Decision making on allocating urban green spaces based upon spatially-varying relationships between urban green spaces and urban compaction degree

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 13399-13415

  Chang, Hsueh Sheng ^a   Chen, Tzu Ling ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Compact city; Degree of urban compaction; Geographically weighted regression (GWR); Urban green spaces (UGS)

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; GREENSPACE; MAPPING METHOD; METROPOLITAN AREA; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; URBAN GEOGRAPHY; URBAN PLANNING;

TAIPEI; TAIWAN;

EID: 84949255678     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su71013399     Document Type: Article

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