Managing urbanisation and urban sprawl in Malaysia by using remote sensing and GIS applications
In the global era, more than half of the world population live in urban area. With rapid urbanisation growth where the highest percentage concentrates in Asia, a relevant approach is needed to eliminate the possible threat that occurs after urbanisation took place; the urban sprawl. Urban sprawl...
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| Language: | English English |
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Malaysian Institute of Planners
2016
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/51487/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/51487/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/51487/1/51487.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/51487/4/51487_Managing%20urbanisation%20and%20urban%20sprawl%20in%20Malaysia_SCOPUS.pdf |
| Summary: | In the global era, more than half of the world population live in urban area. With rapid
urbanisation growth where the highest percentage concentrates in Asia, a relevant
approach is needed to eliminate the possible threat that occurs after urbanisation took
place; the urban sprawl. Urban sprawl is a popular term in academic discourse and has a
long history but until these days, the concrete definition of this term is not yet configured.
Many studies of sprawl have rooted back in non-Asian countries making the solution for
sprawl is not suitable to be implemented in term of theories and practice. This research
attempts to study the measurement of sprawl by using these geospatial indexes with
Remote Sensing and GIS approach. The SPOT-5 images with 2.5 meters resolution were
used to analyse the growth of sprawl in Kuala Lumpur metropolitan due to its high
urbanisation rate. The findings show that Kuala Lumpur is a sprawling city. It is
anticipated that this research will provide a new direction in urban sprawl studies and
represent a robust analytic approach for characterizing urban development on the city
scale at once as well as promoting a city via Remote Sensing and GIS technology. |
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