GIS-based urban modelling: Practices, problems, and prospects

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 651-671

  Su, Daniel Z ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GIS; MODELING; URBAN PLANNING;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER PROGRAMS AND PROGRAMMING; CRITIQUE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMICS; EVALUATION; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; GEOGRAPHY; INFORMATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION; RESEARCH; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TECHNOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WORLD;

COMPUTER PROGRAMS AND PROGRAMMING; CRITIQUE; ECONOMIC FACTORS; GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS; INFORMATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TECHNOLOGY; URBAN SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WORLD;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; EVALUATION STUDIES; GEOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION; RESEARCH; SOFTWARE; TECHNOLOGY; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0032426044     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/136588198241581     Document Type: Article

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