Traditionally, urban analysis has been quick to adopt and benefit from developments in
technology (eg, microcomputer, GIS) and techniques (eg, statistics, mathematical …

This book provides a comprehensive discussion on urban growth and sprawl, and how they
can be analyzed using remote sensing imageries. It compiles views of numerous …

Urban planning is one of the main applications of GIS. Urban planners use GIS both as a
spatial database and as an analysis and modelling tool. The applications of GIS vary …

Urbanisation induced land use and a land cover change is a proliferating phenomenon
worldwide. The impacts of chaotic urban growth are all well documented. To overcome the ill …

Problem: Given that geographic information system (GIS) technology is evolving and
becoming integrated with allied technologies, how should planners understand and use it to …

Geographic information systems have the potential to aid planning functions in both data
processing and decision making. Because the incorporation of GIS technology into local …

The diffusion of GIS within North American planning has occurred at a remarkable rate.
Growing awareness, institutional acceptance, falling system costs and product diversity have …

Tidal inundation by high tide under enhanced land subsidence is a damaging phenomenon
and a major threat to the Semarang urban area in Indonesia. It impacts on economic …

Geographic information systems have finally arrived in state and local governments and,
with them, an extraordinary opportunity for planning. Many groups with differing agendas are …

In the past 10 years, geographic information systems (GIS) have been widely used in urban
and regional planning in the developed countries in Australia, North America and Europe …