122R_Urban sprawl and its impact on sustainable urban development: a combination of remote sensing and social media data (research summary)

Are you interested in how urban sprawl affects sustainable urban development? 

Summary of the article titled Urban sprawl and its impact on sustainable urban development: a combination of remote sensing and social media data from 2021 by Zhenfeng Shao, Neema S. Sumari, Aleksei Portnov, Fanan Ujoh, Walter Musakwa and Paulo J. Mandela, published in the Geo-Spatial information Science journal. 

Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see how urban sprawl affects urban services. This article presents the case of Morogoro in Africa, and the results that sensing and population data can be useful for interpreting urban sprawl and access to urban services.

As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

Urban sprawl generally refers to the unrestricted growth in many urban areas of housing, commercial development and roads over large expanses of land with little concern to urban planning.
Urban expansion has had significant impacts on poverty, living conditions and environmental quality within the sprawl areas of the Morogoro urban municipality, and with that, ecosystem services supporting human and natural populations also declined.
Planning and regulation need to lead to a planned and sustainable future that will be ecologically sensitive, support conservation and biodiversity and provide a safe habitation for urban dwellers.

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Abstract: 

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