Measuring sprawl in large Chinese cities along the Yangtze River via combined single and multidimensional metrics

Habitat International

Volumn 57, Issue , 2016, Pages 43-52

  Yue, Wenze ^a   Zhang, Linlin ^a   Liu, Yong ^b  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cross city study; Multidimensional measurement; Nighttime light data; Single indicator measurement; Urban sprawl; Yangtze River Economic Belt

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN AREA; URBAN POLICY;

CHINA; YANGTZE RIVER;

EID: 84976386669     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2016.06.009     Document Type: Article

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