Simulating Urban Form and Energy Consumption in the Pearl River Delta Under Different Development Strategies

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1567-1585

  Chen, Yimin ^a   Li, Xia ^a   Wang, Shujie ^a   Liu, Xiaoping ^a   Ai, Bin ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

cellular automata; energy consumption; support vector regression; urban forms

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY USE; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

CHINA; GUANGDONG; ZHUJIANG DELTA;

EID: 84886405230     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2012.740360     Document Type: Article

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