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Building resilience to flood risks via green space planning in urban Ghana
Green spaces provide flood-regulating functions that help minimize the impact of flooding. However, in urban Africa, rapid urbanization has led to...
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Role of Sustainable Urban Metabolism in Urban Planning
The term “metabolism” refers to the fundamental process whereby living organisms maintain a constant exchange of products and materials to their...
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Medium-Sized Spanish Cities: Urban Planning and Urban Policies
This chapter addresses the debate on the restatement of the dynamics of urbanizationMedium-Sized Spanish Cities in medium-sized Spanish citiesCities...
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Causes of the development of buildable areas in the urban planning of small municipalities in the Czech Republic (case study South Bohemian region)
Although the rules for the development of municipalities are rooted in legislation, they are often neglected, and the municipality’s interest in...
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Prioritizing the Environment in Urban Sustainability Planning Policies and Practices of Canadian Cities
This book examines the extent to which the environment is addressed in the sustainability plans of Canadian cities. It assesses if and to what extent...
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Urban expansion in Greater Irbid Municipality, Jordan: the spatial patterns and the driving factors
Urban expansion within Greater Irbid Municipality (GIM) witnessed an extraordinary rise, expanding approximately ninefold between 1967 and 2020....
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Assessment of urban green spaces per capita in a megacity of the Philippines: implications for sustainable cities and urban health management
Megacities house the highest human population due to centralizing economic activities, causing congestion and increased settlements in urban areas....
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Understanding the Urban Planning-Green Space Depletion Nexus: Insights from the Kwabre East Municipality, Ghana
Urban green spaces have multiple benefits but face intense pressure, particularly in rapidly develo** cities of sub-Saharan Africa. Efforts to...
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Urban Policy and the Future of Urban and Regional Planning in Africa
This chapter examined urban policy that is influencing urban development in the context of rapid urbanization with a view to understand planning...
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Managing public urban lands for sustainable urban development in Bujumbura, Burundi: The role of land administration system
Public Urban Lands (PULs) are among the pieces of land that will contribute to achieving sustainable urban development. There is a need to have an...
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Characteristics of Population Shrinkage in Inner Urban China and Correlations with Urban Growth Patterns
Urban shrinkage has led to urban decline and depopulation in Western countries. With the development of urbanization in China, urban shrinkage also...
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Solar Urban Planning in African Cities: Challenges and Prospects
This chapter aims to identify and evaluate the opportunities and challenges of solar urban planning in Africa’s cities. Using the Preferred Reporting...
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Integrating Food Sensitive Planning and Urban Design into Urban Governance Actions
Food access, stability and utilisation are key dimensions of food security at an urban scale. When the majority resided in rural areas, and lived...
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Educational Inequality and Urban Development: Education as a Field for Urban Planning, Architecture and Urban Design
Educational inequalities and spatial disparities can be intertwined; consequently, education has become a field of action for urban planners,...
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The Urban Planning-Real Estate Development Nexus
Urbanization is one of the most prominent features of the twenty-first century in most towns and cities of the develo** world. Africa has been...
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Planning to ‘Hear the Farmer’s Voice’: an Agent-Based Modelling Approach to Agricultural Land Use Planning
Agricultural land use is influenced not only by multiple aspects of biophysical and socio-economic processes, but also the cumulative impacts of...
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Housing movements and formal–informal planning practices in metropolitan Sao Paulo, Brazil
The radical planning literature suggests that formal and informal planning practices shape urban planning in global South cities. However, studies...
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Multilevel effects of urban form and urban functional zones on housing prices: evidence from open-source big data
While the relationship between local housing prices and the urban form and distribution of urban functional zones in a single city is well-discussed,...
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Study on the land surface cover dynamics of built-up areas and its implication for sustainable urban planning in Hawassa city, Ethiopia
Rapid and uncontrolled urbanization is one of the drivers responsible for land cover Change dynamics in Ethiopia. In most of the cities and towns of...
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Remote sensing for identification of trip generating territories in support of urban mobility planning and monitoring
This article aims is to apply a methodology to identify Trip Generating Territories (TGT) in order to discuss the relationship between transport and...
