Overview
- Showcases 15 cases of metropolitan regions across Asia and Africa
- Analyzes the urban growth trends and patterns using state-of-the-art geospatial tools and techniques
- Provides abundant empirical results and methodological approaches to introduce the potential of geospatial analysis
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The Urban Book Series (UBS)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (20 chapters)
-
Urbanization in Africa
-
Urban Trend and Future
-
Front Matter
-
-
Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Yuji Murayama, professor, Division of Spatial Information Science, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan. His expertise and fields of interest include GIS, spatial analysis, urban geography, and transportation geography. Publications: Murayama Y. ed. (2012). Progress in Geospatial Analysis. Tokyo: Springer, 291 pp. Murayama Y. and Thapa R. B., eds. (2011). Spatial Analysis and Modeling in Geographical Transformation Process: GIS-Based Application. Dordrecht: Springer, 300 pp. Kamusoko C., Mundia C. N., and Murayama Y. eds. (2011). Recent Advances in Remote Sensing and GIS in Sub-Sahara Africa. New York: Nova Publishers, 211 pp. Murayama Y. and Du G. eds. (2005). Cities in Global Perspective: Diversity and Transition. Tokyo: College of Tourism, Rikkyo University with IGU Commission, 626 pp. Murayama Y. (2000). Japanese Urban System. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 271 pp.
Courage Kamusoko, researcher, Asia Air Survey, Japan. His expertise includes land use/cover change modelling, and the design and implementation of geospatial database management systems. His primary research involves analyses of remotely sensed images, land use/cover modelling, and machine learning. In addition to his focus on geospatial research and consultancy, he has dedicated time to teaching practical machine learning for geospatial analysis and modelling. Publication: Kamusoko C., Mundia C. N., and Murayama Y. eds. (2011). Recent Advances in Remote Sensing and GIS in Sub-Sahara Africa. New York: Nova Publishers, 211 pp.
Akio Yamashita, assistant professor, Division of Regional Geography, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan. His expertise includes geography, GIS, and study of urban environmental issues. Papers published: Yamashita A. (2014). “Aspects of water environmental issues in Jakarta due to its rapid urbanization.” Tsukuba Geoenvironmental Sciences, 10, 43–50. Yamashita A. (2011). “Comparative analysis on land use distributions and their changes in Asian mega cities.” In: Taniguchi M. ed. Groundwater and Subsurface Environments: Human Impacts in Asian Coastal Cities, Springer, 61–81.
Ronald C. Estoque, researcher, Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan. His research interests include the applications of geospatial technologies such as remote sensing and GIS, as well as social-ecological approaches, for landscape sustainability studies. One of his most recent research articles, entitled “Quantifying landscape pattern and ecosystem service value changes in four rapidly urbanizing hill stations of Southeast Asia”, is published in Landscape Ecology (2016), 31, 1481–1507. His other major research articles are published in Cities, ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Applied Geography, Landscape and Urban Planning,AMBIO, GIScience & Remote Sensing, Geocarto International, Ecological Indicators, and Land Use Policy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urban Development in Asia and Africa
Book Subtitle: Geospatial Analysis of Metropolises
Editors: Yuji Murayama, Courage Kamusoko, Akio Yamashita, Ronald C. Estoque
Series Title: The Urban Book Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3241-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-3240-0Published: 11 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9823-9Published: 25 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-3241-7Published: 29 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2365-757X
Series E-ISSN: 2365-7588
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 424
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations, 185 illustrations in colour
Topics: Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, World Regional Geography (Continents, Countries, Regions), Sustainable Development