Mobility, transport and land use patterns in urban areas are closely bound up with each other [1]. Urban form plays an important role when households and businesses make mobility decisions, and to a considerable degree dictates transport mode choice. Compact city form with high density and mixed use provide good preconditions for short trips and efficient public transportation, promote walking ...

In densely populated urban environments, the distribution of microbes and the drivers of microbial community assemblages are not well understood. In sprawling metropolitan habitats, the "urban microbiome" may represent a mix of human-associated and environmental taxa. Here we carried out a baseline study of automated teller machine (ATM) keypads in New York City (NYC). Our goal was to describe ...

Transport development is widely recognized as one of the major drivers in shaping urban forms. While recent literature has documented expansion effect transport networks between cities, little known about within larger metropolitan areas. This study aims to find causal relationships highway and two different aspects development: sprawl Jakarta Metropolitan Area (JMA). To obtain effect, we emplo...

Urban fringe is an active expanding belt, indicating urban-rural interaction processes. Previous studies have attempted to define urban as the transitional area between and rural areas, but there a lack of quantitative analysis periphery boundaries. We developed novel, Spatial Segmentation Model (SSM), detect extent via calculating share built-up land. Within fringe, we statistically compared n...

Shrinking cities are a class of that show different trajectories in the urbanization process. Although many studies have examined shrinking from multi-dimensional perspectives, spatiotemporal evolution land use structure is still poorly understood. This study constructed an analysis framework for characteristics over two 10-year periods based on 334 county-level administrative units context nor...

Catering services are an essential part of urban life. The spatial structure and evolution catering can reflect the characteristics to a certain extent. In this study, we selected main area Chongqing, typical mountainous city, as research area. According data sources for 200,000 POI points in 2015 2020, extracted hotspots according service grade based on kernel density. We quantitatively analyz...

Baldwin et al. (2007 [this issue]) raise a number of concerns about our efforts to discern the independent effects of human activity levels and distributions on biodiversity (Brown & Laband 2006). Their central point of contention seems to be that we failed to acknowledge properly in our work that “land-use change due to sprawl is a leading threat to biological diversity in the United States.” ...

This paper suggests a cause of low density in urban development or urban sprawl that has not been given much attention in the literature. There have been a number of arguments put forward for market failures that may account for urban sprawl, including incomplete pricing of infrstructure, environmental externalities, and unpriced congestion. The problem analyzed here is that urban growth create...