The definition and identification of urban agglomerations

Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1059-1070

  Wang, Li ^a   Deng, Yu ^b,c   Niu, Wenyuan ^d,e  

^a NDRC   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^e INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

China; Definition standard; Identification system; Urban agglomeration

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; DATA SET; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK; URBAN AREA; URBAN ECONOMY;

CHINA;

EID: 84887631382     PISSN: 03755444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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