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T1  - Urban expansion in Zanzibar City, Tanzania : Analyzing quantity, spatial patterns and effects of alternative planning approaches 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/323846 
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A1  - Kukkonen, Markus O.; Muhammad, Muhammad J.; Käyhkö, Niina; Luoto, Miska 
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Y1  - 2018 
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AB  - Rapid urbanization and urban area expansion of sub-Saharan Africa are megatrends of the 21st century. Addressing environmental and social problems related to these megatrends requires faster and more efficient urban planning that is based on measured information of the expansion patterns. Urban growth prediction models (UGPMs) provide tools for generating such information by predicting future urban expansion patterns and allowing testing of alternative planning scenarios. We created an UGPM for ... 
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KW  - Urban expansion; Urban growth; Urban Growth Prediction Models; Urban planning; Spatial modeling; Generalized additive model; GAM; Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa; Zanzibar; Stone Town; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELS; LAND-USE; DEVELOPING-COUNTRIES; LOGISTIC-REGRESSION; CLIMATE-CHANGE; GROWTH; CITIES; PROJECTIONS; POPULATION; VALIDATION; 1172 Environmental sciences 
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