Have a look at the following publications

Dadhich, A. P., Goyal, R., & Dadhich, P. N. (2017). AN ASSESSMENT OF URBAN SPACE EXPANSION AND ITS IMPACT ON AIR QUALITY USING GEOSPATIAL APPROACH. Journal of Urban and Environmental Engineering (JUEE), 11(1).

Srivastava, P. K., Suman, S., & Pandey, S. (2016). Monitoring Changes in Urban Cover Using Landsat Satellite Images and Demographical Information. Environmental Issues Surrounding Human Overpopulation, 89.

Ahlawat, J. (2017). Land Use Change Detection Analyses by using Multi-temporal Satellite Imageries. International Journal of Current Trends in Science and Technology, 7(8).

Oyugi, M. O., Odenyo, V. A., & Karanja, F. N. (2017). The Implications of Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics on the Environmental Quality of Nairobi City, Kenya. American Journal of Geographic Information System, 6(3), 111-127.

Lehner, A., Kraus, V., & Steinnocher, K. (2016). URBAN GROWTH SCENARIOS OF A FUTURE MEGA CITY: CASE STUDY AHMEDABAD. ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing & Spatial Information Sciences, 3(2).

Khan, A. A., Arshad, S., & Mohsin, M. (2014). Population growth and its impact on urban expansion: A case study of Bahawalpur, Pakistan. Universal Journal of Geoscience, 2(8), 229-241.

Larson, Timothy; Henderson, Sarah B.; Brauer, Michael Mobile Monitoring of Particle Light Absorption Coefficient in an Urban Area as a Basis for Land Use Regression American Chemical Society Environmental Science & Technology Year:2009 Month:07 Day: Volume:43 Issue:13 First page:4672 Last page:4678

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230738894_Peri-Urban_to_Urban_Landscape_Patterns_Elucidation_through_Spatial_Metrics

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229826816_Empirical_patterns_of_the_influence_of_Spatial_Resolution_of_Remote_Sensing_Data_on_Landscape_Metrics