Abstract

Carrying Capacity: A New Model For Mature Cities
Track: Urban and Regional Planning
Authors: Elaine Dennehy, Raha Pouladi, Carmen Oprea, John Huggins

Effective municipal land use planning requires the analysis of incorporated areas according to an overall capacity for development. Subsequently, assessing the development suitability of a given area entails the examination of a range of factors, and the distillation of that information into a unique score.

The model offers a raster-based quantitative methodology for the classification and scoring of features relative to their overall influence on an area’s improvement capacity.