Head/tail breaks for visualization of city structure and dynamics

Cities

Volumn 43, Issue , 2015, Pages 69-77

  Jiang, Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Big data; Fractals; Ht index; Natural cities; Nighttime images; Social media

Indexed keywords

HUMAN SETTLEMENT; URBAN AREA; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84917677363     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2014.11.013     Document Type: Article

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