Mapping block-level urban areas for all Chinese cities

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 96-113

  Long, Ying ^a,b   Shen, Yao ^c   Jin, Xiaobin ^d  

^a Beijing Institute of City Planning   (China)

^b Beijing Key Lab of Capital Spatial Planning and Studies   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Points of interest (POIs); Road network; Urban block; Vector cellular automata

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR AUTOMATON; MAPPING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN TRANSPORT; VECTOR AUTOREGRESSION;

CHINA;

EID: 84946944828     PISSN: 24694452     EISSN: 24694460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045608.2015.1095062     Document Type: Article

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