possible to extract urban geosystem properties that can be relevant for the entire city.
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Lai, Zhipeng, Chengjing Chen, Jianguo Chen, Zhuo Wu, Fang Wang, and Shaoying Li. "Multi-Scenario Simulation of Land-Use Change and Delineation of Urban Growth Boundaries in County Area: A Case Study of Xinxing County, Guangdong Province." Land 11, no. 9 (September 17, 2022): 1598. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11091598.
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Delineating urban growth boundaries (UGBs) by combining the land-use/land-cover (LULC) change simulation method has become common in recent studies. However, few of the existing studies have integrated multi-source big data to analyze the driving factors of LULC dynamics in the simulation. Moreover, most of previous studies mainly focused on the UGBs delineation in macroscale areas rather than small-scale areas, such as the county area. In this study, taking Xinxing County of Guangdong Province as the study area, we coupled a system dynamics (SD) model and a patch-generating land-use simulation (PLUS) model to propose a framework for the LULC change simulation and UGBs delineation in the county area. Multi-source big data such as points of interest (POIs), night-time light (NTL) data and Tencent user density (TUD) were integrated to analyze the driving forces of LULC change. The validation results indicate that the coupled model received high accuracy both in the land-use demand projection and LULC distribution simulation. The combination of multi-source big data can effectively describe the influence of human socio-economic factors on the expansion of urban land and industrial land. The UGBs delineation results have similar spatial patterns with the LULC change simulation results, which indicates that the proposed UGBs delineation method can effectively transform the LULC simulation results into available UGBs for the county area. It has been proven that the proposed framework in this study is effective for the LULC change simulation and UGBs delineation in the county area, which can provide insight on territorial spatial planning in the county area.
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Gajovic, Vojkan. "Comparative analysis of different methods and obtained results for delineation of functional urban areas." Spatium, no. 29 (2013): 8–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/spat1329008g.
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European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON) recognizes Potential Urban Strategic Horizons (PUSH) and Potential Polycentric Integration Areas (PIA) as territory of one or more neighboring Functional Urban Areas (FUA). Delineation of FUA territory can be done by using general ESPON methodology, based on a 45-minute car travel time from the center of respective FUAs. This approach is based on network proximity by using shortest path in road network between two nodes. Later, results are approximated on administrative or statistical territorial units, so that PUSH areas are determined. However, other methods for delineation of FUA territory can be used. This paper deals with other methods that can be used for delineation of FUA territory. Some of those methods are based on machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence which develops algorithms that take as input empirical data, such as that from sensors or databases. Created algorithms identify complex relationships thought to be features of the underlying mechanism that generated the data, and engage these identified patterns to make predictions based on new data. Clustering and artificial neural networks are some of approaches that can be undoubtedly used for delineation of FUAs territory, based on unsupervised learning and statistical data analysis. This is statistical approach, which clusters administrative or statistical territorial units based on statistical data, and not by network proximity. Such methods involve usage of Self Organizing Maps (SOM) which implies usage of neighborhood function to preserve the topological properties, or using k-means clustering, which partition observations into clusters by dividing space into Voronoi cells. Results obtained from both approaches will be analyzed in order to define the most appropriate method for FUAs territory delineation in Serbia.
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Yang, Gong, Tang, Shen, Liu, and Gao. "Delineation of Urban Growth Boundaries Using a Patch-Based Cellular Automata Model under Multiple Spatial and Socio-Economic Scenarios." Sustainability 11, no. 21 (November 4, 2019): 6159. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11216159.
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The urban growth boundary (UGB) plays an important role in the regulation of urban sprawl and the conservation of natural ecosystems. The delineation of UGBs is a common strategy in urban planning, especially in metropolitan areas undergoing fast expansion. However, reliable tools for the delineation of informed UGBs are still not widely available for planners. In this study, a patch-based cellular automaton (CA) model was applied to build UGBs, in which urban expansions were represented as organic and spontaneous patch growing processes. The proposed CA model enables the modeler to build various spatial and socio-economic scenarios for UGB delineation. Parameters that control the patch size and shape, along with the spatial compactness of an urban growth pattern, were optimized using a genetic algorithm. A random forest model was employed to estimate the probability of urban development. Six scenarios in terms of the demand and the spatial pattern of urban land allocation were constructed to generate UGB alternatives based on the simulated urban land maps from the CA model. Application of the proposed model in Ezhou, China from 2004 to 2030 reveals that the model proposed in this study can help urban planners make informed decisions on the delineation of UGBs under different scenarios.
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Huang, Qingyao, Yihua Liu, and Chengjing Chen. "Quantifying Urban Expansion from the Perspective of Geographic Data: A Case Study of Guangzhou, China." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 11, no. 5 (May 10, 2022): 303. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi11050303.
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Understanding and quantifying urban expansion is critical to urban management and urban planning. The accurate delineation of built-up areas (BUAs) is the foundation for quantifying urban expansion. To quantify urban expansion simply and efficiently, we proposed a method for delineating BUAs using geographic data, taking Guangzhou as the study area. First, Guangzhou’s natural cities (NCs) in 2014 and 2020 were derived from the point of interest (POI) data. Second, multiple grid maps were combined with NCs to delineate BUAs. Third, the optimal grid map for delineating BUA was determined based on the real BUA data and applying accuracy evaluation indexes. Finally, by comparing the 2014 and 2020 BUAs delineated by the optimal grid maps, we quantified the urban expansion occurring in Guangzhou. The results demonstrated the following. (1) The accuracy score of the BUAs delineated by the 200 m × 200 m grid map reaches a maximum. (2) The BUAs in the central urban area of Guangzhou had a smaller area of expansion, while the northern and southern areas of Guangzhou experienced considerable urban expansion. (3) The BUA expansion was smaller in all spatial orientations in the developed district, while the BUA expansion was larger in all spatial orientations in the developing district. This study provides a new method for delineating BUAs and a new perspective for mapping the spatial distribution of urban BUAs, which helps to better understand and quantify urban expansion.
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Bajracharya, Pankaj, and Selima Sultana. "Examining the Use of Urban Growth Boundary for Future Urban Expansion of Chattogram, Bangladesh." Sustainability 14, no. 9 (May 5, 2022): 5546. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14095546.
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With the rapid and unregulated nature of urban expansion occurring in Chattogram, Bangladesh, the adoption of urban growth restriction mechanisms such as the urban growth boundary (UGB) can provide a robust framework necessary to direct the development of built-up areas in a way that curtails the growth in environmentally sensitive areas of the city. Using a support vector machine (SVM)-based urban growth simulation model, this paper examines the areas of future contiguous expansion of the city to aid in the delineation of the UGB. Utilizing landcover, topographic, and population density data from a variety of sources for the past twenty years, the SVM method with the radial basis function (RBF) kernel is used to develop a model based on fourteen predictor variables. A grid-search is used to tune the hyperparameters and determine the best performance combination of the hyperparameters for the RBF kernel function used in the SVM. The final SVM model using the best performance combination of the hyperparameters indicates a high percentage agreement of 91.79% and a substantial agreement for the Kappa coefficient of 0.7699. The developed SVM simulation model identifies potential areas that are more likely to undergo urban expansion in Chattogram in the next twenty years and provides aids for a stringent and strict delineation of UGB for this region.
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Leitão, J. P., D. Prodanović, S. Boonya-aroonnet, and Č. Maksimović. "Enhanced DEM-based flow path delineation methods for urban flood modelling." Journal of Hydroinformatics 15, no. 2 (December 13, 2012): 568–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2012.275.
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In order to simulate surface runoff and flooding, one-dimensional (1D) overland flow networks can be automatically delineated using digital elevation models (DEM). The resulting network comprises flow paths and terrain depressions/ponds and is essential to reliably model pluvial (surface) flooding events in urban areas by so-called 1D/1D models. Conventional automatic DEM-based flow path delineation methods have problems in producing realistic overland flow paths when detailed high-resolution DEMs of urban areas are used. The aim of this paper is to present the results of research and development of three enhanced DEM-based overland flow path delineation methods; these methods are triggered when the conventional flow path delineation process stops due to a flow obstacle. Two of the methods, the ‘bouncing ball and buildings’ and ‘bouncing ball and A*’ methods, are based on the conventional ‘bouncing ball’ concept; the third proposed method, the ‘sliding ball’ method, is based on the physical water accumulation concept. These enhanced methods were tested and their results were compared with results obtained using two conventional flow path delineation methods using a semi-synthetic test DEM. The results showed significant improvements in terms of the reliability of the delineated overland flow paths when using these enhanced methods.
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Sridhar, M. B., and R. Sathyanathan. "Assessment of Urban Expansion and Identification of Sprawl Through Delineation of Urban Core Boundary." Journal of Landscape Ecology 15, no. 3 (December 1, 2022): 102–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jlecol-2022-0020.
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Abstract Cities are spatially expanding rapidly, leading to urban sprawl. This study aims to understand the nature of the urban expansion of Chennai city, located on India’s southeastern coast, by determining the urban growth pattern and identifying the urban sprawl areas. The urban growth pattern and sprawl areas between 1998 and 2019 are identified using remote sensing data through the delineation of the Urban Core Boundary (UCB). The urban areas were extracted from the Land Use Land Cover (LULC) classification using combined classification technique to delineate the UCB. All the findings were validated using ground truth information. LULC classification performed with an accuracy of more than 90 % for urban land cover revealed an increase in urban cover by 71.77% from 1998 to 2009 and 36.91 % from 2009 to 2019. The delineated UCB’s peripheral distance was measured from the city centre in an anticlockwise direction from 0˚ to 360˚ at every 10˚ interval. It is observed that the urban core boundary expanded to a maximum of 16.02 km along 240˚ and 11.93 km along 220˚ from the city centre, and the lands in the vicinity of the National Highway (NH 32), which is situated between these sectors, experienced maximum urban development. The study also pinpointed the sprawl areas during the study period, revealing that the urban sprawl occurs along the highways, around designated special economic zones, and industrial corridors.
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Chen, Dong, Rongrong Liu, and Maoxian Zhou. "Delineation of Urban Growth Boundary Based on Habitat Quality and Carbon Storage: A Case Study of Weiyuan County in Gansu, China." Land 12, no. 5 (May 4, 2023): 1006. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land12051006.
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As the impacts of climate change worsen, the global community prioritizes addressing it and fostering low-carbon societies. Urban planning focuses on creating compact, smart-growth cities that prioritize low-carbon, green development, with resource and environmental capacities as hard constraints. Balancing urban development, environmental protection, and accurate urban boundary delineation is vital for stable growth. In this study, the ecosystem services of Weiyuan County, Gansu Province, were assessed using the InVEST model’s habitat quality and carbon storage modules. Key ecological protection areas with high biodiversity and carbon storage were identified. The CA-Markov model simulated urban expansion, dynamically coordinating ecological and urban development. Weiyuan County’s habitat quality was mainly intermediate. In the county’s central area, construction land coverage was 0.29 km2 in the priority protection zone and 0.49 km2 in the controlled development zone. Urban development boundaries in Weiyuan County were delineated based on ecosystem function rating and CA-Markov delineation. This method enhances urban management in ecologically fragile areas, promoting sustainable development and providing a reference for eco-economic sustainability in other fragile Chinese cities.
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Dinu, Cristian, Nicolai Sîrbu, and Radu Drobot. "Delineation of the Flooded Areas in Urban Environments Based on a Simplified Approach." Applied Sciences 12, no. 6 (March 20, 2022): 3174. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app12063174.
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The Tulcea municipality is frequently exposed to rainfall-generated floods, with its lower downtown area (located in the Danube’ former meadow, now protected by dikes) being flooded two to three times per year. In this study, our objective was to understand the generation mechanism of these rainfall-triggered urban floods and to identify tailored mitigation options. Due to the lack of reliable information on the sewage network (diameters, slope, material) and the uncertain sewage outflows during heavy rain events, a rather simplified approach was preferred by the authors of this paper. The data processing was performed using GIS tools, with appropriate accounting of the digital terrain modelling, ortho-photos, administrative boundaries of the Tulcea municipality, delineation of the urban catchments, imagery of the frequently flooded areas, and the urban sewage network. Subsequently, a fast hydrological modelling and a volume-based flooding approach were developed in order to identify and evaluate the flooded urban areas under extreme rainfall events. Upon the completion of the calibration and validation processes, numerical simulations were run that considered the design storms of different return periods. Due to the high slopes of the hills, hence the short concentration time of the pluvial waters, a Sponge City approach does not seem as though it would be easy to implement. A more efficient solution utilising large-capacity buried urban retention tanks in the lower part of the municipality was alternatively identified. Further on, this solution will be supported by a set of green measures.
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Drobne, Samo, Tadej Žaucer, Mojca Foški, and Alma Zavodnik Lamovšek. "Continuous built-up areas as a measure for delineation of urban settlements." Geodetski vestnik 58, no. 01 (2014): 069–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.15292/geodetski-vestnik.2014.01.069-102.
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Han, Nianlong, Ke Hu, Miao Yu, Peihong Jia, and Yiqing Zhang. "Incorporating Ecological Constraints into the Simulations of Tropical Urban Growth Boundaries: A Case Study of Sanya City on Hainan Island, China." Applied Sciences 12, no. 13 (June 23, 2022): 6409. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app12136409.
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The rapid expansion of cities in tropical regions has triggered a series of problems such as the destruction of rare natural resources and decreases in the environmental resource carrying capacity and ecological security, which seriously threaten the sustainable development of tropical cities. In this study, the city of Sanya, Hainan, China, is taken as an example. A bottom-line ecological security pattern is constructed based on the remote sensing ecological index (RSEI) and the patch-generating land use simulation (PLUS) for urban growth boundary (UGB) delineation. The results show that Sanya has a good ecological background, but the overall ecological quality decreased from 2014 to 2018 due to the expansion of construction in hot spot areas. Under the natural growth scenario, the urban built-up area in Sanya in 2030 will be 73.81% greater than in 2018, mainly occupying a large amount of agricultural and ecological space, and urban expansion will not be effectively suppressed. Delineation of the UGBs combined with the ecological constraints can effectively protect the regional ecological security and control the urban sprawl, which is relatively consistent with the current planning. The results of this study demonstrate that the RSEI-PLUS-based UGB delineation perspective has a high scientific and applicability, and they provide a reference for the coordinated ecological–economic sustainable development of ecologically fragile cities in tropical areas.
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Feng, Tianyi, and Ying Zhou. "Identification and Causes of Neighborhood Commercial Areas: Focusing on the Development of Daily Life Circles in Urban Built Environments." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 13, no. 11 (November 11, 2024): 406. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi13110406.
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Urban planning in China is shifting from an administrative unit-based approach to community life circle planning, aiming to align planning units with residents’ actual activity ranges. As the most fundamental life circle, daily life circle (DLC) planning must adopt a bottom-up approach. However, the widely applicable methods for delineating DLCs remain lacking. This study presents a strategy for delineating DLCs centered on neighborhood commercial areas that aggregate essential daily life services. Correspondingly, a method is proposed for identifying neighborhood commercial areas based on residents’ actual usage of facilities. The method was applied in Qinhuai District, Nanjing, where neighborhood commercial areas were identified and the factors influencing their formation and types were quantitatively analyzed. The results indicate the following: (1) the proposed method accurately identifies neighborhood commercial areas that can serve as DLC central areas; (2) commercial diversity, public transportation stops, and parking spots are the three most influential factors in neighborhood commercial area formation, exhibiting non-linear and threshold effects; and (3) the type of neighborhood commercial areas varies by population density, housing prices, and street betweenness, with betweenness being the most significant factor. These findings provide methods and indicators for DLC delineation and planning, contributing to the realization of the DLC construction concept.
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Man, Qixia, Pinliang Dong, Xinming Yang, Quanyuan Wu, and Rongqing Han. "Automatic Extraction of Grasses and Individual Trees in Urban Areas Based on Airborne Hyperspectral and LiDAR Data." Remote Sensing 12, no. 17 (August 23, 2020): 2725. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs12172725.
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Urban vegetation extraction is very important for urban biodiversity assessment and protection. However, due to the diversity of vegetation types and vertical structure, it is still challenging to extract vertical information of urban vegetation accurately with single remotely sensed data. Airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) can provide elevation information with high-precision, whereas hyperspectral data can provide abundant spectral information on ground objects. The complementary advantages of LiDAR and hyperspectral data could extract urban vegetation much more accurately. Therefore, a three-dimensional (3D) vegetation extraction workflow is proposed to extract urban grasses and trees at individual tree level in urban areas using airborne LiDAR and hyperspectral data. The specific steps are as follows: (1) airborne hyperspectral and LiDAR data were processed to extract spectral and elevation parameters, (2) random forest classification method and object-based classification method were used to extract the two-dimensional distribution map of urban vegetation, (3) individual tree segmentation was conducted on a canopy height model (CHM) and point cloud data separately to obtain three-dimensional characteristics of urban trees, and (4) the spatial distribution of urban vegetation and the individual tree delineation were assessed by validation samples and manual delineation results. The results showed that (1) both the random forest classification method and object-based classification method could extract urban vegetation accurately, with accuracies above 99%; (2) the watershed segmentation method based on the CHM could extract individual trees correctly, except for the small trees and the large tree groups; and (3) the individual tree segmentation based on point cloud data could delineate individual trees in three-dimensional space, which is much better than CHM segmentation as it can preserve the understory trees. All the results suggest that two- and three-dimensional urban vegetation extraction could play a significant role in spatial layout optimization and scientific management of urban vegetation.
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Yatsenko, Borys, and Olena Denysenko. "METROPOLITAN REGION: EVOLUTION OF THINKING AND SPATIAL ORGANIZATION FOR THE CASE OF NEW YORK METROPOLITAN AREA." GEOGRAPHY AND TOURISM, no. 66 (2021): 45–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2308-135x.2021.66.45-53.
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Aim. The article is aimed to show the evolution of approaches and current thinking on metropolitan regions in the context of world urbanization; to analyze the main tendencies of New York metropolitan area development – one of the biggest metropolitan regions in the world with a core in a global city; basing on the case of New York, to illustrate the evolution of the methodology for metropolitan region delineation, its planning and spatial development in long-term perspective. Methodology. The methodology is based on a long-term analysis of the dynamics of New York city as well as spatial organization of the metropolitan region from the viewpoint of the evolution of approaches for delineation of the urbanized areas in the US and spatial planning perspectives, basing on several generations of New York metropolitan area regional plans. Results. The article reflects the evolution of ideas and basic concepts of metropolitan regions development as spatial entities. Basing on the US experience in the methodology of urban areas delineation, the main changes over recent decades and their relation to urbanization processes are reflected, in particular the role of low-density corridors, population density and housing density as criteria for urban areas identification is analyzed. This experience can be used to develop a methodology for identifying metropolitan regions in Ukraine, making delineation process and providing more balanced governance policy for these regions. Using the example of New York, the article shows the need to constantly update and adapt governance and planning policies in such regions, which is reflected in changes of managing growth, now mostly focusing on reducing segregation, preventing climate change, enhancing institutional transformations and strengthening the role of spatial planning. Novelty. Revealing the experience of metropolitan regions delineation, challenges for their spatial development and planning strategy for the case of New York metropolitan area, the article reflects actual methodological approaches to metropolitan regions delineation, making governance policy and spatial planning that can be adapted in Ukraine. Among the key proposed changes aimed at strengthening the sustainable development of such regions in Ukraine - development the methodology for their delineation, elaboration of metropolitan region development strategy and spatial planning for the whole region.
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Adeleke, M. A. "Delineation of potential urban urogenital schistosomiasis transmission areas in Osogbo, south-west Nigeria." Nigerian Journal of Parasitology 38, no. 2 (September 29, 2017): 165. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/njpar.v38i2.6.
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Nguyen, Tuan D. "Examining the Teacher Labor Market in Different Rural Contexts: Variations by Urbanicity and Rural States." AERA Open 6, no. 4 (July 2020): 233285842096633. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2332858420966336.
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Using repeated cross-sectional nationally representative data, we demonstrate how the teacher labor markets for rural contexts are different from those in urban-suburban areas. We also show that teacher attrition is not uniform across various rural settings. In particular, novice teachers in rural schools in sparsely populated states are more likely to turn over than novice teachers in urban-suburban schools in sparsely populated states. We also examine how teacher and school characteristics are associated with turnover in different rural contexts. The findings indicate there should be a concerted effort to examine teacher attrition in various rural contexts and not simply as delineation from urban-suburban areas.
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Ye, Yumin, Yike Tang, and Jiejing Wang. "The Delineation and Characterisation of Chinese Urbanised Areas Using Micro-Scale Population Census Data." Land 13, no. 6 (May 29, 2024): 763. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land13060763.
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The definition of cities from the physical view in China is lacking. Most research regarding Chinese cities relies on the definition from the administrative view, which is often inconsistent as there are serious discrepancies between the administrative boundaries and the physical extent of Chinese cities. This study aims to delineate Chinese urbanised areas using population census data at the township level and analyse the identified urbanised areas’ characteristics. The results show that the numbers of Chinese urbanised areas in 2000, 2010, and 2020 were 758, 942, and 1058, respectively, indicating there are several ‘cities outside the system’ that meet the requirements of urban agglomeration but are constrained by the city designation system. The degree of population aggregation and the growth rate of urbanised areas are greater than those of administrative cities. This indicates that the geographical scopes of administrative cities cannot accurately reflect the ‘real’ urban areas. Additionally, the city-size distribution follows Zipf’s law, with the Zipf coefficient moving closer to one if we fit the Zipf model based on the urbanised areas. It is necessary to establish official urbanised areas and publish statistical data based on urbanised areas, which could have significant implications both for policymakers and researchers.
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Schumacher, Ulrich. "Analysis Options for Urban Green Spaces Based on Unified Urban Masks: Selected Results for European Cities." Land 13, no. 1 (December 24, 2023): 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land13010027.
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At a time of rising urbanisation and climate change, urban green spaces (UGSs) are an essential element to help adapt to extreme weather events. Especially in urban core areas, heat and drought are regarded as human stress factors. The delineation of such areas constitutes an important reference geometry in topographic geodata (urban mask). This article deals with possibilities for investigating UGSs in European cities—based on unified urban masks—by applying city-wide metrics to Copernicus data (Urban Atlas including the Street Tree Layer). Both public and tree-covered urban green spaces are examined in detail. Selected results are presented for 30 European cities that display a wide range of urban structures. The spatial reference to uniformly delineated urban masks places the analytical focus of city-wide metrics onto corresponding core areas. In general, the values of UGS metrics vary considerably between cities, indicating the strong influence of city-specific factors on urban structures in Europe. For the comparative analysis of tree-covered urban areas, the Urban Green Raster Germany and a municipal tree register are used to provide additional data sources. The regular updating of the Copernicus dataset means that green spaces in European cities can be monitored, also using urban masks.
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Yi, Dan, Xi Guo, Yi Han, Jie Guo, Minghao Ou, and Xiaomin Zhao. "Coupling Ecological Security Pattern Establishment and Construction Land Expansion Simulation for Urban Growth Boundary Delineation: Framework and Application." Land 11, no. 3 (March 1, 2022): 359. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11030359.
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Reasonable delineation of the urban growth boundary (UGB) plays a vital role in guiding orderly urban space growth and ensuring urban environmental health. Existing methodologies for UGB delineation have failed to address the significance of ecological security. Therefore, this study presents a framework that couples ecological security pattern (ESP) establishment and construction land expansion (CLE) simulation to delineate the UGB. The proposed framework is applied to the Nanchang Metropolitan Area (NCMA) in southeastern China. First, we established the regional ESP of the NCMA in 2018 based on an improved minimum cumulative resistance model. The areas of low-, medium-, and high-level ESP were 1050.75, 736.42, and 720.59 km2, respectively. Second, we implemented a multi-scenario simulation of CLE in the NCMA in 2025 based on a cellular automata–Markov model. A natural development scenario was superior to urban growth and ecological protection scenarios for social, economic, and ecological development at the regional scale. Accordingly, we delineated the UGB of the NCMA in 2025 with a scale of 687.87 km2, based on dynamic adjustment using the results of ESP establishment and CLE simulation in the natural development scenario. The rationality and scientificity of the proposed framework were verified by comparing the scale and layout of the delineated UGB with the regional planning of Nanchang City. The framework incorporating dynamic adjustment with ESP establishment and multi-scenario CLE simulation provides a useful tool for the delineation of the UGB in similar urbanized cities. Its application is conducive to achieving a win–win outcome of regional ecological security and urban development.
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Sanhouse-García, Antonio J., Jesús Gabriel Rangel-Peraza, Sergio A. Rentería-Guevara, Yaneth A. Bustos-Terrones, Zuriel D. Mora-Félix, Wenseslao Plata-Rocha, and Sergio Alberto Monjardin-Armenta. "Flood-Prone Area Delineation in Urban Subbasins Based on Stream Ordering: Culiacan Urban Basin as a Study Case." Sustainability 13, no. 24 (December 7, 2021): 13513. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su132413513.
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Urban development decreases infiltration, increases the runoff velocity, and reduces the concentration times. This situation increases the flood risk in urban watersheds, which represent a management challenge for urban communities and authorities. To increase the resilience of communities due to modifications of the hydrological cycle produced by climate change and urban development, a methodology is proposed to delineate flood-prone areas in urban basins. This methodology is implemented in an urban subbasin of Culiacan, Mexico, and is based on stream order. A high-resolution digital elevation model was used, which was validated independently through a photogrammetric flight with an unmanned aerial vehicle and ground control points obtained with GNSS (global navigation satellite systems) receivers. Morphometric parameters related to geometry, shape, relief, and drainage network aspects of the subbasin were determined and analyzed. Then, flood-prone area zonation was carried out based on stream-order classification and flow direction. Fieldwork was also carried out for the inspection of the sewage network conditions. This methodology simplifies the identification of the flood-prone areas in urban subbasins without carrying out complex hydraulic calculations.
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Lehnert, Michal, Stevan Savić, Dragan Milošević, Jelena Dunjić, and Jan Geletič. "Mapping Local Climate Zones and Their Applications in European Urban Environments: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Development Trends." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 10, no. 4 (April 12, 2021): 260. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi10040260.
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In the light of climate change and burgeoning urbanization, heat loads in urban areas have emerged as serious issues, affecting the well-being of the population and the environment. In response to a pressing need for more standardised and communicable research into urban climate, the concept of local climate zones (LCZs) has been created. This concept aims to define the morphological types of (urban) surface with respect to the formation of local climatic conditions, largely thermal. This systematic review paper analyses studies that have applied the concept of LCZs to European urban areas. The methodology utilized pre-determined keywords and five steps of literature selection. A total of 91 studies were found eligible for analysis. The results show that the concept of LCZs has been increasingly employed and become well established in European urban climate research. Dozens of measurements, satellite observations, and modelling outcomes have demonstrated the characteristic thermal responses of LCZs in European cities. However, a substantial number of the studies have concentrated on the methodological development of the classification process, generating a degree of inconsistency in the delineation of LCZs. Recent trends indicate an increasing prevalence of the accessible remote-sensing based approach over accurate GIS-based methods in the delineation of LCZs. In this context, applications of the concept in fine-scale modelling appear limited. Nevertheless, the concept of the LCZ has proven appropriate and valuable to the provision of metadata for urban stations, (surface) urban heat island analysis, and the assessment of outdoor thermal comfort and heat risk. Any further development of LCZ mapping appears to require a standardised objective approach that may be globally applicable.
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Ferreira, Edinilson de Castro, and Jaime Joaquim da Silva Pereira Cabral. "Modeling and Optimization of Detention Basins For Cost Minimization and Flood Mitigation in Urban Areas." Revista de Gestão Social e Ambiental 19, no. 1 (January 8, 2025): e010683. https://doi.org/10.24857/rgsa.v19n1-016.
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Objective: The objective of this study was to develop and apply an optimization model for the sizing of detention reservoirs in an urban watershed, aiming to minimize implementation costs and mitigate flood risks in critical areas. Theoretical Framework: The study is based on flood control models and urban drainage infrastructure, focusing on optimization techniques applied to water resource management. References include the SCS Curve Number method for surface runoff, the PCSWMM hydrological model for precipitation simulations, and the HEC-RAS hydraulic model for flood area delineation. Method: The research was divided into three main stages: (i) physical and hydrological characterization of the watershed using PCSWMM; (ii) delineation of flood-prone areas with HEC-RAS 2D; and (iii) development of a nonlinear optimization model in GAMS for the sizing of detention reservoirs. The decision variables included the height, surface area, and outlet diameter of the reservoirs, with implementation cost as the main objective function. Results and Discussion: The optimization modeling determined the ideal characteristics of six reservoirs distributed throughout the watershed to maximize retention and flow control. The total flooded area was estimated at 270,989 m², with maximum depths reaching 1.914 meters. The total cost of the reservoir system was calculated at approximately R$ 1,164,845.91, providing an optimized solution for flood control in the watershed’s vulnerable areas. Research Implications: The results suggest a practical and feasible solution for flood control in urban watersheds, offering a replicable model that can aid in planning drainage infrastructure in other regions facing similar challenges. Originality/Value: This study is original in its integrated application of PCSWMM and HEC-RAS models with a nonlinear optimization approach in GAMS, resulting in an efficient and economical solution for flood mitigation in urbanized areas.
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Geletič, Jan, and Michal Lehnert. "GIS-based delineation of local climate zones: The case of medium-sized Central European cities." Moravian Geographical Reports 24, no. 3 (September 1, 2016): 2–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/mgr-2016-0012.
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Abstract Stewart and Oke (2012) recently proposed the concept of Local Climate Zones (LCZ) to describe the siting of urban meteorological stations and to improve the presentation of results amongst researchers. There is now a concerted effort, however, within the field of urban climate studies to map the LCZs across entire cities, providing a means to compare the internal structure of urban areas in a standardised way and to enable the comparison of cities. We designed a new GIS-based LCZ mapping method for Central European cities and compiled LCZ maps for three selected medium-sized Central European cities: Brno, Hradec Králové, and Olomouc (Czech Republic). The method is based on measurable physical properties and a clearly defined decision-making algorithm. Our analysis shows that the decision-making algorithm for defining the percentage coverage for individual LCZs showed good agreement (in 79–89% of cases) with areas defined on the basis of expert knowledge. When the distribution of LCZs on the basis of our method and the method of Bechtel and Daneke (2012) was compared, the results were broadly similar; however, considerable differences occurred for LCZs 3, 5, 10, D, and E. It seems that Central European cities show a typical spatial pattern of LCZ distribution but that rural settlements in the region also regularly form areas of built-type LCZ classes. The delineation and description of the spatial distribution of LCZs is an important step towards the study of urban climates in a regional setting.
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Demedyuk, Olha P. "The features of the delineation of cross-border areas: a comparative analysis of European and domestic approaches." Socio-Economic Problems of the Modern Period of Ukraine, no. 5(151) (2021): 9–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.36818/2071-4653-2021-5-2.
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The paper addresses the major scientific approaches of European and Ukrainian researchers to the interpretation of the cross-border area concept. It defines the main features and attributes of cross-border areas by each of the approaches. The author classifies main approaches to the delineation of cross-border areas by their features and attributes, focusing on administrative, institutional, political, and functional components, the intensity of cooperation, the difference in the levels of socio-economic development of adjoining border areas, common geographical, historical, cultural, or economic features or opportunities, and the features of functioning of the territories’ socio-economic development elements (changes in the number of population of areas within the 30-minute drive to the border or existing or prospective impacts of urban center located at the border or divided by the border), simple belonging to adjoining administrative-territorial units, etc. The paper provides examples of the functioning of cross-border areas by the analyzed approaches to their definition and types determined based on the conducted classification. Special attention is paid to the functional approach to the delineation of cross-border areas as the most common in foreign practice. The approach stipulates the delineation of cross-border areas by the strength of various types of links between the cross-border cooperation participants regardless of the size of the area they are located at, the size of the administrative-territorial unit they are the part of, or the availability of institutional environment. The reasonability of the application of approaches used by European researchers to delineate cross-border areas in Ukrainian realities is verified.
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Yu, Jing, Yingying Meng, Size Zhou, Huaiwen Zeng, Ming Li, Zhaoxia Chen, and Yan Nie. "Research on Spatial Delineation Method of Urban-Rural Fringe Combining POI and Nighttime Light Data—Taking Wuhan City as an Example." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20, no. 5 (March 1, 2023): 4395. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20054395.
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The boundary delineation of the urban-rural fringe (URF) is the basic work of fine planning and governance of cities, which plays a positive role in promoting the process of global sustainable development and urban and rural integration. In the past, the delineation of URF had shortcomings such as a single selected data source, difficulty in obtaining data, and low spatial and temporal resolution. This study combines Point of Interest (POI) and Nighttime Light (NTL) data, proposes a new spatial recognition method of URF according to the characteristics of urban and rural spatial structure, and conducts empirical analysis with Wuhan as the research object, combining the information entropy of land use structure, NDVI, and population density data to verify and compare the delineation results and field verification was conducted for typical areas. The results show that (1) the fusion of POI and NTL can maximize the use of the characteristics of the differences in facility types, light intensity, and resolution between POI and NTL, compared with the urban-rural fringe boundary identified by POI, NTL or population density data alone, and it is more accurate and time-sensitive; (2) NPP and POI (fusion data of Suomi NPP-VIIRS and POI) can quantitatively identify potential central area and multi-layer structure of the city. It fluctuates between 0.2 and 0.6 in the urban core area of Wuhan and between 0.1 and 0.3 in the new town clusters, while in the URF and rural areas drops sharply to below 0.1; (3) the urban-rural fringe area of Wuhan covers a total area of 1482.35 km2, accounting for 17.30% of the total area of the city. Its land use types are mainly construction land, water area, and cultivated land, accounting for 40.75%, 30.03%, and 14.60% of the URF, respectively. Its NDVI and population density are at a medium level, with values of 1.630 and 2556.28 persons/km2, respectively; (4) the double mutation law of NPP and POI in urban and rural space confirms that the URF exists objectively as a regional entity generated in the process of urban expansion, provides empirical support for the theory of urban and rural ternary structure, and has a positive reference value for the allocation of global infrastructure, industrial division, ecological function division, and other researches.
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Samela, Caterina, Raffaele Albano, Aurelia Sole, and Salvatore Manfreda. "A GIS tool for cost-effective delineation of flood-prone areas." Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 70 (July 2018): 43–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2018.01.013.
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Rybnikova, Nataliya, Boris A. Portnov, Igal Charney, and Sviatoslav Rybnikov. "Delineating Functional Urban Areas Using a Multi-Step Analysis of Artificial Light-at-Night Data." Remote Sensing 13, no. 18 (September 17, 2021): 3714. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs13183714.
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A functional urban area (FUA) is a geographic entity that consists of a densely inhabited city and a less densely populated commuting zone, both highly integrated through labor markets. The delineation of FUAs is important for comparative urban studies and it is commonly performed using census data and data on commuting flows. However, at the national scale, censuses and commuting surveys are performed at low frequency, and, on the global scale, consistent and comparable data are difficult to obtain overall. In this paper, we suggest and test a novel approach based on artificial light at night (ALAN) satellite data to delineate FUAs. As ALAN is emitted by illumination of thoroughfare roads, frequented by commuters, and by buildings surrounding roads, ALAN data can be used, as we hypothesize, for the identification of FUAs. However, as individual FUAs differ by their ALAN emissions, different ALAN thresholds are needed to delineate different FUAs, even those in the same country. To determine such differential thresholds, we use a multi-step approach. First, we analyze the ALAN flux distribution and determine the most frequent ALAN value observed in each FUA. Next, we adjust this value for the FUA’s compactness, and run regressions, in which the estimated ALAN threshold is the dependent variable. In these models, we use several readily available, or easy-to-calculate, characteristics of FUA cores, such as latitude, proximity to the nearest major city, population density, and population density gradient, as predictors. At the next step, we use the estimated models to define optimal ALAN thresholds for individual FUAs, and then compare the boundaries of FUAs, estimated by modelling, with commuting-based delineations. To measure the degree of correspondence between the commuting-based and model-predicted FUAs’ boundaries, we use the Jaccard index, which compares the size of the intersection with the size of the union of each pair of delineations. We apply the proposed approach to two European countries—France and Spain—which host 82 and 72 FUAs, respectively. As our analysis shows, ALAN thresholds, estimated by modelling, fit FUAs’ commuting boundaries with an accuracy of up to 75–100%, being, on the average, higher for large and densely-populated FUAs, than for small, low-density ones. We validate the estimated models by applying them to another European country—Austria—which demonstrates the prediction accuracy of 47–57%, depending on the model type used.
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Huo, Jingeng, Zhenqin Shi, Wenbo Zhu, Xin Chen, Hua Xue, Ran Ma, and Yanhui Yan. "Delineation of the Development Boundary of the Central District of Zhengzhou, China." Land 11, no. 9 (August 25, 2022): 1393. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11091393.
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An urban development boundary is an effective means to guide urban development and restrain unplanned expansion of urban space. Scientifically-based delineation and control of the boundary can help with sustainable use of land resources and better spatial planning. This study took land use data from 2000, 2010, and 2020 for the central urban area of Zhengzhou and predicted the land use pattern in 2035. We used auto-logistic selection of driving factors, future land use simulation, and system dynamics models to delineate the development boundary of the central urban area. We complemented and optimized the boundary using agricultural and ecological perspectives. The results indicated the following: (1) The ROC values of land driving factors were greater than 0.75 in the regression test, and the Kappa and OA were greater than 0.92 in the accuracy test of land simulation results. (2) The boundary range initially delineated based on morphology was 2319 km2. There was a clear overall development trend of the central urban area to the east and southeast, which included the historical urban area of Zhengzhou and the new government planning area. (3) The optimized boundary of the central district area was 2209 km2, the ecological land control area was 136 km2, and the basic farmland protection area was 54 km2. The Yellow River, the airport, and the western, southern, and eastern areas were already formed. The study concluded that the delineated boundary was in line with the scientific concepts of ‘rigid’ and ‘flexible’ factors, which have positive effects on the protection of arable land resources and ecological land, as well as meeting the needs of urban development. The level of sustainable development of the region was effectively improved.
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Leitão, João P., Maria do Céu Almeida, Nuno E. Simões, and André Martins. "Methodology for qualitative urban flooding risk assessment." Water Science and Technology 68, no. 4 (August 1, 2013): 829–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2013.310.
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Pluvial or surface flooding can cause significant damage and disruption as it often affects highly urbanised areas. Therefore it is essential to accurately identify consequences and assess the risks associated with such phenomena. The aim of this study is to present the results and investigate the applicability of a qualitative flood risk assessment methodology in urban areas. This methodology benefits from recent developments in urban flood modelling, such as the dual-drainage modelling concept, namely one-dimensional automatic overland flow network delineation tools (e.g. AOFD) and 1D/1D models incorporating both surface and sewer drainage systems. To assess flood risk, the consequences can be estimated using hydraulic model results, such as water velocities and water depth results; the likelihood was estimated based on the return period of historical rainfall events. To test the methodology two rainfall events with return periods of 350 and 2 years observed in Alcântara (Lisbon, Portugal) were used and three consequence dimensions were considered: affected public transportation services, affected properties and pedestrian safety. The most affected areas in terms of flooding were easily identified; the presented methodology was shown to be easy to implement and effective to assess flooding risk in urban areas, despite the common difficulties in obtaining data.
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Choudhury, Upasana, Shruti Kanga, Suraj Kumar Singh, Anand Kumar, Gowhar Meraj, Pankaj Kumar, and Saurabh Singh. "Projecting Urban Expansion by Analyzing Growth Patterns and Sustainable Planning Strategies—A Case Study of Kamrup Metropolitan, Assam, North-East India." Earth 5, no. 2 (May 27, 2024): 169–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/earth5020009.
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This research focuses on the urban expansion occurring in the Kamrup Metropolitan District—an area experiencing significant urbanization—with the aim of understanding its patterns and projecting future growth. The research covers the period from 2000 to 2022 and projects growth up to 2052, providing insights for sustainable urban planning. The study utilizes the maximum likelihood method for land use/land cover (LULC) delineation and the Shannon entropy technique for assessing urban sprawl. Additionally, it integrates the cellular automata (CA)-Markov model and the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) for future projections. The results indicate a considerable shift from non-built-up to built-up areas, with the proportion of built-up areas expected to reach 36.2% by 2032 and 40.54% by 2052. These findings emphasize the importance of strategic urban management and sustainable planning. The study recommends adaptive urban planning strategies and highlights the value of integrating the CA Markov model and AHP for policymakers and urban planners. This can contribute to the discourse on sustainable urban development and informed decision-making.
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Liu, Ting, Gang Cheng, and Jie Yang. "Multi-Scale Recursive Identification of Urban Functional Areas Based on Multi-Source Data." Sustainability 15, no. 18 (September 18, 2023): 13870. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su151813870.
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The study of urban functional area identification is of great significance for urban function cognition, spatial planning, and economic development. In the identification of urban functional areas, most studies considered only a single data source and a single division scale, the research results have problems such as low update frequency or incomplete information in a single data set, and overfitting or underfitting in a single spatial resolution. Aiming at the above problems, this paper proposes a multi-scale recursive recognition method based on interactive validation for urban functional areas using taxi trajectory data and point of interest (POI) data as the main data sources. First, the dynamic time warping (DTW) algorithm generates a time series similarity matrix, a CA-RFM model combining the clustering algorithm and random forest model is constructed. The model extracts significant feature regions as inputs through a K-medoid clustering algorithm, which are imported into the random forest model for urban functional zone (UFZ) identification. Then, to overcome the shortcomings of a single scale in expressing urban structural characteristics, a recursive model of different levels of urban road networks is established to classify multi-scale functional areas. Finally, cross-validation using the CA-RFM model and POI quantitative identification method obtains the final identification results of urban functional areas. This paper selects Shenzhen as the study area, the results show that the combination of clustering algorithm and random forest model greatly reduces the error of manual selection of training samples. In addition, the study demonstrates the superiority of the proposed method in two aspects, namely, faster delineation and improved accuracy in urban functional area identification.
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Møller-Jensen, Lasse, Albert N. Allotey, Richard Y. Kofie, and Paul W. K. Yankson. "A Comparison of Satellite-Based Estimates of Urban Agglomeration Size for the Accra Area." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 9, no. 2 (January 30, 2020): 79. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9020079.
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Data on the extension of urban areas are important for analyzing growth dynamics and to support the planning of transport and service provision. Satellite-based remote sensing has proven extremely useful, especially in cities that experience fast spatial growth. Different approaches to satellite-based mapping may, however, produce different results concerning urban categorization and delineation, often making direct comparison misleading. This study analyses four different satellite-based studies of urban land cover in Accra, Ghana and presents a new land cover map based on visual interpretation of segmented Sentinel-2 imagery. The methods and results, as well as the underlying definition of “urban”, are compared and discussed. One method identifies exclusively areas with man-made, impervious surfaces, such as roads and buildings, as proxies for urban extent. Other methods aim to identify a broader set of land cover types, including green spaces, which are treated as part of the mixed urban fabric. Further differences are found in the way urban fringe areas under development are classified depending on their degree of urbanization, and in the distance threshold values used for defining the urban agglomeration. For the most recent maps we identify a difference in the measured size of the Accra agglomeration of almost 100%.
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Yi, Siqi, Yong Zhou, and Qing Li. "A New Perspective for Urban Development Boundary Delineation Based on the MCR Model and CA-Markov Model." Land 11, no. 3 (March 9, 2022): 401. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land11030401.
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In order to control the development of urban space, it is important to explore scientific methods to provide a reference for regional territorial space planning. On the basis of the minimum cumulative resistance (MCR) model and the cellular automaton (CA)-Markov model, we constructed a new technical method for delineating urban development boundaries, exploring the temporal and spatial distribution characteristic of land use in Wuhan from 2010 to 2020 through nighttime and remote sensing images, and simulating the urban development boundaries of Wuhan from 2025 to 2035. The results show that: (1) the scales of Wuhan City’s built-up areas in 2010, 2015, and 2020 were 500 km2, 566.13 km2, and 885.11 km2, respectively, and the trends of expansion run to the east and southeast, and (2) on the basis of the MCR model, the urban development boundary scale of Wuhan City in 2025, 2030, and 2035 from the perspective of actual supply will be 903.52 km2, 937.48 km2, and 1021.44 km2, respectively, and based on the CA-Markov model, the urban development boundary scales of Wuhan City in 2025, 2030, and 2035 from the perspective of ideal land demand will be 912.75 km2, 946.40 km2, and 1041.91 km2, respectively. By combining the results of the two methods, we determined areas of 901.62 km2, 944.39 km2, and 1015.36 km2 as the urban development boundaries of Wuhan City in 2025, 2030, and 2035, respectively. According to the principle of supply–demand balance, the urban development boundary delineated by the integration of the MCR model and CA-Markov model, which is in line with the spatial expansion trend of growing cities, could optimize the urban development pattern; solve the contradiction between urban development, farmland protection, and ecological protection; and provide a methodological reference and decision-making basis for planning practice.
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Campoverde, Carlos, Mila Koeva, Claudio Persello, Konstantin Maslov, Weiqin Jiao, and Dessislava Petrova-Antonova. "Automatic Building Roof Plane Extraction in Urban Environments for 3D City Modelling Using Remote Sensing Data." Remote Sensing 16, no. 8 (April 14, 2024): 1386. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs16081386.
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Delineating and modelling building roof plane structures is an active research direction in urban-related studies, as understanding roof structure provides essential information for generating highly detailed 3D building models. Traditional deep-learning models have been the main focus of most recent research endeavors aiming to extract pixel-based building roof plane areas from remote-sensing imagery. However, significant challenges arise, such as delineating complex roof boundaries and invisible boundaries. Additionally, challenges during the post-processing phase, where pixel-based building roof plane maps are vectorized, often result in polygons with irregular shapes. In order to address this issue, this study explores a state-of-the-art method for planar graph reconstruction applied to building roof plane extraction. We propose a framework for reconstructing regularized building roof plane structures using aerial imagery and cadastral information. Our framework employs a holistic edge classification architecture based on an attention-based neural network to detect corners and edges between them from aerial imagery. Our experiments focused on three distinct study areas characterized by different roof structure topologies: the Stadsveld–‘t Zwering neighborhood and Oude Markt area, located in Enschede, The Netherlands, and the Lozenets district in Sofia, Bulgaria. The outcomes of our experiments revealed that a model trained with a combined dataset of two different study areas demonstrated a superior performance, capable of delineating edges obscured by shadows or canopy. Our experiment in the Oude Markt area resulted in building roof plane delineation with an F-score value of 0.43 when the model trained on the combined dataset was used. In comparison, the model trained only on the Stadsveld–‘t Zwering dataset achieved an F-score value of 0.37, and the model trained only on the Lozenets dataset achieved an F-score value of 0.32. The results from the developed approach are promising and can be used for 3D city modelling in different urban settings.
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Wang, Hong, Xiaotian Yu, Lvyin Luo, and Rong Li. "Urban–Rural Boundary Delineation Based on Population Spatialization: A Case Study of Guizhou Province, China." Sustainability 16, no. 5 (February 22, 2024): 1787. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su16051787.
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Rational delineation of urban–rural boundaries is a foundational prerequisite for holistic urban and rural development planning and rational resource allocation. However, using a single data source for urban–rural boundaries yields non-comprehensive results. To address this problem, the present study proposes a method for extracting urban–rural boundaries using multiple sources such as population data, nighttime light data, land use, and points of interest (POI) data. Considering Guizhou Province for a case study, this study presents a two-step method for identifying urban–rural boundaries. First, the random forest model was combined with the dasymetric mapping method to obtain the province’s population spatialization data with a 30-m resolution. Second, based on the spatialized population, the urban–rural boundary for Guizhou Province in 2020 was extracted using the breaking point method. This method comprehensively integrated the benefits of various data and judiciously extracted the boundaries of the main urban areas and small and medium-sized towns of each city in the study province at the same spatial scale. The stratified random sampling method revealed an average overall accuracy of 88.05%. The proposed method has high universality and application value and can be useful for accurate and practical identification of urban–rural boundaries.
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Han, Jiazheng, Payam Sajadi, Zhenqi Hu, Kaiping Zhou, Shijin Li, Zhanjie Feng, and Francesco Pilla. "Exploration of the Urbanization Process and Its Impact on Vegetation in 125 Resource-Based Cities in China and Comparison with Other Cities." Remote Sensing 16, no. 19 (September 29, 2024): 3640. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs16193640.
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Resource-based cities (RBCs) in China are at a historic juncture in their transformative development. Observing and assessing the role of the resource curse in urban expansion and greening is crucial for the sustainable development of these cities. This study proposes a new framework to extract urban boundary data from 2000 to 2020 in China. Utilizing these data, we analyzed differences in urban expansion intensity and urban vegetation cover between 125 RBCs and 223 non-RBCs. We found the following: (1) While urban areas in China experienced steady growth from 2000 to 2020, the urban area expansion rates of RBCs lagged behind those non-RBCs located in the same geographical areas except in South China, with the lowest annual expansion rate of 1.18% occurring in the Northeast. (2) Although the existing urban areas in some cities show a greening trend, both existing and new urban areas in China are predominantly characterized overall by browning. Surprisingly, RBCs exhibit a stronger greening trend than non-RBCs, particularly in Northwestern China. (3) There is a nuanced interplay and coexistence between resource dependency and urban expansion, with a specific negative correlation when resource dependency is very high or very low. This study provides a novel method and approach for urban boundary delineation. It offers new insights into the developmental characteristics of RBCs, enriching the theoretical framework of resource curse research and supporting the green development of RBCs with robust data.
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Zhang, Yang, Xiaojiang Xia, Jiandong Li, Luge Xing, Chengchao Yang, Haofeng Wang, Xiaoai Dai, and Jue Wang. "Simulation of Urban Growth Boundary under the Guidance of Stock Development: A Case Study of Wuhan City." Land 13, no. 8 (July 30, 2024): 1174. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land13081174.
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The implementation of an urban growth boundary (UGB) can effectively control urban sprawl and promote efficient land use, which is crucial for future urban development. However, most of existing studies overlook the reuse of existing idle and inefficient land within the city in the delineation of UGBs. With China’s urban construction shifting from incremental development to stock development, this study focuses on Wuhan and presents a set of technical approaches for delineating UGBs with a stock development orientation. First, a built-up area composite index (POI&ISA) is constructed based on point of interest (POI) kernel density analysis and impervious surface index extraction to evaluate constructive levels in 2010 and 2020 and identify the urban vitality zone. Then, we combine the current land use status and control policies to divide the urban spatial development potential into five categories: urban vitality land, urban non-vitality land, other vitality land, other non-vitality land, and restricted development land. Finally, the PLUS model is applied in the analysis of the driving forces of land use change in Wuhan, simulating the UGBs in three stages of incremental development (2020–2030), incremental and stock development (2030–2040), and stock development (2040–2050). Finally, the PLUS model simulation projects the UGB areas to be 436.436 km2, 474.617 km2, and 520.396 km2 for the years 2030, 2040, and 2050, respectively. The predicted timespan of urban development extends up to 30 years, serving as a reliable reference for Wuhan’s long-term and near-term planning.
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Vanhatalo, Jaana, and Jenni Partanen. "Exploring the spectrum of urban area key figures using data from Finland and proposing guidelines for delineation of urban areas." Land Use Policy 112 (January 2022): 105822. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2021.105822.
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Freitas, Liliana, Helder I. Chaminé, Maria José Afonso, Helen Meerkhan, Tiago Abreu, José Filinto Trigo, and Alcides J. S. C. Pereira. "Integrative Groundwater Studies in a Small-Scale Urban Area: Case Study from the Municipality of Penafiel (NW Portugal)." Geosciences 10, no. 2 (January 30, 2020): 54. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/geosciences10020054.
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The occurrence of groundwater in urban hard rock areas is mostly controlled by secondary permeability caused by the fracturing degree and weathering grade. Vulnerability GIS-mapping, monitoring, and infiltration/recharge of water resources, and the delineation of the environmental protective background are key issues in evaluating, planning, managing, and decision-making for urban water systems. A small-scale urban area in Penafiel City was used as a case study. Historical and current scenarios were compared using hydrogeological GIS-based modelling. Water sources and potential contamination sources were mapped around the study area. Groundwater is mainly acidic, with a low mineralization and a Cl-Na to Cl-SO4-Na or Cl-Ca to Cl-SO4-Ca hydrogeochemical facies. Considering potential contamination sources, the moderate and the moderate-high classes dominate the area. The combined approach of the vulnerability indexes suggests that most of the area has a low to moderate vulnerability to contamination. The Infiltration Potential Index in urban areas (IPI-urban) indicates the prevalence of a low to moderate infiltration. Groundwater recharge evaluation indicates values < 2.3 mm/year and <60 mm/year for summer and winter scenarios, respectively. Finally, the investigation addresses insights for decision-makers for the appropriate planning and sustainable management of groundwater resources in small-scale urban areas.
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Xu, Zening, Xiaolu Gao, Zhiqiang Wang, and Jie Fan. "Big Data-Based Evaluation of Urban Parks: A Chinese Case Study." Sustainability 11, no. 7 (April 10, 2019): 2125. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11072125.
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Urban parks play a key role in urban sustainable development. This paper proposes a method for the evaluation of public parks from the perspective of accessibility and quality. The method includes the data extraction of urban park locations and the delineation of urban built-up areas. The processing of urban park data not only involves the extraction from digital maps, but also the classification of urban parks using a semi-automated model in ArcGIS. The urban area is identified using the Point of Interest (POI) data in digital maps, taking economic and human activities into consideration. The service area and its overlapped time is included in the evaluation indicators. With a clear definition of park and urban built-up area, the evaluation result of urban parks is of great comparability. Taking China as an example, the quality of urban parks in 273 prefecture-level cities has been evaluated. The results show that the average service coverage of urban parks in Chinese cities is 64.8%, and that there are significant disparities between cities with different population sizes and locations. The results suggest the necessity to improve public parks in small-and-medium sized cities and inland areas to strengthen the coordination of urbanization and regional development.