Bogotá and the 17 neighboring municipalities make up one of the biggest metropolitan
areas in Latin America. However, despite strong functional interactions within the area, there …

This paper presents an urban land-use simulation model using cellular automata (CA). In
the model urban growth is regarded as the result of a global process underpinned by local …

An increasing number of models for predicting land use change in rapidly urbanizing
regions are being proposed and built using ideas from cellular automata (CA). Calibrating …

This paper discusses how and where technologies supporting decision-making can play, or
are already playing, a role in both urban development and land management. The review …

The effective and efficient planning of rural land-use changes and their impact on the
environment is critical for land-use managers. Many land-use growth models have been …

In recent decades, the cellular automata model, among the urban development prediction
models, has been applied considerably. Studies show that the output of conventional …

Shortage of land for waste disposal is a serious and growing potential problem in most large
urban regions. However, no practical studies have been reported in the literature that …

The majority of celullar automata (CA) based models developed to simulate land use
changes or urban growth employed a raster representation of the space which reduces …

In recent decades, cellular automata (CA) have become popular for evaluating and
forecasting urban transformation over time and space, especially in rapidly developing …

Urban development is a process that becomes increasingly complex as the city evolves and
in which unexpected events can happen which may alter the envisaged trend over time. To …