Search results | Land Portal

Search results

Showing items 1 through 9 of 14.
  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    September, 2010
    Colombia

    La problemática de la protección de bienes en el país es una pregunta obligatoria para quienes tienen dentro de su labor el reconocimiento, la restitución y la reparación de las víctimas del desplazamiento forzado. Uno de los puntos que deben analizarse dentro de esta problemática es lo concerniente a la protección de bienes urbanos y cuya responsabilidad está en cabeza de los municipios.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    Argentina

    La problemática habitacional actual de la ciudad de Buenos Aires gira en torno a dos fenómenos: la precariedad y los desalojos, en un contexto que se concibe de emergencia habitacional. Como reacción a esta situación, algunos organismos institucionales y ciertas organizaciones sociales con anclaje territorial en la zona sur de la ciudad comenzaron a llevar adelante acciones de resiliencia frente a los desalojos masivos que, como consecuencia de la presión inmobiliaria, afectaban a los hoteles, pensiones, inquilinatos y casas tomadas de esta zona de la ciudad.

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books

    The dispersion has given rise to a different mode of city production. Throughout history, urban planning has sought to act on several occasions about the growth of the city and the preservation of green space. In the present work aims to identify the tools that provide the Greater London Plan and the Holland Notes to finish the city while preserving the rural space. The study shows in both cases, the State has exercised control over the urban planning, land use and connectivity of urban centers across transport networks.

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    Argentina

    Una de las principales preocupaciones dentro de los estudios en Tecnologías de Información Geográfica es el desarrollo de metodologías reproducibles en diferentes ciudades que contribuyan al análisis del proceso de urbanización. El objetivo de este trabajo es proponer una nueva metodología que permita extraer la superficie edificada del área urbana y discrimine las distintas densidades que en ella existen. La metodología se basa en imágenes satelitales Landsat 5 TM que presenta una vasta cobertura territorial y temporal que asegura la posibilidad de réplica.

  5. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2016
    Indonesia

    This is an empirical study of economic measurement of the optimal size of
    seven cities in West Sumatra region, Indonesia. The empirical findings are quite interesting
    since the calculated optimal city size does not result in a single measure as mostly
    previous studies found, but they vary in accordance with the economic approaches used.
    The optimal city size measured by using the maximum profit approach would have been
    larger in size compared to those measured by the minimum cost and maximum net benefit

  6. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    June, 2012
    Iran

    Urban sprawl has become a remarkable characteristic of urban development worldwide in the last decades. Urban sprawl refers to the extent of urbanization, which is a global phenomenon mainly driven by population growth and large scale migration. In developing countries like Iran, urban sprawl is taking its toll on the natural resources at an alarming pace. The purpose of this paper is to study urban growth and effective factors on them in the city of Urmia, Iran. We used quantitive data of the study area from the period between 1989 and 2007, and population censuses of Urmia.

  7. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    June, 2014
    Italy

    The present study assesses changes (1949-2008) in the structure of a Mediterranean urban area (Rome, Italy) in three phases (compact growth, medium-density growth, low-density growth) of its recent expansion which reflect different economic contexts at the local scale. Using a quantitative approach based on land-use indicators and landscape metrics, distribution and fragmentation of built-up areas were analyzed from high-resolution and diachronic digital maps covering the investigated area (1,500 km2).

  8. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2011

    Immediately after the 1967 war and the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza the national religious youngsters (Gush Emmunim settlers) reached out to settle the new frontier of the biblical places. By thus, they have developed a Messianic myth. The interpretation of Gush-Emmunim settlers’ experience of landscapes reveals a complex and contradictory structure of sense of space. Settlers’ mythical sense of space may be understood in two strata - imagined and material.

  9. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    June, 2013

    Richmond, Virginia has implemented numerous mixed land-use policies to encourage non-private-vehicle commuting for decades based on the best practices of other cities and the assumption that land-use mixture would positively lead to trip reduction. This paper uses both Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and statistical tools to empirically test this hypothesis. With local land use and trip making data as inputs, it first calculates two common indices of land-use mixture - entropy and dissimilarity indices, using GIS tool, supplemented by Microsoft Excel.

  10. Library Resource
    Peer-reviewed publication
    June, 2014
    Israel

    The emergence of GIS and the availability of high resolution geographic data have improved our ability to investigate the residential segregation in cities and to identify the temporal changes of the spatial phenomena. Using GIS, we have quantitatively and visually analyzed the correspondence between land-use distribution and Arab residential patterns and their changes in the period between 1983 and 2008 in five mixed Arab-Jewish Israeli cities. Results show a correspondence between the dynamics of Arab/Jewish residential patterns and the spatial distribution of various land-uses.

Land Library Search

Through our robust search engine, you can search for any item of the over 64,800 highly curated resources in the Land Library. 

If you would like to find an overview of what is possible, feel free to peruse the Search Guide


Share this page