In France, in the peri-urban context, urban sprawl dynamics are particularly strong with huge population growth as well as a land crisis. The increase and spreading of built-up areas from the city centre towards the periphery takes place to the detriment of natural and agricultural spaces. The conversion of land with agricultural potential is all the more worrying as it is usually irreversible....

In the context of rapid urbanization, inefficient, disorderly, and low-density urban sprawl often leads to resource waste ecological damage. Over decades, many studies on measurement, analysis, governance have emerged. However, existing approaches lack in-depth research distinguishing effective expansion from inefficient sprawl. Given limit land use resources demand for development, an accurate...

Cities the world over are highly fragmented. The fragmentation of the built-up area cities by the open spaces interpenetrating them is a key attribute of urban-sprawl, and sprawl as fragmentation, as distinct from sprawl as lower-density development, is now a universal feature of cities. Using satellite images and census data for 1990 and 2000 for a global sample of 120 cities, we find that cit...

The extension of urban perimeter markedly cuts available productive land. Hence, studies in urban sprawl analysis and modeling play an important role to ensure sustainable urban development. The urbanization pattern of the Greater Asmara Area (GAA), the capital of Eritrea, was studied. Satellite images and geospatial tools were employed to analyze the spatiotemporal urban landuse changes. Objec...

(ISTC/BES/TVR/148) for financial assistance to carry out field investigations, National Remote Sensing Agency (NRSA), Hyderabad and Global Land Cover Facility of the NASA and University of Maryland, USA, for providing the requisite satellite data for the study. III Abstract Simulations using the CA technique in geo-spatial modelling have been attempted in the recent times. However it is seen th...

This paper looks at the impact of high technology employment concentrations on urban sprawl. A methodology for translating spatial employment patterns, into place of residence patterns, is presented. On this basis, the consumption of land at the urban fringe due to both residential and nonresidential uses, is estimated. The method is tested empirically using data relating to the two main outer ...

Understanding demographic and migrational patterns constitutes a great challenge. Millions of individual decisions, motivated by economic, political, demographic, rational and/or emotional reasons underlie the high complexity of demographic dynamics. Significant advances in quantitatively understanding such complexity have been registered in recent years, as those involving the growth of cities...