Site Suitability Analysis for Urban Development Using GIS Based Multicriteria Evaluation Technique

Kumar, Manish; Shaikh, Vasim Riyasat

doi:10.1007/s12524-012-0221-8

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“…Further this method is also an ordered approach that can be used for compound cases and can normally be identified by using driven knowledge and driven data. At same time the weights of factors can also be calculated by using export opinion that have significant knowledge in the field of urban growth, environment and importance of open spaces and can be determined by using pairwise compression method to evaluate their relative importance vies-versa on another (Javadian et al 2011, Kumar and Shaikh 2013). Scale for the pairwise comparisons, based on judgment are expressed by a degree of preference as describe by equally preferred = 1, moderately preferred=3, strongly preferred=5 very strongly preferred=7 and extremely preferred=9.…”

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Green space suitability evaluation for urban resilience: an analysis of Kathmandu Metropolitan city, Nepal

Pokhrel¹

2019

Environ. Res. Commun.

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Unplanned urbanization, demographic and environmental changes have forced many cities into more uncertainty and risk, challenging economic, social, and environmental sustainability. In this context nurturing resilience in the face of various uncertainties of environmental, socioeconomic and other sociopolitical risk is an urgent matter. Resilience has become an important goal for many cities throughout the world leading to the enhancement of urban ecology and maintenance of essential ecosystem goods and services to make sure the sustainable future for all. The Kathmandu metropolitan city is one of the fastestgrowing capital cities with recent and frequent evidence of unplanned development, loss of green space, tragic events of an earthquake, flood and other environmental problems causing devastation, economic damages, and loss of human life/health, and habitats. In this background, the paper evaluates suitable sites for urban green space development using the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) based multi-criteria analysis methods with geographical information system (GIS).Variables taken for this study are school point data, health facility's location data, emergency service's locations, water bodies, emergency road network data, recent land use/land cover data, population data, existing park, and slope. The unit of a study is a metropolitan city. Our evaluations demonstrate the spatial distribution of different not suitable areas, less suitable, moderate suitable, and highly suitable area respectively, of the 4.47%, 7.19% of the area are high and moderate suitable area, while the largest area 78.87% is less suitable and 9.47% are not suitable for the development of green open space. The result indicates human occupancy is everywhere and per capita, open green space in the city is very below the global average. The local government must think about different modality for development of green open space in collaboration with other government agency occupying more open space or engagement with private sectors. This finding could contribute a planner for spatial planning of green space development in a Metropolitan City.

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“…So for this study distance from the main and emergency road was considered as important accessibility criteria. An earlier study carried out by (Yang et al 2008, Kumar andShaikh 2013), considered accessibility as an important factor for suitability evaluation/analysis'.…”

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Green space suitability evaluation for urban resilience: an analysis of Kathmandu Metropolitan city, Nepal

Pokhrel¹

2019

Environ. Res. Commun.

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“…Visualization of existing facilities along with surroundings, database management, and geospatial analysis capabilities on a single platform can help in identifying the effective locations the proposed facilities by using GIS. Kumar and Biswas [18] also suggested that GIS-based evaluation being simple and flexible can be used to analyze the potential sites for identifying the facility location in a hilly region.…”

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“…The process of identifying a proper location for a infrastructure facility is an important issue [4]. It requires a full consideration of topography of a region [5].…”

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Gis in Assessing Topographical Aspects of Hilly Regions

Kumar¹

2014

IJRET

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“…It has been applied in a variety of areas, ranging from defining suitable land or habitant for animal and plant species (Pereira and Duckstein, 1993;Store and Kangas, 2001), assessing land suitability for agriculture (Akinci et al, 2013;Feizizadeh and Blaschke, 2012), to landscape evaluation and planning (Girvetz et al, 2008;Kienast et al, 2012) and regional planning and environmental impact assessment (Marull et al, 2007;Steiner et al, 2000). With regard to urban development, various approaches have been developed to evaluate a suite of land suitability attributes, where the most common approaches are the GIS based Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) and the expert-led Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach (Chandio et al, 2011;Dong et al, 2008;Jain and Subbaiah, 2007;Kumar and Shaikh, 2012;Liu et al, 2014;Malczewski, 2006;Youssef et al, 2010). More recently, new methods such as spatially-explicit sensitivity analysis (Xu and Zhang, 2013) and BackPropagation (BP) Neural Network method (Xu et al, 2011) have been applied to validate and calibrate the Multi-Criteria Decision-Making (MCDM) techniques in order to evaluate land suitability for urban development.…”

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An Entire-Array-Polygon (EAP) Method to Assess Urban Development Suitability

Cheng¹,

Liu²

2016

American Journal of Environmental Sciences

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China has been experiencing rapid urbanization since the economic reforms and open-up in the late 1970s, with the expansion and restructuring of existing cities taking place at an unprecedented pace, as well as the emergence of many new cities. However, it remains a challenge for urban planners and decision-makers to identify and assess the suitability of areas for future urban development. Building on previous studies, this paper presents a novel approach using an Entire-Array-Polygon (EAP) method to assess the urban development suitability in the fast developing city-region in China. A suitability indicator system was developed to reflect the environmental and economic conditions as well as the living conditions of residents. A major advantage of the EAP model is that it does not rely on the assignment of weight ages for different indicators. Instead, all factors are mapped against one standardised platform. An application of the EAP model in Ezhou, a medium-scale city adjacent to the provincial capital city of Wuhan in Hubei Province, China, over a 15-year period (1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012) shows a differentiated suitability evolution for urban development in its three districts, Echeng, Huarong and Liangzihu. While Echeng remains most suitable for urban development, its development suitability decreased sharply from 1998 to 2009, indicating limited space for further growth. In contrast, the suitability in Huarong increased significantly attributed to rapid development of Gedian Economic and Technological Development Zone, while Liangzihu district experienced marginal increase in urban development suitability due to limited land space as well as the conservation of the Liangzi Lake. Our application demonstrates that the EAP method is effective in assisting planners to assess urban development suitability and identify potentials for future development.

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Site Suitability Analysis for Urban Development Using GIS Based Multicriteria Evaluation Technique

Cited by 74 publications

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Green space suitability evaluation for urban resilience: an analysis of Kathmandu Metropolitan city, Nepal

Green space suitability evaluation for urban resilience: an analysis of Kathmandu Metropolitan city, Nepal

Gis in Assessing Topographical Aspects of Hilly Regions

An Entire-Array-Polygon (EAP) Method to Assess Urban Development Suitability

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