The restless (re)formation of urban landscapes in Europe and North America since the mid-1970s has been the subject of extensive documentation and competing interpretations (Harvey, 1985; 1989a; Knox, 1993; Scott, 1988; 2001; Soja, 2000). By comparison, relatively little is understood about the dynamics of urban transformation on the other side of the Asia-Pacific where, despite its `distant' l...

Urban planning exerts influences on environmental, social and economic system related with the city. Processes of land transformation and city growth determine radical changes in urban landscape morphology and as a consequence they affect air temperature and energy exchange. The urbanization can bear on local climate more intensively than the global warming does. This is due to the rapidity of ...

Sosyal, ekonomik ve kültürel açıdan çöküntü alanlarını kaliteli mekânlara dönüştürmek, terk edilen bölgeleri yeniden kente kazandırmak amacıyla kentsel dönüşüm projeleri başlamıştır. Dünya’daki uygulamalarında mevcut dokunun korunduğu, iyileştirildiği yerel halkın fikirlerinin alındığı katılımcı planlama örnekleri bulunmaktadır. Türkiye’deki ise yıkılarak inşa edildiği, alt sosyal grubun yaşam ...

Temporal urban mapping develops a historical perspective of urban development by combining a variety of data sources into an integrated, multi-scale, and multi-resolution database. Temporal map and databases can be used to document human-induced land transformations in Dhaka Metropolitan Area (DMA), where the human induced land transformation rate is very high. Two main features – Arial expansi...