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Annals of GIS

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 135-148

  Sarkar, Chinmoy ^a   Webster, Chris ^a   Gallacher, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

health niche; healthy city; sDNA; UK Biobank; UKBUMP; urban morphometrics

Indexed keywords

LIFESTYLE; MORPHOMETRY; NETWORK ANALYSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL NETWORK; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIAL VARIATION; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; URBAN PLANNING;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84929844803     PISSN: 19475683     EISSN: 19475691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19475683.2015.1027791     Document Type: Article

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