Comprehensive carrying capacity of the urban agglomeration in the Yangtze River Delta, China

Habitat International

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 462-470

  Liu, Huimin ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cluster; Comprehensive carrying capacity; Spatial differentiation; Time series global factor analysis; Urban agglomeration

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CARRYING CAPACITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FACTOR ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBAN POLICY;

CHINA; YANGTZE DELTA;

EID: 84862857451     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2012.05.003     Document Type: Article

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