NUST Institutions Library Catalogue

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 Urban growth and sprawl -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Urban geography -- 1.3 Urban development, urban growth, and urbanisation -- 1.4 Urban area -- 1.5 Urban ecosystem -- 1.6 Urban sprawl -- 1.6.1 Defining urban sprawl -- 1.7 Physical patterns and forms of urban growth and sprawl -- 1.7.1 Urban growth patterns as sprawl -- 1.8 Temporal process of urban growth and sprawl -- 2 Causes and consequences of urban growth and sprawl -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Causes of urban growth and sprawl -- 2.2.1 Population growth -- 2.2.2 Independence of decision -- 2.2.3 Economic growth -- 2.2.4 Industrialisation -- 2.2.5 Speculation -- 2.2.6 Expectations of land appreciation -- 2.2.7 Land hunger attitude -- 2.2.8 Legal disputes -- 2.2.9 Physical geography -- 2.2.10 Development and property tax -- 2.2.11 Living and property cost -- 2.2.12 Lack of affordable housing -- 2.2.13 Demand of more living space -- 2.2.14 Public regulation -- 2.2.15 Transportation -- 2.2.16 Road width -- 2.2.17 Single-family home -- 2.2.18 Nucleus family -- 2.2.19 Credit and capital market -- 2.2.20 Government developmental properties -- 2.2.21 Lack of proper planning policies -- 2.2.22 Failure to enforce planning policies -- 2.2.23 Country-living desire -- 2.2.24 Housing investment -- 2.2.25 Large lot size --

2.3 Consequences of urban growth and sprawl -- 2.3.1 Inflated infrastructure and related public service costs -- 2.3.2 Energy inefficiency -- 2.3.3 Disparity in wealth -- 2.3.4 Impacts on wildlife and ecosystem -- 2.3.5 Loss of farmland -- 2.3.6 Increase in temperature -- 2.3.7 Poor air quality -- 2.3.8 Impacts on water quality and quantity -- 2.3.9 Impacts on public and social health -- 2.3.10 Other impacts -- 3 Towards sustainable development and smart growth -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Sustainable development -- 3.3 Smart growth -- 3.3.1 Compact neighbourhoods -- 3.3.2. Transit-oriented development -- 3.3.3. Pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly design -- 3.3.4 Other elements -- 3.4 Restricting urban growth and sprawl -- 4 Remote sensing, GIS, and urban analysis -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Remote sensing -- 4.3 Urban remote sensing -- 4.4 Consideration of revolutions in urban applications -- 4.4.1 Spatial resolution -- 4.4.2 Spectral and radiometric resolutions -- 4.4.3 Temporal resolution -- 4.5 Geographic Information System -- 4.5.1 GIS in urban analysis -- 4.6 Urban analysis -- 4.6.1 Analysis of urban growth -- Analysis of urban growth using remote sensing data --

5 Mapping and monitoring urban growth -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Image overlay -- 5.3 Image reduction -- 5.4 Image index (ratioing) -- 5.5 Spectral-temporal classification -- 5.6 Image regression -- 5.7 Principal components analysis transformation -- 5.8 Change vector analysis -- 5.9 Artificial neural network -- 5.10 Decision tree -- 5.11 Intensity-hue saturation transformation -- 5.12 Econometric panel -- 5.13 Image classification and post-classification comparision -- 5.14 Challenges and constraints -- 6. Measurement and analysis of urban growth -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Transition matrices -- 6.2.1 Transition matrix in urban growth analysis -- 6.3 Spatial metrics -- 6.3.1 Remote sensing, spatial metrics, and urban modelling -- 6.3.2 Spatial metrics in urban growth analysis -- 6.4 Spatial statistics -- 6.4.1 Types of spatial statistics -- 6.4.2 Spatial statistics in urban growth analysis -- 6.5 Quantification and characterisation of sprawl -- 7 Modelling and simulation of urban growth -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Urban model and modelling -- 7.2.1 Classification of urban models -- 7.3 Theoretical models -- 7.4 Aggregate-level urban dynamic models -- 7.5 Complexity science-based models -- 7.5.1 Cell-based dynamics models -- 7.5.2 Agent-based models -- 7.5.3 Artificial Neural Network (ANN)-based models -- 7.5.4 Fractal geometry-based models -- 7.6 Rule-based land-use and transport models -- 7.7 Modelling of urban growth -- 7.7.1 Modelling of urban growth from remote sensing data --

8 Limitations of urban growth analysis -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Data and scale dependency -- 8.2.1 Spatial scale -- 8.2.2 Pattern quantification scale -- 8.2.3 Pattern summarisation scale -- 8.3 Data generation methods -- 8.4 Classification accuracy -- 8.5 Selection of metrics -- 8.6 Definition of the spatial domain -- 8.7 Spatial characterisation -- 8.8 Spatial dependency (autocorrellation) -- 8.9 Spatial and temporal sampling -- 8.10 Modifiable areal unit problem.