Designed to help students understand the multiple levels at which human populations
respond to their surroundings, this essential text offers the most complete discussion of …

Modern urban regions are highly complex entities. Despite the difficulty of modeling every
relevant aspect of an urban region, researchers have produced a rich variety of models …

Driven by advances in technology and societal needs, the next frontier in remote sensing is
urban areas. With the advent of high-resolution imagery and more capable techniques, the …

Ongoing urban expansion may degrade natural resources, ecosystems, and the services
they provide to human societies, eg, through land use and water changes and feedbacks. In …

The present work analyses the management of construction and demolition waste (C&DW)
in urbanization projects from a dual perspective: ecological and economic. A well …

Assessing the economic impacts of urban land use transformation has become complex and
acrimonious. Although community planners are beginning to comprehend the economic …

We connected a cellular, dynamic, spatial urban growth model and a semi-distributed
continuous hydrology model to quantitatively predict streamflow in response to possible …

In this article we attempt to establish the connections between transit ridership and land use
and socio-economic variables, and project future ridership under different scenarios. We …

Planning support systems (PSSs) are intended to facilitate relevant steps in planning
processes; however, the academic evaluation of PSSs reveals many bottlenecks precluding …

Given that evolving urban systems require ever more sophisticated and creative solutions to
deal with uncertainty, designing for resilience in contemporary landscape architecture …