This article presents a novel cellular automata (CA) approach to simulate the spatio-
temporal process of urban land-use change based on the simulated annealing (SA) …

Rapid and unorganized urban growth brings about urban sprawl, which leads to the
increase in the number of abandoned lands and brownfields within the cities. Revitalization …

This study is aimed at analyzing urban change within Istanbul and assessing the city's future
growth potential using appropriate approach modeling for the year 2040. Urban growth is a …

Recognized as one of the richest and most extensive savannas in the world, the Cerrado
region, the second largest biome in South America, presents an intense and continuous …

Being the primate city of Bangladesh, higher population growth and inward migration from
rural areas is making Dhaka to experience an unprecedented level of urbanisation. This has …

Urban growth models developed in the second half of the 20th century have allowed for a
better understanding of the dynamics of urban growth. Among these models, cellular …

As one of the four major bay areas in the world, the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater
Bay Area (GBA) is a highly integrated mega urban agglomeration and its unparalleled …

In the urban sprawl paradigm, residential land use exhibits a more significant growth than
other categories. Consequently, large proportions of the natural environment are converted …

The paper presents a computationally efficient meta-modeling approach to spatially explicit
uncertainty and sensitivity analysis in a cellular automata (CA) urban growth and land-use …