Survey methodologies of urban land uses: An oddment of the past, or a gap in contemporary planning theory?

Urban Land Use Survey Methods: A Discussion on Their Evolution

“…In addition, it is surprising to note that recent technological advancements had little impact on the survey methods of urban land uses for town planning purposes, although GIS has provided insightful tools for the spatial analysis of urban uses and urban land uses [91], while its integration with remote sensing has reshaped the methods for the survey of land cover [92,93]. Specifically, the blooming technology in remote sensing and GIS, including the increased availability of accurate and comprehensive spatial data from various geo-platforms and the rapid development of hardware technology (in mobile devices, in unmanned aerial vehicles, and in satellite constellations), did not influence the field [6]. Though, a number of general-purpose field-mapping applications have been recently developed (e.g., ArcGIS Collector, Mapit Spatial, QField), which increase the convenience of the surveyor and ensure GIS interoperability, they have not contributed to the further development of the methodological part of the survey.…”

“…First, because contemporary planning practice is mainly based on land use planning [7][8][9][10][11], and this was more or less the case throughout the last century [11]. In other words, established practices and frame- The stimulus for this literature review was a recent paper, which revealed that contemporary planning literature does not provide a comprehensive list of the available methods for the survey of urban land uses [6]. In search of the reasons for this omission, the author of this publication explored three possible explanations: (a) survey methods of urban land uses are already well-developed and there is no room for further development, (b) the analysis and planning of urban space no longer requires land use surveys, and (c) remote sensing and crowdsourced geo-platforms can provide a clear picture of the distribution and patterns of urban land use in space, eliminating the need for field surveys.…”

Natural language processing for urban research: A systematic review

“…Looking back into the history of urban planning, collecting information concerning land use functions is a critical step before laying out urban plans ( Breheny and Batey, 1981 ). Traditional approaches to examine structures and changes in urban land use include analyzing aerial photographs ( Philipson, 1997 ), field survey ( Pissourios, 2019 ), and remote sensing ( Bowden, 1975 ).…”

Does building development in Dhaka comply with land use zoning? An analysis using nighttime light and digital building heights

“…Thus, the extraction of building information such as land use function and building height play a decisive role in city planning, development, and management (Scholten & Stillwell, 2013). These types of quantitative building information can be successfully employed in land use zoning (Fischel, 2000;Pissourios, 2019), disaster mitigation planning (Okada & Takai, 2000), energy consumption modeling (Heiple & Sailor, 2008), urban expansion monitoring (Artmann et al, 2019;Ahmad et al, 2016), land use change modeling (DasGupta et al, 2019;Elmqvist et al, 2018), heat mitigation strategies (Shih et al, 2020), disaster mitigation (Hiroi et al, 2015;Okada & Takai, 2000) , provision of shelter (Ahmad, 2015), formulation of environmental pollution reduction policies (Kuzmichev & Loboyko, 2016;Mustafizur et al, 2019), monitoring of urban emissions (Adhary Arbain et al, 2019), urban morphology study (Milojevic-Dupont et al, 2020) and ecosystem services (Inostroza & Barrera, 2019;Spyra et al, 2019;Gadda & Gasparatos, 2009). Multiple and complex trade-offs caused by urban land use changes can positively or negatively influence an urban area's contribution toward Sustainable Development Goals (Avtar, Aggarwal, et al, 2020;Dolley et al, 2020).…”