Villages in the city: Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in rurality and urbanity in Bangalore, India

Land

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Nagendra, Harini ^a   Unnikrishnan, Hita ^a   Sen, Sreerupa ^a  

^a ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (India)

Author keywords

Rurality; Urban history; Urban rural gradient; Urbanicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939889599     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2073445X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/land3010001     Document Type: Article

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