Remote Sensing Applications for the Urban Environment

Remote Sensing Applications for the Urban Environment

Author: George Z. Xian

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2015-10-09

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1420089854

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Land use and land cover changes associated with increased urbanization have led to landscape and environmental changes throughout the world. Remote Sensing Applications for the Urban Environment places emphasis on the rapid development of worldwide urbanization and its impact on the environment, and reviews the assessment of urban land cover condit


Metroburbia, USA

Metroburbia, USA

Author: Paul L. Knox

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0813543576

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Decades of economic prosperity in the United States have redefined the American dream. Paul Knox explores how extreme versions of this dream have changed the American landscape. Increased wealth has led America?s metropolitan areas to develop into vast sprawling regions of?metroburbia??fragmented mixtures of employment and residential settings, combining urban and suburban characteristics. Upper-middle-class Americans are moving into larger homes in greater numbers, which leads Knox to explore the relationship between built form and material culture in contemporary society. He covers changes.