Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Urban Growth in Latin American Cities: An Analysis Using Nighttime Lights Imagery

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan C. Duque ◽  
Nancy Lozano-Gracia ◽  
Jorge E. Patino ◽  
Paula Restrepo ◽  
Wilson A. Velasquez
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Nighttime Lights ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
American Cities

scholarly journals Urban Phenomena in São Paulo’s Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Appropriating Local Spatio-Temporalities

Tempo Social ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-69
Author(s):  
Sebastian Dorsch
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Relational Analysis ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
American Cities ◽  
The City

The article seeks to investigate urban phenomena in São Paulo’s 19th and 20th centuries by utilizing Henri Lefebvre’s concept of appropriation. Thus I focus on the relations between urban space(s) and its inhabitants, and the analysis of the city – usually perceived as space – becomes a spatio-temporal and relational analysis regarding dynamic practices, conflicts, etc. understood as urban phenomena. How did the inhabitants appropriate São Paulo? May we state special forms by comparing it to other Latin American cities of former times? How did the migrants arriving at the end of 19th century change old forms of living in the city? I conclude with remarks and critics on the potential of using the concept of appropriation in urban studies.

scholarly journals Latin American Cities in the Eighteenth Century: A Sketch

2013 ◽  
pp. 7-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Woodrow Borah
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Cultural Models ◽  
Regional Economies ◽  
Urban Settlement ◽  
American Cities ◽  
Approximate Doubling ◽  
Made In

In Latin America the eighteenth century was a time of approximate doubling of the population and considerable economic development and reorientation of the economy. Urban settlement reflected these changes. The bulk of urban growth was by replication of existing patterns into areas of new settlement. Some expansion of older cities and heightening of urban functions took place. In the reordering of regional economies, Buenos Aires, Havana, and Rio de Janeiro profited; Lima failed to prosper. Within existing and new cities, much building replaced older structures in more durable materials, and, in the largest, multi-family, multi-storied structures appeared. Following developments in Europe, beginnings were made in paving streets, providing lighting, installing drains, and so-forth. In similar wise, administration adopted new forms and social welfare was reorganized for more efficient response to natural disasters. Cultural models, copied from Europe, even included the beginning of cafés.

scholarly journals Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Municipal Planning, a case study of Barahathawa Municipality, Nepal

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kedar Dahal ◽  
Krishna P. Timilsina
Keyword(s):  
Urban Growth ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Transportation Network ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Spatio Temporal

The Rapid transformation of rural settlements into municipalities in Nepal has brought significant changes in land use and urban expansion patterns mostly through the conversion of agricultural land into the built-up area. The issue is studied taking a case of rapidly growing town Barahathawa Municipality of Sarlahi District. After the declaration of the municipality, several new roads have been opened and upgraded; and the municipality has well-connected to the national transportation network. After promulgated the Constitution of Nepal 2015 and elected local bodies, the municipality budget has been increased significantly as a result of increasing municipal investment in socio-economic and physical infrastructure development and environmental protection which have attracted people, goods, and services creating the zone of influence. One of the changes found in the municipality is the increasing built-up area and expansion of urban growth through the decreasing agricultural land. Urban growth has been observed taking place around the Barahathawa Bazaar and main roadsides. The built-up area in Barahathawa municipality has remarkably increased by 184% with the decrease of shrub and agricultural land within 10 years. Implications of such spatial and temporal dynamics have been a core issue of urban planning in most of the newly declared municipalities in Nepal

scholarly journals Publicidad formal de servicios inmobiliarios en Bogotá y Latinoamérica, ¿otro “termómetro” del crecimiento urbano? / Formal Advertising of Real Estate Services in Bogotá and Latin America: Another Barometer of Urban Growth?

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 709
Author(s):  
Carlos Roberto Peña Barrera
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
City Growth ◽  
The World ◽  
On Line ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Yellow Pages ◽  
American Cities

Los objetivos más importantes de esta investigación son los siguientes: 1) comprobar la hipótesis de que el crecimiento de las ciudades también puede medirse valiéndose del análisis de los datos que se pueden extraer de los avisos publicitarios de las empresas que prestan servicios relacionados con el ámbito inmobiliario y que aparecen en las páginas amarillas en papel y virtuales; 2) comparar los resultados de estos datos con las cifras de población, viviendas, superficies urbanas, PIB y censo catastral inmobiliario. Para ello se extrajeron los datos del directorio de Bogotá de los años que permitieran compararse con las fechas en las que se llevaron a cabo los últimos censos de población y vivienda (1993 y 2005), y también para 2008, a fin de que el panorama fuera más reciente; también se tomaron los datos de las páginas amarillas virtuales de algunas de las más importantes ciudades de Latinoamérica, para el año 2009. En el caso de Bogotá se comprobó que su crecimiento urbano es directamente proporcional al del número de empresas inmobiliarias, y en el de algunas ciudades de Latinoamérica se corroboró que sucede prácticamente lo mismo. En suma, se pudo concluir que analizar estos datos es una opción importante para medir el crecimiento urbano, por lo menos para las últimas dos décadas, pero también un indicador innovador para monitorear el crecimiento de muchas ciudades del mundo que publiquen páginas amarillas virtuales. AbstractThe main objects of this research are given below: 1) prove the hypothesis that city growth can also be measured by using the analysis of data extracted from real estate companies’ advertisements, published in the paper and on-line versions of the Yellow Pages; 2) compare the results of these data with population, housing, urban area, GDP and real estate land census figures. To this end, data were obtained from the Bogotá directory for the years that permitted a comparison between the dates when the last population and housing censuses (1993 and 2005) were carried out and 2008, to provide a more recent overview. Data were also taken from the virtual Yellow Pages of certain major Latin American cities in 2009. In the case of Bogotá, urban growth proved to be directly proportional to the number of real estate firms, as it did in a number of Latin American cities. In short, analyzing these data is an important means of measuring urban growth at least for the last two decades. It is also an innovative indicator for monitoring thegrowth of many cities in the world that publish virtual Yellow Pages.

Urban Sprawl and the Quantification of Spatial Dispersion

2013 ◽  
pp. 129-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federico Martellozzo ◽  
Keith C. Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Spatial Dispersion ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Natural Land ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Environment Agency ◽  
Over Time

The uncontrolled spread of cities into their surrounding rural and natural land is an issue of high popular interest and has been the topic of considerable research. Urban sprawl remains controversial, even though among scholars there are still no unambiguous definitions of sprawled zones--their spatial form and their causative factors--nor about the urban processes and dynamics involved. In order to create such a definition, the authors describe the spatio-temporal patterns of urban form in a study area noted for sprawl, focusing on measures that can detect the degree of urban spatial dispersion over time (Batty 2002). The data used is a fusion of archived thematic maps, classified satellite imagery, census data, and forecast maps of future urban scenarios. The area investigated was the northeastern province of Pordenone in Italy, which is particularly relevant and curious because despite being a small city, it was assessed in 2002 as one of the most explicative examples of sprawl in Europe by the European Environment Agency. The authors analyzed urban growth mainly through the evolution of urban patterns over time, hence sprawl is considered as a specific case of growth that drives urban expansion from denser and compact extent to an unorganized and fragmented pattern. How the spatio-temporal dynamics of urban growth are quantified is crucial for urban planners, as knowledge of amounts and rates allows more efficient selection and application of policy and could help researchers to better understand urban sprawl’s etiology.

Spatiotemporal dynamics of urban growth in Latin American cities: An analysis using nighttime light imagery

2019 ◽  
Vol 191 ◽  
pp. 103640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan C. Duque ◽  
Nancy Lozano-Gracia ◽  
Jorge E. Patino ◽  
Paula Restrepo ◽  
Wilson A. Velasquez
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Spatiotemporal Dynamics ◽  
Nighttime Light ◽  
Nighttime Light Imagery ◽  
American Cities

scholarly journals Characterizing Urban Expansion Combining Concentric-Ring and Grid-Based Analysis for Latin American Cities

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 444
Author(s):  
Su Wu ◽  
Neema Simon Sumari ◽  
Ting Dong ◽  
Gang Xu ◽  
Yanfang Liu
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Concentric Ring ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Ring Analysis ◽  
American Cities ◽  
Grid Based

Spatio-temporal characterization of urban expansion is the first step towards understanding how cities grow in space. We summarize two approaches used in urban expansion measurement, namely, concentric-ring analysis and grid-based analysis. Concentric-ring analysis divides urban areas into a series of rings, which is used to quantify the distance decay of urban elements from city centers. Grid-based analysis partitions a city into regular grids that are used to interpret local dynamics of urban growth. We combined these two approaches to characterize the urban expansion between 2000–2014 for five large Latin American cities (São Paulo, Brazil; Mexico City, Mexico; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Bogotá, Columbia; Santiago, Chile). Results show that the urban land (built-up area) density in concentric rings decreases from city centers to urban fringe, which can be well fitted by an inverse S curve. Parameters of fitting curves reflect disparities of urban extents and urban form among these five cities over time. Grid-based analysis presents the transformation of population from central to suburban areas, where new urban land mostly expands. In the global context, urban expansion in Latin America is far less rapid than countries or regions that are experiencing fast urbanization, such as Asia and Africa. Urban form of Latin American cities is particularly compact because of their rugged topographies with natural limitations.

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