Spatio-Temporal Urban Growth Patterns In The Colombo Urban Fringe, Sri Lanka

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dc.contributor.authorWeerakoon, Katupulle Gedera Padma Kumari
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-29T01:23:35Z
dc.date.available2019-08-29T01:23:35Z
dc.date.issued2017-08
dc.description.abstractRapid urbanisation and urban growth, in particular, in the developing world require a scientific understanding of spatio-temporal urban growth patterns. This knowledge is highly essential for sustainable land management and urban development planning. Modern GIS technologies have opened up great opportunities in monitoring and managing fast urban growth. However, these techniques have some limitations in decision making for sustainable development. Spatio-temporal urban growth occurs due to changes of the main urban system comprising physical, socio-economic, and environmental subsystems. With changes of the driving factors in each subsystem, directly influencing the main urban system. Therefore, analysing the spatio-temporal urban growth by amalgamating driving factors that exist in three different subsystems into one platform is vital and this research contributes to it theoretically. Indistinct past growth trends, lack of control measures and absence of knowledge about past growth drivers in the Colombo urban fringe are research gaps that exist in Sri Lankan urban studies. This research aims to address this research gap by analysing its spatio-temporal growth pattern. To accomplish this, the research framed three objectives. The first objective focused on analysing and reviewing past urban growth in the Colombo district in order to identify the Colombo urban fringe. Expert opinions, historical records, and field surveys were used to collect data for this purpose. GIS based spatial pattern analysis, land use structure change analysis and urban gradient analysis were used as analysis methods. The second objective focused on developing a conceptual framework for GIS modelling. Expert opinions, residentsā€˜ views, and field data were used to derive driving factors linked with three different subsystems.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/8722
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversiti Sains Malaysiaen_US
dc.subjectSpatio-temporal urban growth patternsen_US
dc.subjectin the Colombo urban fringeen_US
dc.titleSpatio-Temporal Urban Growth Patterns In The Colombo Urban Fringe, Sri Lankaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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