Urban growth in American cities : glimpses of U.S. urbanization

Abstract

Figure 1a. Landsat 5 TM false-color satellite image of the San Francisco Bay region, 1992.

Determinants of Growth in Multiunit Housing Demand since the Great Recession: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis

“…Multiunit occupancy rate is the highest in the lowest age-class (16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25). It falls sharply for the [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] and again for the 36-45 years age-class. After plateauing over the 36-45, 46-55, and 56-65 years age-classes, multiunit occupancy rate rises relatively modestly for the 66-75 years age-class and again for the 76-85 years age-class.…”

“…After 2010, the combined populations of the largest cities grew at more Till World War I, the inner core of cities captured most of the population growth as migrant workers settled in rental housing near the sites of employment. In subsequent years, rapid growth in automobile ownership, rapid development of highways, and the introduction of long-term home mortgage loans, among other factors, changed the dynamics of urban growth in favor of suburbanization (Baum-Snow [29], Auch et al [30]). Suburban growth has remained the main form of urban growth since.…”

Evaluating metropolitan spatial development: a method for identifying settlement types and depicting growth patterns

“…Many studies have measured and mapped spatial structures and trends in metropolitan areas by measuring population density (e.g., Clark, 1951;Newling, 1969) or land cover types and changes (Auch, Taylor, & Acevedo, 2004;Herold, Goldstein, & Clarke, 2003;Luck & Wu, 2002). Density gradients, also called density-decay models, reveal a picture of density distribution around centres.…”

“…The most common way to measure metropolitan growth is identifying land cover change (Auch et al, 2004;Yuan, Sawaya, Loeffelholz, & Bauer, 2005;Zhou, Troy, & Grove, 2008) because a national dataset is readily available. Since 1992, the US Geological Survey (USGS) has developed a National Land Cover Data-set (NLCD), which extracts important data from observations by Landsat satellites.…”

What is Urban Remote Sensing?

“…Third, environmental scientists are increasingly relying upon remote sensing to derive urban land cover information as a primary boundary condition used in many spatially distributed models (e.g., Lo, Quattrochi and Luvall, 1997;Lo and Quattrochi, 2003;Arthur-Hartranft, Carlson and Clarke, 2003;Carlson, 2004;Stefanov and Netzband, 2005;Hepinstall, Alberti and Marzluff, 2008). Lastly, the global change community has recognized remote sensing as an enabling and acceptable technology to study the spatiotemporal dynamics and consequences of urbanization as a major form of global changes (e.g., Bartlett, Mageean and O'Connor, 2000;Small and Nicholls, 2003;Auch, Taylor and Acededo, 2004;Small, 2005;Turner, Lambin and Reenberg, 2007;Grimm et al, 2008), given the facts that more than half of the global population are now residing in cities (UN-HABITAT, 2010) and urban areas are the home of major global production and manufacture centers (Kaplan, Wheeler and Holloway, 2009).…”