Sustainable Zoning, Land-Use Allocation and Facility Location Optimisation in Smart Cities

Many cities around the world are facing immense pressure due to the expediting growth rates in urban population levels. The notion of ‘smart cities’ has been proposed as a solution to enhance the sustainability of cities through effective urban management of governance, energy and transportation. The research presented herein examines the applicability of a mathematical framework to enhance the sustainability of decisions involved in zoning, land-use allocation and facility location within smart cities. In particular, a mathematical optimisation framework is proposed, which links through with other platforms in city settings, for optimising the zoning, land-use allocation, location of new buildings and the investment decisions made regarding infrastructure works in smart cities. Multiple objective functions are formulated to optimise social, economic and environmental considerations in the urban space. The impact on underlying traffic of location choices made for the newly introduced buildings is accounted for through optimised assignment of traffic to the underlying network. A case example on urban planning and infrastructure development within a smart city is used to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed method.

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Assessing Habitat Vulnerability and Loss of Naturalness: Applying the GLOBIO3 Model in the Czech Republic

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13105355 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (10) ◽

pp. 5355

Author(s):

Vilém Pechanec ◽

Ondřej Cudlín ◽

Miloš Zapletal ◽

Jan Purkyt ◽

Lenka Štěrbová ◽

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Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Czech Republic ◽

Habitat Quality ◽

Species Abundance ◽

Biodiversity Loss ◽

Infrastructure Development ◽

Natural Habitats ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

New Equation ◽

The Impact

Global and regional biodiversity loss is caused by several drivers including urban development, land use intensification, overexploitation of natural resources, environmental pollution, and climate change. The main aim of our study was to adapt the GLOBIO3 model to the conditions of the Czech Republic (CR) to assess loss of naturalness and biodiversity vulnerability at the habitat level on a detailed scale across the entire CR. An additional aim was to assess the main drivers affecting the biodiversity of habitat types. The GLOBIO3 model was adapted to CZ-GLOBIO by adapting global to local scales and using habitat quality and naturalness data instead of species occurrence data. The total mean species abundance (MSA) index of habitat quality, calculated from the spatial overlay of the four MSA indicators by our new equation, reached the value 0.62. The total value of MSA for natural and near-natural habitats was found to be affected mainly by infrastructure development and fragmentation. Simultaneously, intensity of land use change and atmospheric nitrogen deposition contributed primarily to the low total value of MSA for distant natural habitats. The CZ-GLOBIO model can be an important tool in political decision making to reduce the impact of the main drivers on habitat biodiversity in the CR.

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DAMPAK PERUBAHAN GUNA LAHAN TERHADAP KEMAMPUAN RESAPAN AIR (KASUS: KOTA SAMARINDA)

JURNAL PEMBANGUNAN WILAYAH & KOTA ◽

10.14710/pwk.v15i1.20713 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 70 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Warsilan Warsilan

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Catchment Area ◽

Infrastructure Development ◽

City Development ◽

Water Catchment Area ◽

East Kalimantan ◽

City Culture ◽

Water Catchment ◽

The Impact

As the capital of the province of East Kalimantan, Samarinda City developments has a rapid progress from year to year. Samarinda City Development has a tendency oriented towards infrastructure development without regard to the existence of the quality of the existing environment. Imbalance of development in Samarinda city is to start decreasing the water catchment area, so its make increasing intensity of flood in the Samarinda City. The purpose of this study was to analyze the impact of changes in land use in the Samarinda city on the ability of the water catchment area. This research method using descriptive approach, the data collection system of primary and secondary. Intensity flood in the Samarinda city is increasing from year to year, this condition happened as a problem that always occurs during the rainy season. Current development trends, always take an area that should be an infiltration area for Samarinda City. Culture and inadequate infrastructure conditions such as lack of system of drainage and polder, was another factor causing the high intensity of flood in Samarinda City. Therefore, the relevant regulations development guidelines for Samarinda City must consider all aspects of planning, in this case especially the important of a balance of cultivated land and protected areas or zones.Keywords: Changes in land use; intensity of puddles; Samarinda

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A study of decadal Land use-land cover change in Dehradun city.

10.5194/egusphere-egu21-14196 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Gayatri Singh

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Cover ◽

Change Detection ◽

Land Cover Change ◽

Water Levels ◽

Physical Factors ◽

Infrastructure Development ◽

Land Use Land Cover ◽

Detection Analysis ◽

The Impact

<p>The present study is to quantify the spatial-temporal pattern of the Land Use/ Land Cover Change (LULCC) during a decade (i.e., 2010 to 2020) in the Dehradun city which is situated in the foothills of the Himalaya, using Landsat data. The study helps in identifying the major bio-physical factors governing LULCC through modern geospatial techniques. Change detection shows that the study area experienced an increase in its urban area from 2010 to 2020 and a comparatively decrease in cropland and forest area. This was due to an increase in its urban population, rapid increase in industrialization and tourism during the same period. The change detection analysis further shows that 2010-2020, associated with change in croplands, change in built-up, forest lands, change in water-bodies, water levels, and rainfall. With comparison of above results and collected socio-economic data in this region, the impact of changing land use & bio-physical/ economic factors on agricultural profitability were analyzed. The result of this study could thus lead to a detailed and lucid spatiotemporal assessment of the major bio-physical factors. It is expected that the study will help in facilitating better policy making and infrastructure development for industries and urbanization.<br><br></p>

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The impact of urban regrowth on the built environment

Urban Studies ◽

10.1177/0042098016658231 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 54 (12) ◽

pp. 2683-2700 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Manuel Wolff ◽

Annegret Haase ◽

Dagmar Haase ◽

Nadja Kabisch

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Population Density ◽

Built Environment ◽

Urban Space ◽

Small Scale ◽

Spatial Effects ◽

Similar Density ◽

The Impact ◽

The City

After several decades, an increasing number of European cities have been experiencing population growth after a longer phase of decline. This new growth represents not just a quantitative phenomenon but also has qualitative implications for the urban space and the built environment. A juxtaposition of re- and de-densification, as well as changes in land use, in the form of a small-scale spatial mosaic, can be observed. A crucial factor for estimating the relationship between the built environment and demand for it is population density. Increasing population densities may put pressure on sustaining a certain quality of life and on ecological recovery spaces. In this vein, an indicator concept for re- and de-densification will be applied to the city of Leipzig, one of the most illustrative examples of a regrowing city, in order to shed light on the complex relationship between changing human housing demands and their impact on land use. The concept involves measuring population density. Our study has demonstrated that, although similar density changes can be observed in different periods in different parts of the city, they are dominated by different drivers, leading to the formation of different spatial patterns. The results of our study emphasise that regrowth should be understood as a distinctive process because it is distributed very heterogeneously within the city area, with a variety of spatial effects and impacts. The concept allows us to draw conclusions about processes that mitigate, drive or reinforce regrowth, and therefore contributes to a better understanding of this phenomenon and its implications for land use.

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Urban Sprawl Mapping through Geo-Informatics and Impact on Land use and Landcover of Kakinada Municipal Corporation in Andhra Pradesh, India.

International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering - 2 ◽

10.35940/ijrte.b3514.079220 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 373-378

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Land Cover ◽

Urban Sprawl ◽

Water Body ◽

Urban Expansion ◽

Natural Increase ◽

Infrastructure Development ◽

Dry Land ◽

Gis And Remote Sensing ◽

The Impact

Urban infrastructure and urban sprawl required the idea of preparing a proper management plan to avoid the unwanted environmental and economic impacts that come with it. The main objective of the research is to map the urban sprawl using Geospatial technology and t its impact on land use and land cover. The increase in the rate of population over the last two decades is equally responsible for the urban expansion and subsequent infrastructure development. The results of the integrated geospatial study shows that the urban expansion of Kakinada Municipal Corporation was largely caused by the increase in built-up area from 29.67% in 1995, 44.86% in 2011 to 51.34% in 2017 to 62.84% in 2019 out of Kakinada’s township area of 189552.6 ha mainly due to natural increase of the population and rural ward migration. Vegetation area was 50.68% in 1995 and has declined to 37.82% in 2011. However, the percentage of vegetation experienced a hike and covered 40.23% in 2017 and then went downhill with a land cover percentage of 34.04% of the total township by the year 2019. Over the last two decades the water-body and the dry land were largely converted into built-up areas. The decline of 49151 ha of water-body due mainly because of the urban expansion and the dry-land lost nearly 27200.79 ha of its land cover to the built-up areas. Therefore, controlling and monitoring of urban expansion using GIS and remote sensing technologies are vital solutions to assess the impact of urban expansion of land use and land cover.

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The role of modern narrative museums in the urban space

Text and Image Essential Problems in Art History ◽

10.17721/2519-4801.2020.2.07 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 109-118

Author(s):

Mykhailo Zubar ◽

Dmitry Panto

Keyword(s):

Urban Space ◽

Physical Space ◽

Infrastructure Development ◽

Social Functions ◽

Tourist Attractions ◽

Sociological Studies ◽

Physical Spaces ◽

Post Industrial ◽

The Impact

The article has examined the revision of the social functions of museums associated with changes in social structures, which began in the second half of the last century. This process caused a wide-ranging discussion about changes in the place and role of museums in society, which led to the emergence of museum institutions whose scope went beyond the gathering, study, conservation, and exhibition of collections. The authors pay attention to the role of museum institutions within the physical spaces and local communities in which the museum exists, considering it in the context of the impact on urban space. The article analyzes the process of tourism development in the second half of the twentieth century and its impact on the beginning of the "museum boom". In this context considered the process of museums transformation into tourist attractions, their formation of cultural space, and the infrastructure of settlements. Particular attention paid to the role of the modern museum in the formation of an attractive image of cities and regions. The authors presented the role of the modern museum in the revitalization of urban physical space. Also, they analyzed the experience of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and its role in transforming the post-industrial depressed city into one of the centers of European and world tourism and culture. Based on the experience of Polish narrative museums, the authors examined the process of revitalization and changes in the urban space, after the emergence of a modern museum. Particular attention paid to the analysis of sociological studies that exploring the impact of modern narrative museum on tourist attractiveness, security, investment attractiveness and infrastructure development processes of modern urban space. Also, the authors paid attention to the role of the modern museum in the development of social capital, which leads to the process of transforming museums into places of leisure, building around themselves a space of values, local and global communication.

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Mapping the Sound Environment of Andorra and Escaldes-Engordany by Means of a 3D City Model Platform

Urban Science ◽

10.3390/urbansci3030089 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 89

Author(s):

Rosa Ma Alsina-Pagès ◽

Marc Vilella ◽

Marc Pons ◽

Robert Garcia Almazan

Keyword(s):

Urban Space ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Pilot Project ◽

Environmental Noise ◽

New Paradigm ◽

Noise Sources ◽

3D City Model ◽

Sound Environment ◽

Model Platform ◽

The Impact

In the new paradigm of the smart cities world, public opinion is one of the most important issues in the new conception of urban space and its corresponding regulations. The data collection in terms of environmental noise cannot only be related to the value of the equivalent noise level L A e q of the places of interest. According to WHO reports, the different types of noise (traffic, anthropomorphic, industrial, and others) have different effects on citizens; the focus of this study is to use the identification of noise sources and their single impacts on background urban noise to develop a visualization tool that can represent all this information in real time. This work used a 3D model platform to visualize the acoustic measurements recorded at three strategic positions over the country by means of a sound map. This was a pilot project in terms of noise source identification. The visualization method presented in this work supports the understanding of the data collected and helps the space-time interpretation of the events. In the study of soundscape, it is essential not only to have the information of the events that have occurred, but also to have the relations established between them and their location. The platform visualizes the measured noise and differentiates four types of noise, the equivalent acoustic level measured and the salience of the event with respect to background noise by means of the calculation of SNR (Signal-to-Noise), providing better data both in terms of quantity and quality and allowing policy-makers to make better-informed decisions on how to minimize the impact of environmental noise on people.

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Analysis of the Social Aspect of Smart Cities Development for the Example of Smart Sustainable Buildings

Energies ◽

10.3390/en14144330 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (14) ◽

pp. 4330

Author(s):

Aleksandra Radziejowska ◽

Bartosz Sobotka

Keyword(s):

Urban Space ◽

Smart City ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Social Aspect ◽

Sustainable Buildings ◽

Effect Analysis ◽

Intelligent Buildings ◽

The Social ◽

Swot Matrix ◽

The Impact

The concept of a smart city is assumed to use resources more efficiently and in an innovative, creative, and intelligent manner. Initial experience with implementing this concept relates primarily to investments in technology and infrastructure using smart solutions, particularly technical urban infrastructure. An important social aspect of a smart city—people—cannot not go unnoticed. The inhabitants of a smart city are not only beneficiaries; they participate in its co-creation, initiate activities and are creative. This paper focuses on one of the smart city’s technical infrastructure components, which are intelligent sustainable buildings. This article aims to analyze the factors characterizing smart sustainable buildings (SSB) and the possibilities for their development. For this purpose, a SWOT matrix was developed. The factors of this matrix were subjected to a cause-effect analysis using the DEMATEL method to establish relationships between them. The results of the analysis allowed us to examine the social aspect, i.e., the impact of creators and users of sustainable, intelligent buildings on their development and possibilities for their creative and innovative use in an urban space.

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