A novel indictor for assessing the spatial sustainability of cities in developing countries - a case study of xi'an city

Advanced Materials Research

Volumn 616-618, Issue , 2013, Pages 1335-1342

  Ding, Xiaohui ^a   Zhang, Shuoxin ^b   Zhong, Weizhou ^a   Jiang, Yu ^c  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c XI'AN UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Compact coefficient of urban area; Remote sensing; Urban sprawl; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ACROSS TIME; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SOCIAL-ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; SPATIAL DYNAMICS; SPATIAL SCALE; URBAN AREAS; URBAN EXPANSION; URBAN SPRAWL; URBANIZATION;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECOLOGY; PLANNING; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH; URBAN GROWTH;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84871868365     PISSN: 10226680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.616-618.1335     Document Type: Conference Paper

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