Geospatial Analysis and Modelling of Urban Structure and Dynamics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jiang, Bin (Editor), Yao, Xiaobai (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: GeoJournal Library, 99
• Subjects: Geography.; Geophysics.; Geographical information systems.; Urban geography.; Architecture.; Urban planning.; City planning.; Human geography.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Geophysics/Geodesy.; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns).; Cities, Countries, Regions.; Human Geography.; Urbanism.

The increasingly urbanized world has created various problems of environment, climate, consumption of resources, and public health, which are closely linked to the side-effects of urbanization such as sprawl, congestion, housing affordability and loss of open space. Fundamental to the urban problems...