Abstract Urban sprawl symptoms are characterized by the phenomenon of expansion urban functional areas into fringe areas. The residential area Bumi Tamalanrea Permai Makassar showed symptoms, where dynamics densification and dualistic region’s growth have exceeded supporting capacity basic availability infrastructure in area. This article was intended to explore processes, activities, analysis ...

Urbanization is arguably the most dramatic form of highly irreversible land transformation. While urbanization is a worldwide phenomenon, it is exceptionally dynamic in India, where unprecedented urban growth rates have occurred over the last 30 years. In this uncontrolled explosive situation city planning lacks of data and information to measure, monitor, understand urban sprawl processes. The...

Title of Document: THE SPATIAL AND SOCIAL DIMENSIONS OF INNOVATION Doan Bao Luu Nguyen, Directed By: Dr. Marie Howland An understanding of how the built urban environment affects innovation will contribute significantly to the current high tech economic development policies across the country. With the employment competition in the globalized economy, city and county governments have identify k...

In last decades the spreading of new buildings, road infrastructures and a scattered proliferation of houses in zones outside urban areas, produced countryside urbanization with no rules, consuming soils and impoverishing the landscape. Such a phenomenon generated a huge environmental impact, diseconomies and a decrease in life quality. Although urban growth is perceived as necessary for a sust...