Integrating spatial optimization and cellular automata for evaluating urban change
Australia ; Decision ; Geographical information system ; Optimization ; Queensland ; Spatial allocation ; Urban area ; Urban change ; Urban development ; Urban planning
An optimisation based approach is developed for evaluating growth and change based upon spatial restrictions and impact thresholds. The spatial optimisation model is integrated with a cellular automata growth simulation process. Application results
are presented and discussed with respect to possible growth scenarios in south east Queensland, Australia.
The paper summarizes the different underlying mechanisms which produce mega-city growth (incl. high natural increase of population and rural to urban migration generated by rural overpopulation and deprivation) and the crisis in mega-city governance
, the desintegration of urban society and ecological conflicts. The paper ends by formulating future scenarios. - (AM)
Engines of Growth beyond Metropolitan Areas - Success Factors and Recommendations for Action to Support Development
Metropolitan area ; Region ; Sustainable development ; Theory ; Urban area
The article deals with the development (viewed from a structure-analysis perspective), the determinants and factors behind the success of regional growth engines, the factors responsible for the success of growth engines beyond metropolitan areas
Spatial-temporal changes of Tianjin urban spatial morphology from 1978 to 2004
China ; Fractals ; Population growth ; Tianjin ; Town ; Urban development ; Urbangrowth ; Urban morphology
Taken fractal dimension, compact ratio, urban centroid and urban principal axis as the urban spatial characteristic indices, Tianjin city's urban area is investigated in the last 26 years in a quantitative perspective, and its traits and changes
Characteristics of provincial population urbanization and its correlated factors
China ; Demographic change ; Economic development ; Economic structure ; Regional disparities ; Urban development ; Urbangrowth ; Urban population ; Urbanization
Beginning with an introduction to the fundamental theories of population urbanization, this paper discusses the basic characteristics of provincial urban population changes in the People's Republic of China since her foundation in 1949, and analyzes
the correlated factors of its urbanization process.
Two growing urban regions : a comparison of growth patterns and growth management strategies in the Helsinki region and the Brisbane region
Administration ; Australia ; Brisbane ; Comparative study ; Decision making process ; Demographic change ; Finland ; Helsinki ; Queensland ; Town ; Urban administration ; Urban development ; Urbangrowth ; Urban region
This paper considers how debates around urban adaptation and growth management are structured in the discourses of local government, private developers and other actors in Queensland, Australia. The analysis highlights the discursive strategies
employed by different actors and the way their arguments have been consolidated in the practices of urban policy-making. It suggests a divergence of growth and adaptation storylines, contributing to maintaining the gap between these policy agendas. Progress
The political economy of place at the post-socialist urban periphery : governing growth on the edge of Moscow
Economic transition ; Edge city ; European part of Russia ; Moscow ; Outer conurbation area ; Post-communism ; Urbangrowth ; Urban planning ; Urban region ; Urbanization
-socialist urbanisation and more specific aspects of local growth and placemaking. Recent development includes elements that resemble those apparent in edge cities and even appear to be promoted by a post-socialist variety of growth machine politics
Modelling urbangrowth patterns : a multiscale perspective
China ; Geographical information system ; Hubei ; Land use ; Self-organizing behaviour ; Urban area ; Urban density ; Urban development ; Urbangrowth ; Urban model ; Wuhan
: probability of change, density of change and intensity of change. The multiscale analysis seeks to distinguish spatial determinants on each of the three scales, which are able to provide deeper insights into urbangrowth patterns shaped by spontaneous and self