Measuring urban form: Is portland winning the war on sprawl?

Journal of the American Planning Association

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 210-225

  Song, Yan ^a   Knaap, Gerrit Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT CONTROL; MEASUREMENT METHOD; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN MORPHOLOGY;

NORTH AMERICA; OREGON; PORTLAND [OREGON]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 2442700168     PISSN: 01944363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01944360408976371     Document Type: Article

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