Sustainable development and urban resilience are dominant urban planning paradigms that
have become buzzwords in urban planning and policy domains over the past 2–3 decades …

Abstract Information and communication technology (ICT) can play an important role in
shaping and modifying the urban spatial structure through its effects on the elements and …

This paper analyzes land use change, urbanization and their impact on the change in
landscape pattern in Tabriz metropolitan area (TMA) during the time period from 1996 to …

This research investigates the relationship between COVID-19 and urban factors in Tokyo.
To understand the spread dynamics of COVID-19, the study examined 53 urban variables …

Planning policies are important drivers of spatial evolution in Chinese metropolitan areas;
however, research on the impact of planning policy implementation on the spatial evolution …

This paper examines transformative resilience as the common challenge for urban/regional
governance and planning systems in two contrasting contexts from the Global North …

Polycentric metropolitan regions are a high-level urbanization form characterized with
dynamic layout, fuzzy boundary and various human activity performances. Owing to the …

In the last decades, there have been many articles on the spatial structure of metropolitan
areas, but a study for explaining driving factors of changes in the spatial structure of …

Quantifying the relationship between land use change and landscape pattern (LP) is crucial
in responding global challenges such as climate change, food security, and even …

Human activities have caused spatiotemporal patterns of land use and land cover (LULC)
change. The LULC change has directly affected habitat quality (HQ) and ecosystem …