Building in or out? Examining urban expansion patterns and land use efficiency across the global sample of 466 cities with million+ inhabitants

Spatio-temporal patterns of urbanization in the Kolkata Urban Agglomeration: A dynamic spatial territory-based approach

(2021) Saurav Chakraborty et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Monitoring global land-use efficiency in the context of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

(2021) Ronald C. Estoque et al.   HABITAT INTERNATIONAL

Dominant urban form and its relation to nighttime land surface temperature in the rapidly urbanizing National Capital Region of India

(2021) Saurav Chakraborty et al.   Urban Climate

Urbanization and urban land use efficiency: Evidence from regional and Addis Ababa satellite cities, Ethiopia

(2021) Nesru H. Koroso et al.   HABITAT INTERNATIONAL

Spatiotemporal patterns of urbanization in three Swiss urban agglomerations: insights from landscape metrics, growth modes and fractal analysis

(2020) Martí Bosch et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Trends in urban land expansion, density, and land transitions from 1970 to 2010: a global synthesis

(2020) Burak Güneralp et al.   Environmental Research Letters

The occupation of cropland by global urban expansion from 1992 to 2016 and its implications

(2020) Qingxu Huang et al.   Environmental Research Letters

High-spatiotemporal-resolution mapping of global urban change from 1985 to 2015

(2020) Xiaoping Liu et al.   Nature Sustainability

How does urban expansion interact with cropland loss? A comparison of 14 Chinese cities from 1980 to 2015

(2020) Ying Tu et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Towards sustainability? Analyzing changing urban form patterns in the United States, Europe, and China

(2019) Ting Dong et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Urban expansion and form changes across African cities with a global outlook: Spatiotemporal analysis of urban land densities

(2019) Gang Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Understanding urban expansion combining macro patterns and micro dynamics in three Southeast Asian megacities

(2019) Gang Xu et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Urban land expansion in China's six megacities from 1978 to 2015

(2019) Weicheng Fei et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

A new ranking of the world's largest cities—Do administrative units obscure morphological realities?

(2019) H. Taubenböck et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Comparison of urban growth patterns and changes between three urban agglomerations in China and three metropolises in the USA from 1995 to 2015

(2019) Qingsong He et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Building up or spreading out? Typologies of urban growth across 478 cities of 1 million+

(2019) Richa Mahtta et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Do spatial patterns of urbanization and land consumption reflect different socioeconomic contexts in Europe?

(2018) Luca Salvati et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Urban Growth, Land-use Efficiency and Local Socioeconomic Context: A Comparative Analysis of 417 Metropolitan Regions in Europe

(2018) Emanuela Masini et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Land use change, urbanization, and change in landscape pattern in a metropolitan area

(2018) Hashem Dadashpoor et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

How does urban population density decline over time? An exponential model for Chinese cities with international comparisons

(2018) Gang Xu et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Quantifying Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Urban Growth Modes in Metropolitan Cities of China: Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Guangzhou

(2017) Jinpei Ou et al.   JOURNAL OF URBAN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Quantifying Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Urban Growth Modes in Metropolitan Cities of China: Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, and Guangzhou

(2017) Jinpei Ou et al.   JOURNAL OF URBAN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

Diffusion or coalescence? Urban growth pattern and change in 363 Chinese cities from 1995 to 2015

(2017) Qingsong He et al.   Sustainable Cities and Society

Future urban land expansion and implications for global croplands

(2016) Christopher Bren d’Amour et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

General Spatiotemporal Patterns of Urbanization: An Examination of 16 World Cities

(2016) Zhifeng Liu et al.   Sustainability

Land abandonment as a precursor of built-up development at the sprawling periphery of former socialist cities

(2015) Simona Raluca Grădinaru et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Urban land density function: A new method to characterize urban expansion

(2015) Limin Jiao   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Rates and patterns of urban expansion in China’s 32 major cities over the past three decades

(2015) Shuqing Zhao et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Long-Term Urban Growth and Land Use Efficiency in Southern Europe: Implications for Sustainable Land Management

(2015) Marco Zitti et al.   Sustainability

Quantifying the speed, growth modes, and landscape pattern changes of urbanization: a hierarchical patch dynamics approach

(2013) Cheng Li et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

A Meta-Analysis of Global Urban Land Expansion

(2011) Karen C. Seto et al.   PLoS One

A new landscape index for quantifying urban expansion using multi-temporal remotely sensed data

(2010) Xiaoping Liu et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY