Environmental Care in Urban Land Use Planning — a Component of Sustainable Development

2019 ◽

Vol XLII-2/W11 ◽

pp. 653-660

Author(s):

S. Khademi ◽

M. Norouzi ◽

M. Hashemi

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Urban Planning ◽

Land Use Planning ◽

Urban Land ◽

Sustainability Indicators ◽

Urban Land Use ◽

Sustainable Land Use ◽

Ancient Monuments ◽

The City

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Determining the manner of land-use and the spatial structure of cities on the one hand, and the economic value of each piece of land on the other hand, land-use planning is always considered as the main part of urban planning. In this regard, emphasizing the efficient use of land, the sustainable development approach has presented a new perspective on urban planning and consequently on its most important pillar, i.e. land-use planning. In order to evaluate urban land-use, it has been attempted in this paper to select the most significant indicators affecting urban land-use and matching sustainable development indicators. Due to the significance of preserving ancient monuments and the surroundings as one of the main pillars of achieving sustainability, in this research, sustainability indicators have been selected emphasizing the preservation of ancient monuments and historical observance of the city of Susa as one of the historical cities of Iran. It has also been attempted to integrate these criteria with other land-use sustainability indicators. For this purpose, Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) and the AHP model have been used for providing maps displaying spatial density and combining layers as well as providing final maps respectively. Moreover, the rating of sustainability will be studied in different districts of the city of Shush so as to evaluate the status of land sustainability in different parts of the city. The results of the study show that different neighborhoods of Shush do not have the same sustainability in land-use such that neighborhoods located in the eastern half of the city, i.e. the new neighborhoods, have a higher sustainability than those of the western half. It seems that the allocation of a high percentage of these areas to arid lands and historical areas is one of the main reasons for their sustainability.</p>

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IMPACTS OF URBAN LAND USE ON CRIME PATTERNS THROUGH GIS APPLICATION

PLANNING MALAYSIA JOURNAL ◽

10.21837/pmjournal.v11.i2.113 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Ahmad Nazri Muhamad Ludin ◽

Norsiah Abd. Aziz ◽

Nooraini Hj Yusoff ◽

Wan Juliyana Wan Abd Razak

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Drug Abuse ◽

Land Use Planning ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Spatial Relationship ◽

Police Department ◽

Strong Relationship ◽

Urban Land ◽

Urban Land Use ◽

Land Use Patterns

Land use planning plays a crucial role in creating a balance between the needs of society, physical development and the ecosystem. However, most often poor planning and displacement of land uses particularly in urban areas contribute to social ills such as drug abuse and criminal activities. This research explains the spatial relationship of drug abuse and other criminal activities on urban land use planning and their implications on the society at large. Spatial statistics was used to show patterns, trends and spatial relationships of crimes and land use planning. Data on crime incidents were obtained from the Royal Malaysia Police Department whilst cases of drug abuse were collected from the National Anti-Drug Agency (AADK). Analysis of the data together with digital land use maps produced by Arnpang Jaya Municipal Council, showed the distribution of crime incidents and drug abuse in the area. Findings of the study also indicated that, there was a strong relationship between petty crimes, drng abuse and land use patterns. These criminal activities tend to concentrate in residential and commercial areas of the study area.

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Optimization of a Novel Urban Growth Simulation Model Integrating an Artificial Fish Swarm Algorithm and Cellular Automata for a Smart City

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13042338 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 2338

Author(s):

Xinxin Huang ◽

Gang Xu ◽

Fengtao Xiao

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Urban Growth ◽

Smart City ◽

Urban Land ◽

Urban Land Use ◽

Growth Simulation ◽

Artificial Fish Swarm Algorithm ◽

Artificial Fish Swarm ◽

Ca Model

As one of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, it is sensible to analysis historical urban land use characteristics and project the potentials of urban sustainable development for a smart city. The cellular automaton (CA) model is the widely applied in simulating urban growth, but the optimum parameters of variables driving urban growth in the model remains to be continued to improve. We propose a novel model integrating an artificial fish swarm algorithm (AFSA) and CA for optimizing parameters of variables in the urban growth model and make a comparison between AFSA-CA and other five models, which is used to study a 40-year urban land growth of Wuhan. We found that the urban growth types from 1995 to 2015 appeared relatively consistent, mainly including infilling, edge-expansion and distant-leap types in Wuhan, which a certain range of urban land growth on the periphery of the central area. Additionally, although the genetic algorithms (GA)-CA model and the AFSA-CA model among the six models due to the distance variables, the parameter value of the GA-CA model is −15.5409 according to the fact that the population (POP) variable should be positively. As a result, the AFSA-CA model regardless of the initial parameter setting is superior to the GA-CA model and the GA-CA model is superior to all the other models. Finally, it is projected that the potentials of urban growth in Wuhan for 2025 and 2035 under three scenarios (natural urban land growth without any restrictions (NULG), sustainable urban land growth with cropland protection and ecological security (SULG), and economic urban land growth with sustainable development and economic development in the core area (EULG)) focus mainly on existing urban land and some new town centers based on AFSA-CA urban growth simulation model. An increasingly precise simulation can determine the potential increase area and quantity of urban land, providing a basis to judge the layout of urban land use for urban planners.

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From centralised planning to collaborative urban land use planning: The case of Wat Ket, Chiang Mai, Thailand

Social Sciences & Humanities Open ◽

10.1016/j.ssaho.2021.100154 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 100154

Author(s):

Somporn Sangawongse ◽

Robert Fisher ◽

Sidhinat Prabudhanitisarn

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Use Planning ◽

Urban Land ◽

Urban Land Use ◽

Chiang Mai

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Urban land use planning in hill areas

Habitat International ◽

10.1016/0197-3975(82)90071-6 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 6 (1-2) ◽

pp. 233-234

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Use Planning ◽

Urban Land ◽

Urban Land Use

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Underground Space Utilization in the Urban Land-Use Planning of Casablanca (Morocco)

Land ◽

10.3390/land7040143 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (4) ◽

pp. 143

Author(s):

Mariama Zerhouny ◽

Abdelhamid Fadil ◽

Mustapha Hakdaoui

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Use Planning ◽

Urban Land ◽

Urban Land Use ◽

Information Modeling ◽

Prototype Model ◽

Underground Space ◽

Urban Dynamics ◽

Integrated Platform ◽

Underground Infrastructure

With the rapid rate of population growth and economic development, cities face enormous challenges that require both optimal and integrated solutions to meet the needs of growth and to protect the environment and sustainable development. These urban dynamics, which change over time, extend not only horizontally and upward, but also downward. Thus, underground space has been utilized increasingly to relieve the urban surface and to ensure the exploitation of underground resources. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the possibilities of using this space in Casablanca as part of urban land-use planning and, consequently, to suggest an integrated model of exploitation of this space that is adapted to the specificities of the study area. Thus, an analysis of the use of underground spaces in a set of European cities has been performed. The study of the characteristics of this space in Casablanca has been realized according to the levels of geology and hydrogeology and two underground infrastructure projects. This work has led to the implementation of a prototype model named “Sub-Urban Information Modeling”. The model’s objective is to gather all the data and knowledge related to the relevant underground space in an integrated platform that can be shared and updated in order to facilitate the understanding of this environment and its interaction with the surface and to ensure the rational and efficient use of its resources.

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