Arid regions tend to form compact urban patterns that have significant implications on urban growth and future urban patterns. Spatial simulation and projection using cellular automata (CA)-based ...
Weather extremes, such as heatwaves and torrential rainfalls, are becoming more frequent and more intense across the United States under climate change. In late September of this year, flash-flooding ...
The development pattern of cities in historical periods is of great help in helping us understand the process of urban development in modern society 1. The pattern of modern urban development has a ...
As David Cameron continues to progressively dismantle the remnants of the UK planning system, it might be comforting to look overseas, where the history of spatial planning is being celebrated. An ...
Peshmerga soldiers engage in a simulated raid on a mock town—complete with eclectic facades—in Erbil, Iraq. (Cpl. Nelson Rodriguez/Public Domain) In the latter half of the 20th century, as ...
Joan Clos is Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and Secretary-General of the Habitat III Conference. We are just a few days away from the opening of the ...
A University of Wyoming researcher was part of a recent study that investigated how changes in urban land and population will affect future populations’ exposure to weather extremes at the end of the ...