Urban growth and spatial restructuring patterns: The case of Yangtze River Delta Region, China

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 515-539

  Wang, Lei ^a   Wong, Cecilia ^b   Duan, Xuejun ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Administrative levels; city regions; spatial autocorrelations; spatial restructuring; urban growth; Yangtze River Delta Region

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE FRAMEWORK; AUTOCORRELATION; GIS; GROWTH RATE; LAND CLASSIFICATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; URBAN GROWTH; URBANIZATION;

CHINA; YANGTZE DELTA;

EID: 84967240000     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: 14723417     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265813515618556     Document Type: Article

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