Distributions of population and employment and evolution of spatial structures in the Beijing Metropolitan Area

Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 829-840

  Sun, Tieshan ^a   Wang, Lanlan ^b   Li, Guoping ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Beijing Metropolitan Area; Distributions of population and employment; Polycentricity; Urban spatial structure

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CENTRALIZATION; DECENTRALIZATION; EMPLOYMENT; METROPOLITAN AREA; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBURBAN AREA; SUBURBANIZATION; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN POPULATION;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84863531772     PISSN: 03755444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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