Urban growth pattern classification comprises three types of expansion, namely horizontal or scattered
expansion, intensive growth, and smart growth. This study is a practical investigation focusing on the
development and assessment of the physical transformations occ
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Urban growth pattern classification comprises three types of expansion, namely horizontal or scattered
expansion, intensive growth, and smart growth. This study is a practical investigation focusing on the
development and assessment of the physical transformations occurring in Yazd City. The research has
utilized multi-temporal Landsat satellite images from 1996, 2016, and Ester satellite 2006. The supervised
classification method with the most similarity has been employed to analyse the levels of green space,
urban built space, road, and barren land and track their changes. The study revealed that the size of the
city did not change between 1996 and 2016, but the population density increased. However, during the
same period, there was a significant 43.6% reduction in the amount of green space. According to the
graph, there has been a consistent rise in urban development from 1996 to 2016. Throughout the duration
of the construction period, there has been a 1.65-fold expansion in the urban area, leading to a reduction of
32% in the barren land within Yazd city. The collective evidence of modifications in Yazd city, both in
terms of physical alterations and spatial expansion, indicates that the utilization of barren land within the
urban setting and the elimination of gardens and reduction in green areas have led to an increase in urban
spaces by a factor of 1.65.
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