Viewing urban decay from the sky: A multi-scale analysis of residential vacancy in a shrinking U.S. city

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 141, Issue , 2015, Pages 88-99

  Deng, Chengbin ^a   Ma, Junjie ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GIS; Remote sensing; Shrinking cities; Urban vacancy

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; ECOSYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOUSING; POPULATION STATISTICS; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS; REMOTE SENSING;

COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHIC SHIFTS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT; MULTI SCALE ANALYSIS; OPTIMAL NEIGHBORHOODS; PREDICTIVE MODELING; SHRINKING CITY;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GIS; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBAN-RURAL MIGRATION;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84929581897     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2015.05.002     Document Type: Article

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