Geographic Information Systems (GIS) play a pivotal role in the field of urban planning and management and provide better solutions for numerous urban problems. With GIS, one has the ability to better understand existing requirements of a city and its design to fulfill those needs.

This book contributes to developing scientific knowledge based on geospatial technologies among planners, researchers, scientists, professionals, students, and laymen and providing them with better understanding for urban planning and management at various levels. The book manifests the importance of GIS in better understanding of current urban challenges and provides new insights on how to apply GIS in urban planning. It also encourages the various stakeholders of society to participate in the decision-making process and assists planners and authorities to formulate suitable plans for sustainable urban growth of a region.

The book is divided into two parts. The first part describes thefundamental concepts of GIS and also deals with the advanced techniques of spatial planning. The second part addresses real-world case studies using various applications of GIS. The case studies include urban land-use changes, simulation of future urban growth, urban heat island, alternate landfill site selection and urban flood susceptibility mapping, among others. This book shows how to integrate GIS with remote sensing, geostatistics, artificial intelligence-machine learning techniques, and other cutting-edge technologies. Readers find this book to be an invaluable resource for understanding and solving problems relating to sustainable urban planning and management.

Includes fundamentals of GIS and real-world case studies relating to contemporary urban challenges in one book Presents case studies to showcase major urban issues and problems with their solutions by geospatial techniques Demonstrates GIS integration with remote sensing, geo-statistics and other modern technologies

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Mr. Malakar is a young researcher, GIS analyst, geographer, and socio-ecological demographer. He currently works as a doctoral researcher in the Department of Geography at the Central University of Haryana in India. He received his master's degree in geography from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. He has attended over 150 conferences, workshops, seminars, and webinars in his research area and has published research articles in national and international journals. He is a journal reviewer and a member of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA), Unequal World and International Society for Urban Health. His research interests include climate change and socio-ecological transformation, disaster and risk studies, and geospatial technology. Manish Kumar currently works as an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, School of Basic Sciences, Central University of Haryana, Mahendragarh, India. Earlier, from January 2016 to February 2020, he servedas an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Kalindi College, University of Delhi. Prior to that, from January 2009 to December 2014, he was a lecturer in the M.Sc. remote sensing and GIS course of Kumaun University, Nainital, India. He has also worked as a research associate in the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) project on "rurbanization". In addition, he has been a visiting faculty member at the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi. He holds a Ph.D. degree from Kumaun University and a postgraduate diploma in remote sensing and GIS from the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS) of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Dehradun. He is also a steering member of the International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Modeling Geographical Systems. He has published more than 25 research papers in various national and international Science Citation Index and Scopus-indexed journals. His special area of research interest includes the applicationof remote sensing and GIS in urban and regional planning, land use and land cover dynamics, and urban climate change, among others. Prof. Subhash Anand has been a professor of geography at the Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, since 2015. He has more than 25 years of experience in teaching and research, and he has authored and edited 7 books, including Water Science and Sustainability, Global Geographical Heritage, Geoparks and Geotourism and Urban Health Risk and Resilience in Asian Cities, all published by Springer. He is a Springer series editor of Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences. He has also published more than 70 research papers, articles, and chapters in various books and journals. He led the Indian delegation to Hiroshima University, Japan, under the Indo-Japan Joint Research Program. He has supervised 6 Ph.D. and 7 M.Phil. theses. He has traveled widely to participate in international conferences and lectures in many countries, and he is a vice-chair of the Commission on Geoheritage, International Geographical Union (IGU); an associate editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks (Elsevier); he is the treasurer of the governing body of Dyal Singh College. During his career, he has been honored with many prestigious awards. Dr. Kuzur is an assistant professor in the Staff Training and Research Institute of Distance Education (STRIDE) of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi. Prior to joining IGNOU, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Central University of Haryana. She has taught at the Women's College of the University of Calcutta; Nirmala College of the Ranchi University; and Shaheed Bhagat Singh Evening College of the University of Delhi. She has also worked as a research associate at the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID), New Delhi, and as a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for t

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Introduction of Geographic Information System.- Referencing and Coordinate Systems in GIS.- GIS Data Models.- Data Input in GIS.- Data Visualization and Output.- Spatial Data Analysis.- Non-spatial Data Management.- Applications of GIS in Urban Policy/Planning/Management.- Monitoring and Modelling of Urban Land Use Changes.- Simulating Future Urban Growth using Cellular Automata-Markov Chain Models.- Identification of Potential Sites for Housing Development Using GIS Based Multi-Criteria Evaluation Technique.- Urban Green Space Analysis and Potential Site Selection for Green Space Expansion.- A Multi-Criteria Decision Making for Alternative Landfill Site Selections Using Fuzzy TOPSIS Approach.- Urban Flood Susceptibility Modelling of Srinagar using Novel Fuzzy Multi-Layer Perceptron Neural Network (Fuzzy MLPNN).- Assessment, Mapping and prediction of Urban Heat Island.