Experiences from urban development plans and assessments of their concrete and tangible results in the past decades indicate lack of adequate success of our urbanization system to responding needs of our citizens. This has resulted in need to find a fundamental solution to transforming the centralized system into decentralized. Recent changes in regard to a change of approach from master plan t...

Bhumi is published by the Town & Country Planning Research Institute of University Moratuwa, Sri Lanka and La Trobe University, Australia.Bhumi serves a wide range subject areas directly indirectly related to Urban Rural Planning, Economics, Development, Governance, Management, Environmental Resource Construction, Housing, Infrastructure, Design, Politics, Technology etc.

Urban environmental elements and planning involve a complex data and phenomenon. It is required to have a better understanding of concerned geographic data to make a decision or plan for the applications like urban planning, infrastructure management, and visibility analysis and tourism promotion. Current practice in any public or private sector planning context at any spatial scale involves be...

Context: The latest generation of satellite-based imaging sensors (Pleiades, Sentinel, etc.) acquires big volumes of Earth’s images with high spatial, spectral and temporal resolution (up to 50cm/pixel, 50 bands, twice per day, covering the full planet!). These data open the door to a large range of important applications, such as the planning of urban environments and the monitoring of natural...

planners have regarded understanding urban use per capita since the beginning of new thinking of urban development. this was stared with its pragmatics toward primary comprehensive urban plans and became a source for urban development plans that have tried to adapt per capita and standards with country’s conditions. iran's supreme council for planning and architecture, determined standards...

In recent years, there is an increasing demand for improving the efficiency and reliability of urban planning in China, due to the inclusive changes of concepts and contents of urban planning and management. The integrated utilisation of remote sensing and GIS technology in improving urban planning was therefore approached by the author and his research group. The basic methodology of this work...

Landscape transformations in the rapidly urbanizing landscape are the most dynamic process altering the local ecology, hydrology and environment. This necessitates understanding of spatial patterns of the growth for an effective urban planning. Remote sensing data acquired at regular intervals through satellite borne sensors enables the synoptic monitoring and visualization of urban growth patt...