Development of a composite index of urban compactness for land use modelling applications

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 103, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 303-317

  Mubareka, Sarah ^a   Koomen, Eric ^b   Estreguil, Christine ^a   Lavalle, Carlo ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

EuClueScanner; Large urban zones; Mathematical morphology; Scenarios; Spatial indicators; Urbanisation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EXPANSION; LAND USE; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EUCLUESCANNER; SCENARIOS; SPATIAL INDICATORS; URBAN ZONES; URBANISATION;

URBAN GROWTH;

BASELINE CONDITIONS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EUROPEAN UNION; LAND USE PLANNING; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBANIZATION;

EID: 80054869387     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.08.012     Document Type: Article

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