Different conflicting objectives are used in urban land use optimization problems. The maximization of social benefit is one the important Many researchers have different methods to measure benefits optimization. Studies show that there no established method allocation game. Against this background, study aims (a) identify appropriate indicators as a benefit, and (b) propose composite index Bas...

A recent article in this journal by E. Chuvieco demonstrated the potential of integrating optimization methods (speci® cally, linear programming) with geographical information systems (GIS) through the use of a small example in land-use planning. The bene® ts attainable from the combined use of these technologies are, in our opinion, beyond question. However, several misconceptions regarding th...

Predicting land use change is an indispensable aspect in identifying the best development and management of land resources and their potential. This study used certified land-use maps of 1997, 2006, and 2015 combined with ancillary data such as road networks, water bodies and slopes, obtained from the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Surveying and Mapping in Malaysia, respectivel...

creating and preserving large patches in land use configuration and satisfying compactness and contiguity in land use configuration are nature-prescribed and nature-inspired criteria that can be used in land use planning better that before. accompanying compactness and contiguity as the important landscape metrics in land use planning and land use configuration is close to applying proactive ap...

extended abstract introduction school of modernism started between 1920 until 1930 in both sides of atlantic ocean. however, one can see its signs in the first movements in planning about the garden city ideas. the idea of modernism happened at the same time in architecture and this paradigm was dominant until late 1960. in twentieth century, the limitations of natural resources were understoo...

a study was conducted to determine suitable soil properties as soil quality indicators, using factor analysis in order to evaluate the effects of land use change on loessial hillslope soils of the shastkola district in golestan province, northern iran. to this end, forty surface soil (0-30 cm) samples were collected from four adjacent sites with the following land uses systems: (1) natural fore...