Distribution Of Urban Land Research Articles

The Development Authority and the formative years of the Israeli land regime

The history of Israel’s land allocation regime is traced from its inception in the formative years (1948–60), focusing on distribution of urban land to private and business entities. Rich archival materials provide documentation regarding the Development Authority (DA), established in 1950, and its practices. The prohibition on selling “national lands,” zealously observed in Israel’s rural regions, was never closely adhered to in urban areas. The DA’s double role, as a major actor in land allocation as well as the institution representing the “rules of the game,” serves as a platform for a preliminary examination into institutional path dependency theories.

TERRA, CASA E PRODUÇÃO. REPARTIÇÃO DE TERRAS DA CAPITANIA DO RIO GRANDE (1614)

A distribuicao gratuita de terras aos colonos, mesmo que mediante algumas exigencias, foi um processo que marcou a historia colonial do Brasil. Um caso tipico, cujo interesse reside no fato de ser do inicio da colonizacao, pode ser detectado atraves da analise do “auto de reparticao de terras” da capitania do Rio Grande. A analise deste importante documento, escrito em 1614, ha exatos 400 anos, permitiu compreender esse processo na antiga capitania, atual estado do Rio Grande do Norte, ainda em seus primordios. Dividido em tres partes principais - alem de uma introducao, de uma conclusao, e de uma apresentacao sobre o documento em si - este artigo analisa a distribuicao de terras rurais (a terra), de terras urbanas (a casa) - neste ultimo caso para a unica aglomeracao colonial existente, Natal, permitindo desvendar, tanto quanto possivel, como era essa cidade - assim como, finalmente, a producao, isto e, o que a terra rural assim distribuida fornecia ou poderia fornecer aos colonos.

Predicting Urban Land Use Changes Using a CA–Markov Model

This study employs a CA–Markov model as one of the planning support tools for analysis of temporal changes and spatial distribution of urban land uses in Anzali, located in Gilan province in the northwest of Iran. In the first step, area changes and spatial distribution of land uses in the town were analyzed and calculated using geographic information systems technology for a time span 1989–2011. In the next step, using the transition matrix, the spatial distribution of urban land uses in 2021 was simulated, the changes were predicted and the possible growth patterns were identified as well. The results showed a declining trend of 10.64 % in forest, 8.52 % in Anzali wetland and 11.54 % in barren land during 1989–2011, and also an increasing trend of 7.1 % in urban areas for a time span 1989–2021. Major expansions in urban areas were witnessed around western and eastern borders of the city, particularly close to the eastern border. Scattered expansions were also predicted in the Anzali wetlands registered in the Ramsar Convention (southern borders). This study provides an opportunity to define and apply better strategies for environmental management of land use to make an optimized balance between urban development and ecological protection of environmental resources.

Property Market Efficiency: Developed or Vacant Property

Property market efficiency in terms of adequate supply of land for proper use will have a strong impact on the value of urban real estate. Land supply plays an important role in providing space for housing which also includes meeting the demands of the commercial and industrial sectors. Hence, the distribution of urban land for development will affect the structural development of a city. Meanwhile, the existence of vacant urban land can lead to an unbalanced real estate development. This paper therefore aims to examine property efficiency relationship between real estate ability and the development process. Literature review from previous studies suggests that it is possible to examine property market efficiency. The term ‘efficiency’ has been viewed from different perspectives of theories or approaches by various researchers. Interestingly, many researchers have tried to examine property efficiency issues from the conventional approach until the emergence of the need to provide an alternative economic institutional approach. Institutionalisms consider rules, policy and organisations and the way these may govern agents’ social relations and their attitudes in the society. It means the major role of institutions in a society is to reduce uncertainty by establishing a stable structure to human interaction.

Urban Spatial Expansion Prediction Based on CA Model: A Case Study of Jinhu Coastal Area

Jinhu coastal area urban land distribution maps in 1990,2000 and 2010 were compiled with the help of Erdas and ArcGIS,and they served as the basis for urban spatial expansion simulation.The authors used urban CA model which had time and space dynamic constraints to simulate Jinhu coastal area urban spatial form of 2020.The advanced nature of this model lies in the multi-time interval phase transition rule.It uses transition probability matrix to predict urban land total quantity as constraints of CA model,and utilizes logistic regression to adjust the transition rule of CA model.The authors calculated landscape pattern indexes of various stages and drew the following conclusions: the urban land shape complicated unceasingly,and the degree of fragmentation increased from 1990 to 2010;nevertheless,the urban land shape was becoming regularized and the degree of fragmentation tends to decline from 2010 to 2020.During the period of 1990-2020,the average patch size is on the rise,the influence of the largest patch is enlarging year by year,and the accumulation of urban land is accelerated.The geographical space of cities in Jinhu coastal area is gradually narrowed and,with the improvement of regional transportation conditions,the spatial integrated development of Jinhu will become an inevitable trend.

A critical look at representations of urban areas in global maps

According to the UN, the number of urban dwellers is expected to increase from roughly 3.2 billion today to more than 4.9 billion by 2030. An accurate and regularly updated estimate of the extent and spatial distribution of urban land is an important first step in our search for realistic responses to the ecological and social consequences of what promises to be the most rapid urbanization in world history. By employing circa-2000 satellite remote sensing imagery, geographic information systems, and census data, six groups from government and academia in both the EU and the US have created global maps that can be used to describe urban land. We compare these maps from global to sub-national scales, for the first time applying Discrete Global Grids to the problem of global-scale map comparison. Although most of these maps share common data inputs, they differ by as much as an order of magnitude in their estimates of the total areal extent of the Earth’s urban land (from 0.27 to 3.52 million km2). A sub-national analysis of the spatial distribution of urban land reveals that inter-map correlations are highest in North America ( $$ \ifmmode\expandafter\bar\else\expandafter\=\fi{r} $$ = 0.90), intermediate in Europe, South and Central America, and Sub-Saharan Africa ( $$ \ifmmode\expandafter\bar\else\expandafter\=\fi{r} $$ = 0.78), and lowest in Asia ( $$ \ifmmode\expandafter\bar\else\expandafter\=\fi{r} $$ = 0.63). Across most regions, our analysis uncovers a degree of variance that is high enough to call into question the consistency of each group’s approach to urban land, pointing to the need for both a common urban taxonomy and a global urban assessment effort.