Measuring spatial structure of China's megaregions

Journal of Urban Planning and Development

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Yang, Jiawen ^a   Song, Ge ^b   Lin, Jian ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Polycentric development; Regional planning; Spatial pattern; Statistical measures

Indexed keywords

CIVIL ENGINEERING; URBAN PLANNING;

CHINA; DIRECTIONAL DISTRIBUTIONS; POLICY INSTRUMENTS; POLYCENTRIC DEVELOPMENT; SPATIAL DEVELOPMENT; SPATIAL PATTERNS; STANDARD DEVIATIONAL ELLIPSE; STATISTICAL MEASURES;

REGIONAL PLANNING;

REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; REGIONAL PLANNING; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN ECONOMY; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POLICY; URBANIZATION;

CHINA;

EID: 84929630346     PISSN: 07339488     EISSN: 19435444     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000207     Document Type: Article

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