The integration of food-energy-water (FEW) sectors is essential for addressing the co-
evolution of urban infrastructure systems during urban growth. But how these evolutionary …

“Smart city”,“sustainable city”,“ubiquitous city”,“smart sustainable city”,“eco-
city”,“regenerative city” are fuzzy concepts; they are established to mitigate the negative …

Currently our world is facing a migration process of a huge dimension–from rural to urban
areas. In 1975 37.7% of the global population were urban dwellers, 1990 already 43 …

Digital land use data, generally derived by remote sensing operations, have become widely
available for even the most remote areas of the globe. Here we investigate how to use land …

Urban sprawls are transition zones with indefinite borders between rural and urban areas.
Many factors cause to the urban sprawl such as population increase, socio-economic …

This research paper investigates urban sprawl in Thiruvananthapuram Urban
Agglomeration (UA) and attempts to delineate Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) for promoting …

Rapid urbanization and urban growth, particularly in the developing worlds, is continuing to
be one of the crucial issues of global change in the 21st century affecting the physical …

Rapid and unplanned urban growth has adverse environmental and social consequences.
This is prominent in sub-Saharan Africa where the urbanisation rate is high and …

Indian cities, like several other developing cities around the world, are urbanizing at an
alarming rate. This unprecedented and uncontrolled urbanization may result in urban …

The mass accumulation of population in the larger cities of India has led to accelerated and
unprecedented peripheral urban expansion over the last few decades. This rapid peripheral …