Measuring urban sprawl in Beijing with geo-spatial indices

Journal of Geographical Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 469-478

  Jiang, Fang ^a,b   Liu, Shenghe ^a   Yuan, Hong ^a,b   Zhang, Qing ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Beijing; Geo spatial indices; Measurement; Urban sprawl

Indexed keywords

EID: 36049017106     PISSN: 1009637X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11442-007-0469-z     Document Type: Article

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