What is Driving Urban Land Expansion?

A YSE-led research team investigated how population and economic growth in 300 cities affects urban land expansion.

Urban land expansion: the role of population and economic growth ...

These findings support theory from urban economics and urban science that posit population and income as the primary drivers of ULE. For example ...

Urban expansion: theory, evidence and practice | Buildings & Cities

Urban expansion is a consequence of urban population growth because urban settlements consume land. Both urban densification and urban expansion can ...

Identifying driving factors of urban land expansion using Google ...

The importance of the independent variables showed that the most important factors in the MLR model were the elevation, risk of goaf collapse, ...

Global projections of future urban land expansion under shared ...

Urban land is expanding even faster than urban population, exerting a profound impact on biodiversity conservation and the water, carbon, ...

Urban Land Expansion and Decreased Urban Sprawl at Global ...

Even though urban expansion occurred, as opposed to sustainable land use with growth boundaries, overall human densities increased. Human ...

Global Urban Land Expansion Tends To Be Slope Climbing: A ...

The slope climbing of urban land expansion (SE) can profoundly change the three-dimensional spatial distribution pattern of urban land ...

The Driving Mechanism of Urban Land Expansion from 2005 to 2018

In summary, farmland was the main source of urban land expansion, while the decrease in residential land in rural areas was another important ...

Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on ...

Although urban land cover is a relatively small fraction of the total Earth surface, urban areas drive global environmental change (4). Urban expansion and ...

Identifying The Drivers of Urbanization - Seto Lab

The main drivers of land conversion vary regionally in importance. Annual GDP growth per capita drives approximately half of observed urban land expansion in ...

What drives land take and urban land expansion? A systematic review

Among them, population and income growth, as well as the development of transport infrastructure and automobile use, are widely studied drivers that are most ...

Trends in urban land expansion, density, and land transitions from ...

Here, we conduct a global synthesis of trends in urban land expansion, in urban population densities, and lands converted into urban from 1970 ...

Urban land expansion and its driving factors of mountain cities in ...

This study identified 55 major mountain cities at and above prefecture level, and analyzed the land expansion characteristics and driving forces.

Urban land expansion: the role of population and economic growth ...

Global urban populations are projected to increase by 2.5 billion over the next 30 years. Yet, there is limited understanding of how this growth will affect ...

Spatial Interaction and Driving Factors between Urban Land ... - MDPI

The urban shrinkage type can be subdivided into three sub-types: land shrinkage and population growth, land shrinkage and population shrinkage and land ...

Driving forces and prediction of urban land use change based on ...

Exploring urban land use change is a classical problem in urban geography. Taking Zhengzhou as an example, this paper analyzes the spatial and temporal ...

Biodiversity impacts and conservation implications of urban land ...

We find that urban land expansion is a contributing driver of habitat loss (≥5% of total loss) for around one-third (26 to 39%) of the species assessed.

Urban Land Expansion | Encyclopedia MDPI

Population growth and economic development are the main factors affecting urban land growth. The rapid expansion of urban land in China has been driven not only ...

Spatio-temporal Patterns and Driving Forces of Urban Land ...

Case studies of the 13 mega cities showed that urban expansion had been largely driven by demographic change, economic growth, and changes in land use policies ...

A Review of Driving Factors, Scenarios, and Topics in Urban Land ...

In plan-related factors, land use plans and policies are direct methods for growth management to control urban development where growth is proper. They can ...