Methods for specifying spatial boundaries of cities in the world: The impacts of delineation methods on city sustainability indices

The purpose of this paper is to analyze how different definitions and methods for delineating the spatial boundaries of cities have an impact on the values of city sustainability indicators. It is necessary to distinguish the inside of cities from the outside when calculating the values of sustainab...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Science of the total environment 2017-08, Vol.592, p.345-356
Hauptverfasser:	Uchiyama, Yuta, Mori, Koichiro
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	City City sustainability index Landcover LandScan population grid Night-time light Urban area
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