The spatial restructuring of population in metropolitan Beijing: Toward polycentricity in the post-reform era

Urban Geography

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 779-802

  Feng, Jian ^a   Wang, Fahui ^b   Zhou, Yixing ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beijing; Polycentric urban form; Population density functions; Suburbanization

Indexed keywords

LAND USE; METROPOLITAN AREA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REFORM PROCESS; RELOCATION; SUBURBANIZATION; URBAN GEOGRAPHY;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 73449109150     PISSN: 02723638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.30.7.779     Document Type: Article

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