Quantitative diagnoses and comprehensive evaluations of the rationality of Chinese urban development patterns

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 3859-388

  Fang, Chuanglin ^a   Wang, Zhenbo ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

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

Author keywords

China; Functional structure; Rationality diagnosis; Scale structure; Spatial structure; Urban system

Indexed keywords

GIS; HISTORICAL RECORD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATIONALIZATION; SPATIAL PLANNING; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN ECONOMY; URBANIZATION;

CHINA;

EID: 84928958210     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su7043859     Document Type: Article

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