Urban Development in Asia and Africa: Geospatial Analysis of MetropolisesYuji Murayama, Courage Kamusoko, Akio Yamashita, Ronald C. Estoque This book examines the urban growth trends and patterns of various rapidly growing metropolitan regions in developing Asian and African nations from the perspective of geography. State-of-the-art geospatial tools and techniques, including geographic information system/science and remote sensing, were used to facilitate the analysis. In addition to the empirical results, the methodological approaches employed and discussed in this book showcase the potential of geospatial analysis, e.g. land-change modeling for improving our understanding of the trends and patterns of urban growth in Asia and Africa. Furthermore, given the complexity of the urban growth process across the world, issues raised in this book will contribute to the improvement of future geospatial analysis of urban growth in the developing regions. This book is written for researchers, academicians, practitioners, and graduate students. The inclusion of the origin and brief history of each of the selected metropolitan regions, including the analysis of their urban primacy, spatiotemporal patterns of urban land-use changes, driving forces of urban development, and implications for future sustainable development, makes the book an important reference for various related studies. |
Contents
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3 Rapid Urbanization in Developing Asia and Africa | 47 |
Urbanization in Asia | 62 |
4 Beijing Metropolitan Area | 65 |
5 Manila Metropolitan Area | 84 |
6 Jakarta Metropolitan Area | 111 |
7 Hanoi Metropolitan Area | 131 |
Urbanization in Africa | 255 |
13 Dakar Metropolitan Area | 257 |
14 Bamako Metropolitan Area | 274 |
15 Nairobi Metropolitan Area | 293 |
16 Lilongwe Metropolitan Area | 318 |
17 Harare Metropolitan Area | 347 |
18 Johannesburg Metropolitan Area | 371 |
Urban Trend and Future | 390 |
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Annual rate Asia and Africa Bamako Bamako Metropolitan Area Bangkok Bangladesh Beijing built-up areas built-up class built-up lands built-up patches cellular automata change km²/year city center Class-level built-up countries Dakar Metropolitan Area Dakar region decrease Dhaka distance from city economic environment environmental Estoque and Murayama Estoque RC gradient Hanoi Harare industrial infill infrastructure Jakarta Johannesburg Kamusoko Kathmandu Kenya km² land use/cover changes land use/cover maps landscape pattern Lilongwe Malawi mean CIRCLE value Metro Hanoi Metro Manila Myanmar Nairobi Nairobi Metropolitan Area Nepal non-built-up to built-up Observed built-up expansion patches of built-up Philippines population density population growth primate city Projected urban land rapid urbanization rate of change region remote sensing Senegal simulated land use/cover spatial patterns statistics sustainable urban development Table Tehran Metropolitan Area trend ULC intensity UN-Habitat United Nations urban areas urban growth urban land changes urban land use/cover urban population Vietnam World Bank Yangon Zimbabwe