@article{(Open Science Index):https://publications.waset.org/pdf/16602,
	  title     = {Measuring of Urban Sustainability in Town Planners Practice},
	  author    = {J. Zagorskas and  I. Veteikyte},
	  country	= {},
	  institution	= {},
	  abstract     = {Physical urban form is recognized to be the media for
human transactions. It directly influences the travel demand of people
in a specific urban area and the amount of energy used for
transportation. Distorted, sprawling form often creates sustainability
problems in urban areas. It is declared in EU strategic planning
documents that compact urban form and mixed land use pattern must
be given the main focus to achieve better sustainability in urban
areas, but the methods to measure and compare these characteristics
are still not clear.
This paper presents the simple methods to measure the spatial
characteristics of urban form by analyzing the location and
distribution of objects in an urban environment. The extended CA
(cellular automata) model is used to simulate urban development
scenarios.
},
	    journal   = {International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences},
	  volume    = {7},
	  number    = {9},
	  year      = {2013},
	  pages     = {2498 - 2506},
	  ee        = {https://publications.waset.org/pdf/16602},
	  url   	= {https://publications.waset.org/vol/81},
	  bibsource = {https://publications.waset.org/},
	  issn  	= {eISSN: 1307-6892},
	  publisher = {World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology},
	  index 	= {Open Science Index 81, 2013},
	}