Urban development wave: Understanding physical spatial processes of urban expansion from density gradient of new urban land

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

(2022) Saurav Chakraborty et al.   HABITAT INTERNATIONAL

Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Changes and Expansion Patterns in Mainland Chinese Urban Land between 1995 and 2015

(2021) Chuanzhou Cheng et al.   Remote Sensing

Gradient characteristics of China's land use patterns and identification of the east-west natural-socio-economic transitional zone for national spatial planning

(2021) Jingjing Liu et al.   LAND USE POLICY

Suburban identification based on multi-source data and landscape analysis of its construction land: A case study of Jiangsu Province, China

(2021) Yasi Tian et al.   HABITAT INTERNATIONAL

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

(2020) Burak Güneralp et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Mapping global urban land for the 21st century with data-driven simulations and Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

(2020) Jing Gao et al.   Nature Communications

What is the influence of landscape metric selection on the calibration of land-use/cover simulation models?

(2020) Jinyao Lin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

What do you mean “functional” in ecology? Patterns versus processes

(2020) Florence Volaire et al.   Ecology and Evolution

New indices to capture the evolution characteristics of urban expansion structure and form

(2020) Jiafeng Liu et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

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

Simulating urban dynamics by coupling top-down and bottom-up strategies

(2019) Weilin Wang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SCIENCE

Annual maps of global artificial impervious area (GAIA) between 1985 and 2018

(2019) Peng Gong et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

A neural network and landscape metrics to propose a flexible urban growth boundary: A case study

(2018) Suman Chakraborti et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Analyzing urban spatial patterns and trend of urban growth using urban sprawl matrix: A study on Kolkata urban agglomeration, India

(2018) Mehebub Sahana et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

A comparative study of urban fragmentation patterns in small and mid-sized cities of Idaho

(2018) Christopher Felt et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Measuring heterogeneity in urban expansion via spatial entropy

(2018) L. Altieri et al.   ENVIRONMETRICS

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

A global analysis of land take in cropland areas and production displacement from urbanization

(2017) Jasper van Vliet et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

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

Forms of Urban Expansion of Chinese Municipalities and Provincial Capitals, 1970s–2013

(2016) Fang Liu et al.   Remote Sensing

Multi-order Landscape Expansion Index: Characterizing urban expansion dynamics

(2015) Limin Jiao et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Landscape sequences along the urban–rural–natural gradient: A novel geospatial approach for identification and analysis

(2015) Marco Vizzari et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

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

(2015) Limin Jiao   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Landscape ecology, land-use structure, and population density: Case study of the Columbus Metropolitan Area

(2012) Jia Lu et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Characterizing growth types and analyzing growth density distribution in response to urban growth patterns in peri-urban areas of Lianyungang City

(2012) Yaqi Shi et al.   LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING

Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools

(2012) K. C. Seto et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2010) Xiaoping Liu et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

The use of gradient analysis studies in advancing our understanding of the ecology of urbanizing landscapes: current status and future directions

(2008) Mark J. McDonnell et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY