Understanding urban China with open data

Cities

Volumn 47, Issue , 2015, Pages 53-61

  Liu, Xingjian ^a   Song, Yan ^b   Wu, Kang ^c   Wang, Jianghao ^d   Li, Dong ^e   Long, Ying ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c CAPITAL UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^e China Academy of Urban Planning and Design   (China)

^f Beijing Institute of City Planning   (China)

Author keywords

China; Open data; Urban analytics

Indexed keywords

DATA; URBAN GEOGRAPHY; URBAN SOCIETY; URBANIZATION;

CHINA;

EID: 84939416670     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2015.03.006     Document Type: Article

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