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Assessing the Relationship Between City Compactness and Residential Land Use Growth

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The growth of residential land use is more significant than that of other urban land uses. This growth causes the destruction of large areas of natural environment for residential development, especially in sprawl urban expansion. By contrast, a compact and centralized urban pattern, as one of the most sustainable urban forms because of its environmental conservation principles, such as rural development containment and efficient land consumption, controls the growth of urban land uses into natural environments. However, a proper analysis of the reciprocal relationship between residential growth and compact development is necessary to predict and propose different future alternative scenarios. This chapter deals with this issue through a case study of Rajang City in Malaysia, which is a tropical region with large forest areas and agricultural fields. First, the city compactness of the study area is assessed with respect to residential land use changes. Second, the growth of residential areas is predicted by using two common land use change modeling approaches and the future residential maps are evaluated with respect to city compactness maps. In this manner, the performances of the selected models are also evaluated for land use change modeling applications in terms of model accuracy, complexity, and functional relationships between dependent and independent variables.

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Acknowledgements

We wish to thank the Selangor town and country planning department (JPBD) in Rajang City for providing various thematic and social information of Rajang area. In addition, we wish to thank the Ministry of Higher Education, Malaysia for financial supporting of this research.

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    Saleh Abdullahi, Biswajeet Pradhan & Hossein Mojaddadi

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Abdullahi, S., Pradhan, B., Mojaddadi, H. (2017). Assessing the Relationship Between City Compactness and Residential Land Use Growth. In: Pradhan, B. (eds) Spatial Modeling and Assessment of Urban Form. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54217-1_6

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