Driving factors of urban sprawl in Giza governorate of the Greater Cairo Metropolitan Region using a logistic regression model

International Journal of Urban Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 206-225

  Osman, Taher ^a,b   Divigalpitiya, Prasanna ^a   Arima, Takafumi ^c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Cairo University Campus   (Egypt)

^c SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

driving factors; GCMR; logistic regression; Urban sprawl

Indexed keywords

EID: 84964539498     PISSN: 12265934     EISSN: 21616779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/12265934.2016.1162728     Document Type: Article

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