The rapid growth of cities worldwide is a phenomenon that has generated numerous debates about the effects it could have on the environment and society. An issue that has not been well addressed in the literature is the ...

Chile's economic development model changed drastically in 1973. Public policy liberalization ended and the market became the principal entity for regulating growth, including urban growth. The implementation of this new ...

Nowadays, satellite images are a great source of exhaustive, accurate, periodic, and easily updated information on urban areas, and one of the most significant research topics in geographical information technologies is ...

Exploring computational intelligence, geographic information systems and statistical information, a creative and innovative model for urban evolution is presented in this paper. The proposed model employs fuzzy logic and ...

In this paper, we analyze the rural-urban migration phenomenon as it is usually observed in economies which are in the early stages of industrialization. The analysis is conducted by means of a statistical mechanics approach ...

In this paper, we analyze the rural-urban migration phenomenon as it is usually observed in economies which are in the early stages of industrialization. The analysis is conducted by means of a statistical mechanics approach ...