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The urban transition that has emerged over the past quarter century poses new challenges for mapping land cover/land use change (LCLUC).
In the United States, urbanization processes have resulted in a large variety—or “continuum”—of urban landscapes.
We build upon much of the accumulated knowledge of the widely used SLEUTH urban land change model and offer advances.
Cities present significant opportunities for new landscape perspectives that can help inform conservation and development decisions. Early in the twenty-first century, the majority of the planet’s population became urban as more people lived in city-regions for the first time in our history.
A particular challenge for undertaking urbanization mapping of Beirut is the absence of a unified understanding of the city. Migration, informal settlements, a lack of urban planning, political corruption, as well as internal conflict have made this task even harder.
When we use the urban metabolism model for urban development, the input in the model is often valuable landscape, being the resource of the development, and output in the form of urban sprawl, as a result of city transformations. The resilience of these “output” areas is low.
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