Rapid urbanisation causes large urban conversions of natural and agricultural land to non-
agricultural use. Research on urban expansion has typically disregarded gradient …

Extended suburbanization is a common planning challenge in growing cities and regions.
Evaluating potential areas for denser use before the region expands on the urban fringe …

An ideal form of smart city planning would focus on the availability of urban amenities that
can meet the basic needs of a resident's material life, civil connections, and humanistic spirit …

Although a large body of research has advanced our understanding of the definition,
characteristics, and domains of smart cities at a high level of abstraction, relatively little …

In the Urban Informatics session of the Computational Urban Planning and Urban
Management (CUPUM 2019) conference (where we started the idea of this special issue) …

Accounting for tourists' various needs, preferences, and behavioral patterns is critical for
improved smart tourism planning. This paper presents a novel approach that integrates …

Climate change poses a threat to cities. Geospatial information and communication
technology (Geo-ICT) assisted planning is increasingly being utilised to foster urban …

Temporal land use<? index value=" land use"?> and land cover<? index value=" land
cover"?>(LULC) information of a landscape provide an overview of the drivers of change …

Adopting and enforcing redundancy, diversity, robustness, and integration principles are
required to create spatially resilient cities. However, no studies have demonstrated their …

This paper responds to the critical need for advanced decision-making tools in regional land
use planning by developing an interdisciplinary spatial scenario planning framework based …