Crowdsourcing urban form and function

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 720-741

  Crooks, Andrew ^a   Pfoser, Dieter ^a   Jenkins, Andrew ^a   Croitoru, Arie ^a   Stefanidis, Anthony ^a   Smith, Duncan ^b   Karagiorgou, Sophia ^c   Efentakis, Alexandros ^d   Lamprianidis, George ^d  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^d INSTITUTE FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS   (Greece)

Author keywords

crowdsourcing; form and function; GIS; social media; urban morphology

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; GIS; MONITORING; URBAN AREA; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN MORPHOLOGY; URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 84930574303     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2014.977905     Document Type: Article

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