Urbanization/Urban Sprawl | NASA Earthdata
Our data include resources useful to the study of urbanization and urban sprawl, such as metropolitan statistical areas, heat estimates, nighttime lights datasets, and population density grids. These products help scientists understand the ecological, sociological, and economic impact of growing cities around the world.
Urban Sprawl - Urban Design and Planning - Fort Worth Forum
2004年4月17日 · Urban Sprawl - posted in Urban Design and Planning: What is called Urban Sprawl seems to be right up there with killing baby seals and global warming as a negative concept.I think I understand the term as more or less uncontrolled horizontal growth in housing and services for an increasing population of any given area. This growth covers previously …
Will Urban Sprawl Survive to 2119 - Urban Design and Planning
2019年2月2日 · Page 1 of 2 - Will Urban Sprawl Survive to 2119 - posted in Urban Design and Planning: In 100 years, Fort Worth will be dense and vertical. Freeways will be non existent. Neighborhoods like Walsh Ranch will be ruins. Is this a real possibility?
Dallas-Fort Worth among top cities for urban sprawl
2005年11月16日 · Los Angeles is the worst city for urban sprawl, followed by Washington/Baltimore; San Francisco Bay; New York City; and the Dallas-Fort Worth area to round out the top five. Elsewhere in Texas, the Houston-Galveston-Brazoria area is the 11th worst metropolitan area for sprawl and San Antonio is the 17th worst area.
How to educate all of FW about urban planning? - Urban Design …
2004年10月28日 · How to educate all of FW about urban planning? - posted in Urban Design and Planning: Assuming public unawareness about sprawl and alternatives to sprawl is a large factor contributing to Fort Worth's sprawling development patterns, how would you educate the public to increase awareness?What results would you hope to achieve from the campaign? (in the short …
Far North FW growth - City Issues - Fort Worth Forum
2012年2月21日 · Far North FW growth - posted in City Issues: Bill Hanna tackles the thorny problem of urban sprawl in this Star-Telegram article about people’s feeling of alienation from Fort Worth because they live so far north (in the Alliance area). I have mixed feelings about this: I sympathize with these people for having been lured to this area under false pretenses (I …
Will Urban Sprawl Survive to 2119 - Page 2 - Urban Design and …
2019年2月2日 · Page 2 of 2 - Will Urban Sprawl Survive to 2119 - posted in Urban Design and Planning: I dont think that the neighborhood (fill in the blank) will be coming back either, I was just trying to talk about what it would take for all of acres of housing to enable more livable walkability in the absence of bulldozing thousands of acres of single family homes.
Nighttime Lights | NASA Earthdata
VIIRS DNB operates in the visible to near-infrared portion of the spectrum: 400-900 nanometers (nm). This spectral range is ideal for exploring nighttime lights as many human-made light sources, including metal halide lamps and light-emitting diode (LED) lights, have spectral responses in this range.
Dr. Karen Seto - Earthdata
2017年6月9日 · These urban landscapes, characterized by large areas of impervious surfaces, contribute significantly to local and regional changes in climate (such as the creation of areas of elevated temperature called urban heat islands), hydrology, biodiversity, land use (agricultural vs. forested land), and biogeochemical cycles (such as the effects of ...
Urbanizing the Sprawl - Urban Design and Planning
2013年1月11日 · Urbanizing the Sprawl - posted in Urban Design and Planning: I made a post in the Modern Streetcar is Dead thread that didnt exactly seem to fit in with the topic of that discussion, so lets start a new thread. Heres the post:Magnolia Avenue is now a slower street with fewer traffic lanes and the neighborhood is *booming* since that change happened. I think …