Measuring patterns of urban development: New intelligence for the war on sprawl

Local Environment

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 239-257

  Knaap, Gerrit Jan ^a   Song, Yan ^b   Nedovic Budic, Zorica ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; LAND USE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; METROPOLITAN AREA; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247628362     PISSN: 13549839     EISSN: 14696711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13549830601183412     Document Type: Article

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