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This research aims to analyze urban expansion patterns in Uzbekistan cities post-2016 reforms, focusing on heritage governance effects.

Planning reform and heritage governance in Uzbekistan: a spatial analysis of urban expansion (2005–2025)

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Randomized trial maps urban expansion in Uzbekistan, indicating planning needs for sustainable growth.

This research aims to analyze urban expansion patterns in Uzbekistan cities post-2016 reforms, focusing on heritage governance effects.
Conducted multi-decadal GIS analysis of Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, and Khiva from 2005 to 2025.
Applied indicators for compactness, fragmentation, land-use efficiency, and ring-growth orientation.
Mapped urban growth trajectories influenced by reform and heritage governance.
Identified reform-accelerated corridor expansion in Tashkent with significant land consumption.
Observed heritage-constrained peri-urban growth in UNESCO-listed cities.
Found that land consumption outpaces demographic changes across all studied cities.

Ahn et al. (2026) studied this question.

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