Evaluating cities' vitality and identifying ghost cities in China with emerging geographical data

Cities

Volumn 63, Issue , 2017, Pages 98-109

  Jin, Xiaobin ^a   Long, Ying ^a,b   Sun, Wei ^a   Lu, Yuying ^a   Yang, Xuhong ^a   Tang, Jingxian ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Points of interest; Residential development; Road junction; Social network; Urban vitality

Indexed keywords

POLICY APPROACH; RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT; ROAD; SOCIAL NETWORK; URBAN AREA; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

CHINA;

EID: 85010383369     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2017.01.002     Document Type: Article

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