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The dimensions of global urban expansion: estimates and projections for all countries, 2000–2050
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In this paper, the authors created a new dataset comprising all 3646 named metropolitan agglomerations and cities that had populations in excess of 100,000 in the year 2000, their populations in that year, and their built-up area identified in the Mod500 map, currently the best of eight satellite-based global maps of urban land cover.About:
This article is published in Progress in Planning.The article was published on 2011-02-01. It has received 866 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Urbanization & Land development.read more
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Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools
TL;DR: S spatially explicit probabilistic forecasts of global urban land-cover change are developed and the direct impacts on biodiversity hotspots and tropical carbon biomass are explored to minimize global biodiversity and vegetation carbon losses.
Global Forecasts of Urban Expansion to 2030 and Direct Impacts on Biodiversity and Carbon Pools
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop spatially explicit probabilistic forecasts of global urban land-cover change and explore the direct impacts on biodiversity hotspots and tropical carbon biomass, showing that urban land cover change threatens biodiversity and affects ecosystem productivity through loss of habitat, biomass, and carbon storage.
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The footprint of urban heat island effect in China
TL;DR: Using MODIS data from 2003 to 2012, it is shown that the UHI effect decayed exponentially toward rural areas for majority of the 32 Chinese cities, and an obvious urban/rural temperature “cliff” is found.
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Global land cover mapping at 30 m resolution: A POK-based operational approach
Jun Chen,Jin Chen,AnPing Liao,Xin Cao,LiJun Chen,Xuehong Chen,Chaoying He,Gang Han,Shu Peng,Miao Lu,WeiWei Zhang,Xiaohua Tong,Jon P. Mills +12 more
TL;DR: In this article, an approach based on the integration of pixel-and object-based methods with knowledge (POK-based) has been developed to handle the classification process of 10 land cover types, i.e., firstly each class identified in a prioritized sequence and then results are merged together.
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The Origins of Scaling in Cities
TL;DR: All cities may evolve according to a small set of basic principles that operate locally, which are shown to be independent of city size and might be a useful means to evaluate urban planning strategies.
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