Exploring land use policy scenarios with the use of a cellular automata-based model: urban sprawl containment and sustainable development in Thessaloniki

Geocarto International

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1033-1051

  Lagarias, Apostolos ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF COMPUTER SCIENCE   (Greece)

Author keywords

cellular automata; land use policy; scenarios; sprawl; Thessaloniki

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATON; LAND USE PLANNING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN GROWTH; URBAN PLANNING; ZONING POLICY;

CENTRAL MACEDONIA; GREECE; THESSALONIKI [CENTRAL MACEDONIA]; THESSALONIKI [THESSALONIKI (DPR)];

EID: 84940792945     PISSN: 10106049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2015.1013066     Document Type: Article

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