Evolution and entropy in the organization of urban street patterns

Annals of GIS

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-16

  Mohajeri, Nahid ^a   French, Jon R ^a   Batty, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

city growth; entropy measures; size distribution; street patterns; urban morphology

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN MORPHOLOGY; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN SYSTEM;

DUNDEE [SCOTLAND]; IRAN; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84873920592     PISSN: 19475683     EISSN: 19475691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19475683.2012.758175     Document Type: Article

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