Forty years of urban expansion in Beijing: What is the relative importance of physical, socioeconomic, and neighborhood factors?

Applied Geography

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-10

  Li, Xiaoma ^a   Zhou, Weiqi ^a   Ouyang, Zhiyun ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Beijing; Driving factor; Multi temporal remote sensing; Spatial modeling; Temporal dynamics

Indexed keywords

NEIGHBORHOOD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN PLANNING; URBANIZATION;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84870865353     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2012.11.004     Document Type: Article

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