New urban governance: A review of current themes and future priorities

NF Da Cruz, P Rode, M McQuarrie - Journal of Urban Affairs, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This review article explores some of the key concepts, trends, and approaches in
contemporary urban governance research. Based on a horizon scan of recent literature and …

Characterizing the relationship between land use land cover change and land surface temperature

DX Tran, F Pla, P Latorre-Carmona, SW Myint… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Exploring changes in land use land cover (LULC) to understand the urban heat island (UHI)
effect is valuable for both communities and local governments in cities in developing …

Urban land use

G Duranton, D Puga - Handbook of regional and urban economics, 2015 - Elsevier
We provide an integrated treatment of the theoretical literature on urban land use inspired by
the monocentric model, including extensions that deal with multiple endogenous business …

How do east and southeast Asian cities differ from western cities? A systematic review of the urban form characteristics

TL Chen, HW Chiu, YF Lin - Sustainability, 2020 - mdpi.com
The Fifth Assessment Report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC AR5) revealed that the scale of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Asian cities is …

A new urban landscape in East–Southeast Asia, 2000–2010

A Schneider, CM Mertes, AJ Tatem, B Tan… - Environmental …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract East–Southeast Asia is currently one of the fastest urbanizing regions in the world,
with countries such as China climbing from 20 to 50% urbanized in just a few decades. By …

Urban expansion in Ethiopia from 1987 to 2017: Characteristics, spatial patterns, and driving forces

BK Terfa, N Chen, D Liu, X Zhang, D Niyogi - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Rapid urban growth in major cities of a country poses challenges for sustainable
development. Particularly in Africa, the process of rapid urbanization is little understood and …

Measuring environmental awareness: An analysis using google search data

A Dabbous, M Horn, A Croutzet - Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Environmental awareness is usually measured using surveys. This paper aims to offer an
alternative measure: an Environmental Awareness Index (EAI) constructed using Google …

Land transformation of Italy due to half a century of urbanization

B Romano, F Zullo, L Fiorini, A Marucci, S Ciabò - Land use policy, 2017 - Elsevier
The research presented in this paper has analyzed 50 years of urban evolution in Italy and
noted a considerable difference of geographic patterns of settlement growth compared to …

[PDF][PDF] Urban landscape fragmentation as an indicator of urban expansion using sentinel-2 imageries

N Kadhim, NT Ismael, NM Kadhim - Civil Engineering Journal, 2022 - core.ac.uk
Rapid urbanization in some cities has led to the emergence of numerous subsidiary
settlements around their primary cities. Due to this rapid urbanization and growth, there is a …

Comparing cities in developed and developing countries: Population, land area, building height and crowding

R Jedwab, P Loungani, A Yezer - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
Historically, richer countries have had larger cities than poorer countries. Today, urban
giants are no longer concentrated in rich countries. However, there are clear differences in …