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Measuring urban sprawl of Srinagar city, Jammu and Kashmir, India

Nengroo, Zahoor A.; Bhat, M. Sultan; Kuchay, Nissar A. - In: Journal of urban management 6 (2017) 2, pp. 45-55

Urbanization, as such, is not perceived as a threat to the environment and development but it is unplanned urban sprawl … intricacies and implications associated with the problem of unplanned urban growth ensuing into sprawl. The methods used to … measure the sprawl of Srinagar City are modified versions of SCATTER (The Sprawling Cities And Transport: from Evaluation to …

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Drivers of urban sprawl in Dammam metropolitan area (DMA), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia : a qualitative exploration

Almatar, Khalid Mohammed; Alhajri, Mubarak F. - In: Journal of urban management 13 (2024) 3, pp. 469-481

Urban water security is a multi-faceted water, socioeconomic, and governance challenge. The complexity of translating the holistic approach into policies is an important need for improving water resource management to achieve prosperity, equity, sustainability, and good governance. The city of...

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Spatiotemporal association of urban park characteristics and physical activity levels based on GTWR : a serial cross-sectional observational study

Tao, Zheng; Chen, Junqi; Wu, Wenrui; Ding, Jiahui; … - In: Journal of urban management 13 (2024) 3, pp. 398-409

Physical inactivity poses a significant public health challenge. Numerous studies have argued that urban parks can promote physical activity (PA). However, evidence of physical activity observed over long periods of time in parks is still very lacking. Our serial cross-sectional study within...

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Exploring perceptions towards biodiversity conservation in urban parks : insights on acceptability and design attributes.

Chinga, Javiera; Murúa, Maureen; Gelcich, Stefan - In: Journal of urban management 13 (2024) 3, pp. 425-436

Green infrastructure has emerged as an opportunity to balance sociocultural and ecological benefits, alongside the potential for biodiversity conservation in cities. However, key design challenges that remain unsolved including 1) how to effectively balance biodiversity conservation and...

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Examining and predicting land use change dynamics in Gandhinagar district, Gujarat, India

Purswani, Ekta; Verma, Satyam; Jayakumar, S.; Khan, M. L.; … - In: Journal of urban management 11 (2022) 1, pp. 82-96

-centric approach. But the projected scenario discovered a faster sprawl-like built-up growth towards the urban areas in the west and …

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Exploring peri-urban dynamism in India : evidence from Kolkata Metropolis

Mondal, Dinabandhu; Banerjee, Anuradha - In: Journal of urban management 10 (2021) 4, pp. 382-392

Peri-urbanisation around metropolitan cities of India has been an emerging and apparent phenomenon in the last few decades. The peri-urban spaces, which are characterised by co-existence of urban and rural elements, are very dynamic in nature and undergoing continuous changes with regards to...

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Analyses and modeling of urban land use and road network interactions using spatial-based disaggregate accessibility to land use

Ahmadzai, Farhad - In: Journal of urban management 9 (2020) 3, pp. 298-315

Rapid urbanization in developing countries enforces authorities to assess the sustainability and balanced development of urban cities from multiple perspectives and recommend appropriate solutions for policy and decision-makers. This study proposes spatial-based disaggregate accessibility to...

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Analyses of land use land cover (LULC) change and built-up expansion in the suburb of a metropolitan city : spatio-temporal analysis of Delhi NCR using landsat datasets

Naikoo, Mohd Waseem; Rihan, Mohd; Ishtiaque, Mohammad; … - In: Journal of urban management 9 (2020) 3, pp. 347-359

During past four decades, in post economic reforms period, Delhi and its surrounding regions has attracted a large number of populations which led to the rapid transformation of its LULC pattern. Therefore, this study is aimed to analyze the LULC changes during 1990-2018 as well as the growth...

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Can the Laffer curve become a policy tool for reducing tax evasion? : stratification of property tax collection by land use

Arbel, Yuval; Fialkoff, Chaim; Kerner, Amichai - In: Journal of urban management 8 (2019) 1, pp. 57-74

We construct Laffer curves to evaluate the efficiency of local property tax collection based on a micro-level panel dataset referring to 2013–2016 and obtained from the Jerusalem municipality. Unlike previous literature, we apply a tractable ad hoc methodology, which, compared with the...

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Quantification of the land use/land cover dynamics and the degree of urban growth goodness for sustainable urban land use planning in Addis Ababa and the surrounding Oromia special...

Mohamed, Asfaw; Worku, Hailu - In: Journal of urban management 8 (2019) 1, pp. 145-158

Uncontrolled urban growth and haphazard land developments are one of the crucial problems in Addis Ababa and the surrounding Oromia special zone causing environmental degradation and rural-urban land base conflicts. This is mostly because of the rapidly increasing built-up area that conquered...

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