GIS-based Accessibility Analysis Using Suitable Land for Public Parks in Larkana City Pakistan

Land-use plays an important role in social, cultural and physical development of human beings. A variety of recreational activities creates conducive living environment for humans. Accessibility is significant for land-use planning and use of suitable land for development. Uncontrolled expansion a...

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Main Author: Matori, A.N
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Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas
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Published: Maxwell Science Publication 2011
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G Geography (General)
GE Environmental Sciences
TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
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spelling utp-eprints.85112017-03-20T02:43:43Z GIS-based Accessibility Analysis Using Suitable Land for Public Parks in Larkana City Pakistan Matori, A.N G Geography (General) GE Environmental Sciences TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Land-use plays an important role in social, cultural and physical development of human beings. A variety of recreational activities creates conducive living environment for humans. Accessibility is significant for land-use planning and use of suitable land for development. Uncontrolled expansion and unauthorized development has created serious urban environmental problems due to urban facilities extension. This fact affects the social behavior and physical development of residents. The aim of this study is to get a better urban environmental benefits and accessibility to parks by the inhabitants of the Larkana city. In finding the suitable land, geographic information system was adopted. Weighted model was integrated in GIS by using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) in finding the suitable land. Based on suitability map, the Euclidean-allocation model was applied to determine the accessibility using GIS spatial analysis function of the ArcGIS software. The results of this study revealed that it is not enough only finding suitable land for allocation of facilities, whilst neglecting how these facilities should be accessed. Therefore, GIS spatial analysis technique is the viable method to analyze service area’s parks accessibility facilities Maxwell Science Publication 2011-06-25 Citation Index Journal PeerReviewed application/pdf http://eprints.utp.edu.my/8511/1/Paper_published%2C_Maxwell%2C2011.pdf Matori, A.N (2011) GIS-based Accessibility Analysis Using Suitable Land for Public Parks in Larkana City Pakistan. [Citation Index Journal] http://eprints.utp.edu.my/8511/
institution Universiti Teknologi Petronas
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topic G Geography (General)
GE Environmental Sciences
TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
spellingShingle G Geography (General)
GE Environmental Sciences
TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Matori, A.N
GIS-based Accessibility Analysis Using Suitable Land for Public Parks in Larkana City Pakistan
description Land-use plays an important role in social, cultural and physical development of human beings. A variety of recreational activities creates conducive living environment for humans. Accessibility is significant for land-use planning and use of suitable land for development. Uncontrolled expansion and unauthorized development has created serious urban environmental problems due to urban facilities extension. This fact affects the social behavior and physical development of residents. The aim of this study is to get a better urban environmental benefits and accessibility to parks by the inhabitants of the Larkana city. In finding the suitable land, geographic information system was adopted. Weighted model was integrated in GIS by using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) in finding the suitable land. Based on suitability map, the Euclidean-allocation model was applied to determine the accessibility using GIS spatial analysis function of the ArcGIS software. The results of this study revealed that it is not enough only finding suitable land for allocation of facilities, whilst neglecting how these facilities should be accessed. Therefore, GIS spatial analysis technique is the viable method to analyze service area’s parks accessibility facilities
format Citation Index Journal
author Matori, A.N
author_sort Matori, A.N
title GIS-based Accessibility Analysis Using Suitable Land for Public Parks in Larkana City Pakistan
title_short GIS-based Accessibility Analysis Using Suitable Land for Public Parks in Larkana City Pakistan
title_full GIS-based Accessibility Analysis Using Suitable Land for Public Parks in Larkana City Pakistan
title_fullStr GIS-based Accessibility Analysis Using Suitable Land for Public Parks in Larkana City Pakistan
title_full_unstemmed GIS-based Accessibility Analysis Using Suitable Land for Public Parks in Larkana City Pakistan
title_sort gis-based accessibility analysis using suitable land for public parks in larkana city pakistan
publisher Maxwell Science Publication
publishDate 2011
url http://eprints.utp.edu.my/8511/1/Paper_published%2C_Maxwell%2C2011.pdf
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