The emergence of urban land use patterns driven by dispersion and aggregation mechanisms.

We employ a cellular-automata to reconstruct the land use patterns of cities that we characterize by two measures of spatial heterogeneity: (a) a variant of spatial entropy, which measures the spread of residential, business, and industrial activity sectors, and (b) an index of dissimilarity, which...

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Main Authors: James Decraene, Christopher Monterola, Gary Kee Khoon Lee, Terence Gih Guang Hung, Michael Batty
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3873928?pdf=render