The research problem addressed in this paper includes the progress of suburbanization selected Polish metropolises. following core question was formulated: when did today’s processes start, and what are migration trends targets population living at dividing line between urban suburban limits Defined as such, study field enabled formulating objective research, which is to present formation new l...

Abstract Rapid unplanned urbanization is always associated with environmental degradation which plays a direct role in the quality of life. Poor linked to premature death, cancer, long-term damage respiratory and cardiovascular systems, etc. Using case study Kolkata Metropolitan Area (KMA), Urban Environmental Quality (UEQ) index has been constructed using geoinformatics platform dimensions phy...

this study examines the relationship between land use/land cover (lulc) changes and surface runoff generation empirically to reveal how urbanization has altered the hydrologic characteristics of a watershed. a hydrological model, the soil and water assessment tool (swat), is employed to estimate the watershed runoff generation for two lulc scenarios from 2002 to 2010. the cypress creek watershe...

Over the last 20 years, suburbanization has gradually turned into a key topic of analysis, whereas welfare policies have faced significant public reconfiguration towards local scale provision and development systems. Combined in such way, these two statements tell us little, they appear to be separate without any relation. This article aims at building analytical research interplays between top...

In this thesis I investigate the relationship between the built environment and the residential segregation of immigrants at the building level. I use micro-data that includes the exact address of all the foreign and native population in Barcelona, combined with geometric indicators for urban shape at the block level. Using these data, I construct measures of segregation over time to evaluate t...

Urban sprawl has been at the center of current debate on urban structure. Compared to the rich literature on urban sprawl in Western cities, relatively little is known about whether Chinese urban expansion is excessive or inefficient. This paper provides an integrated analysis of two seemingly contradictory phenomena in China’s urban development in recent two decades, namely development zones a...

Abstract After remodeling the economies of the Western world all along the 1980s, deindustrialization abruptly hit the former socialist countries in the early 1990s. Deindustrialization with destructuring meant the disintegration of the economic structure and industrial cities, and regions entered a downsizing spiral of population loss after the breakdown of traditional industries, outmigration...

1. The world’s population is increasingly urban, and streams and rivers, as the low lying points of the landscape, are especially sensitive to and profoundly impacted by the changes associated with urbanization and suburbanization of catchments. 2. River restoration is an increasingly popular management strategy for improving the physical and ecological conditions of degraded urban streams. In ...

In the early 1980s, suburbanization and periurbanization processes became widespread in major cities within Spain. An interesting stage of returning to city centers commenced that materialized in the start of rehabilitation policies within historic centers. These processes coincided with weak population growth, an acute industrial economic crisis, and new democratic policies in municipal counci...