Detecting and modelling spatial patterns of urban sprawl in highly fragmented areas: A case study in the Flanders–Brussels region

Poelmans, Lien; Rompaey, Anton Van

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2009.05.018

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“…In general, slope and elevation are acknowledged as the most important topographic factors that affect urban growth (Braimoh & Onishi, 2007;Reilly, O'Mara, & Seto, 2009;Ye, Zhang, Liu, & Wu, 2013). For socioeconomic factors, proximity factors such as distance to road (Luo & Wei, 2009;Müller et al, 2010;Poelmans & Rompaey, 2009), distance to socioeconomic center (Vermeiren, Rompaey, Loopmans, Serwajja, & Mukwaya, 2012) and distance to water (Cheng & Masser, 2003;Luo & Wei, 2009) are crucial influential factors that determine urban growth. Roads and socioeconomic centers always play a significant role in urbanization as they provide residents higher accessibility to daily needs and resources.…”

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Spatio-temporal urban growth dynamics of Lagos Metropolitan Region of Nigeria based on Hybrid methods for LULC modeling and prediction

Wang

Maduako

2018

European Journal of Remote Sensing

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An accurate information on the amount and location of Land use and land cover (LULC) changes is necessary to develop and implement a sustainable-urban planning.This research investigates the potential of an integrated Multi-Layer Perceptron and Markov Chain Analysis (MLP-MCA) to map and accurately predict the future LULC change scenarios in Lagos Metropolitan Region of Nigeria. Multi-temporal LULC datasets derived from remotely sensed Landsat images from 1984, 2000 and 2015 were used for modeling, validation and prediction. Predicted LULC changes for 2030 and 2050 were performed based on the LULC map of 2015 using MLP-MCA method. The result reveals a significant expansion of built-up areas during the whole study period. Analysis of LULC distribution in Lagos metropolitan region shows that about 50% of urban land expansion happened beyond the administrative boundary of Lagos State during the period of 2000-2015. It is predicted that more than 75% of future urban growth will occur across the border of Lagos State, in the neighbouring Ogun State by 2050. These results imply that a strong and consistent collaboration between different states is crucial to establish an effective regional planning framework and ensure a proper planned growth of the metropolitan region.ARTICLE HISTORY

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Spatio-temporal urban growth dynamics of Lagos Metropolitan Region of Nigeria based on Hybrid methods for LULC modeling and prediction

Wang

Maduako

2018

European Journal of Remote Sensing

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“…The measures can be further mobilized for monitoring the impact of land use and urban policies in the long term. They also enable comparisons between different cities or urban regions (Arribas--Bel & al., 2011;Bhatta & al., 2010;Herold & al., 2002;Huang & al., 2007;Kasanko & al., 2006;Poelmans & Van Rompaey, 2009;Schneider & Woodcock, 2008;Schwarz, 2010). Comparisons are commonly used to classify cities and their suburban areas according to criteria such as density, built--up areas, amount of land taken over by urban sprawl etc.…”

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“…A first level of analysis consists of distinguishing built--up and non--built land (Poelmans & Van Rompaey, 2009). Other studies have integrated more data in order to reach a finer classification system.…”

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Characterising the Morphology of Suburban Settlements: A Method Based on a Semi-automatic Classification of Building Clusters

Smet

Teller

2015

Landscape Research

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Urban sprawl is transforming our landscapes and rural areas at a spectacular pace.Measuring the strength of the phenomenon and proposing dynamic ways to delineate suburban areas have been the object of much debate amongst scientists. The present article takes the view that, beyond measuring and delineating suburban areas, more efforts should be directed to qualifying the morphology of built settlements within these areas. Therefore it proposes a method based on a semi--automatic classification system of building clusters, designed to describe and interpret the phenomenon from a morphological perspective. This method is based on a combination of field surveys with numerical analyses of digital land cadastre maps. The application of this classification system to the suburban area around Liege reveals that, far from developing in a complete indifference of local conditions, contemporary suburban settlements are influenced by landscape structures inherited from the past.

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“…Today, more than 80% of the European population lives in cities, which has led to a spatial expansion of cities that is four times greater than the expansion of the population (Poelmans & Van Rompaey 2009, Prokop et al 2011, Tobias 2013. These processes are changing the urban landscape pattern, as can be seen in the homogenisation of the landscape structure (a dramatic expansion of built-up areas and sealed soil - Zonneveld 1995, Rudnick et al 2012) and the functional disintegration of urban landscapes (Antrop & Van Eetvelde 2000).…”

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The concept of green infrastructure and urban landscape planning: a challenge for urban forestry planning in Belgrade, Serbia

Vasiljevic¹,

Radić²,

Gavrilović³

et al. 2018

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The beginning of the 21 st century has witnessed a growth in our understanding of the importance of planning urban landscapes in the context of urban population growth and unpredictable climatic conditions. In the search for responses to the challenges set by the development of contemporary urban landscapes, researchers have offered solutions based on the concept of sustainable and resilient cities, whose spatial development would be based on an interdisciplinary approach to strategy development: biodiversity, urban ecological networks and connectivity, multifunctionality and modularity. Although the concepts of a green infrastructure, in their spatial and functional dimensions, allow the application of such strategies, there are still problems when it comes to implementation and measuring the results achieved. At the same time, there is a growing discussion of the important role played by urban forestry in the context of the collaborative planning of urban landscapes and the application of the ideas of a green infrastructure. The key question is: what are the modalities of application of the concept of green infrastructure in the process of planning the development of the modern city and how can the resulting benefits be evaluated? With the modalities of application of the concept of green infrastructure in mind, we discuss its multi-scale and multifunctional dimensions as applied in the case of Serbia. The realisation of the green infrastructure concept is presented through the example of the Urban Forest Management Plan for the City of Belgrade -Mladenovac Municipality. The results of using the spatial-ecological approach in creating the plan and establishing connectivity as a new aim in forest management planning show that the implementation of the green infrastructure concept, and the achieved multifunctional ecosystem values, can be presented on the basis of the parameters of landscape metrics. In light of the new urban world, future research should focus on the application of the landscape ecological approach of the green infrastructure concept in collaborative planning at the urban landscape scale, which allows the creation of ecosystem services and benefits to human wellbeing.

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Detecting and modelling spatial patterns of urban sprawl in highly fragmented areas: A case study in the Flanders–Brussels region

Cited by 220 publications

References 40 publications

Spatio-temporal urban growth dynamics of Lagos Metropolitan Region of Nigeria based on Hybrid methods for LULC modeling and prediction

Spatio-temporal urban growth dynamics of Lagos Metropolitan Region of Nigeria based on Hybrid methods for LULC modeling and prediction

Characterising the Morphology of Suburban Settlements: A Method Based on a Semi-automatic Classification of Building Clusters

The concept of green infrastructure and urban landscape planning: a challenge for urban forestry planning in Belgrade, Serbia

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