Implementing Sustainable Urbanization Development Using Geospatial Approach

Abstract

There are many factors that contribute to urbanization such as natural increase in population and migration from rural to urban areas. Failure to regulate sustainable urban growth management will arise significant issues for instances depletion of natural resources, urban sprawl, and environmental pollution. This paper is geared towards investigating and mapping land use land cover (LULC) changes in Iskandar Malaysia, specifically in Iskandar Puteri and western gate development. The satellite images from the Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) and Sentinel 2A for the year of 2007 and 2017 were deployed in the process of quantification of changes detection by using the Supervised Classification technique. Then, the magnitude of the changes was determined. IDRISI Terrset software was used in order to predict the future expansion of the study area until 2030. Finally, this paper proposed the delineation of urban growth limit as a sustainable strategy to direct further geographical development. The modelling of urban growth limit was based on the socio-economic and bio-physical factors. The findings and analysis in this paper have proven how prominent geospatial technology can be deployed in implementing sustainable development. The generated results have important policy implication for urban planners, stakeholders, and industrial players.