Mining the Urban Sprawl Pattern: A Case Study on Sunan, China

China's urbanization is going into a fast development stage. This paper focuses on the recent evolution of an urbanized area - Sunan, the southern part of Jiangsu province in the Yangtze River Delta in China - by means of complementary approaches, especially different fractal and autocorrelatio...

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Published inSensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 8; no. 10; pp. 6371 - 6395
Main Authors Ma, Ronghua, Gu, Chaolin, Pu, Yingxia, Ma, Xiaodong
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland MDPI AG 01.10.2008
Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
Subjects
Case studies
China
Fractal dimension
Fractals
Land use
Morphology
Rivers
Sensors
Spatial autocorrelation
Sunan
Towns
Urban areas
Urban sprawl pattern
Urbanization
Yangtze River Delta
China
INW, China, People's Rep., Jiangsu Prov
China, People's Rep., Changjiang R
Sunan
Urban sprawl pattern
Fractal dimension
Spatial autocorrelation
China
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Summary:China's urbanization is going into a fast development stage. This paper focuses on the recent evolution of an urbanized area - Sunan, the southern part of Jiangsu province in the Yangtze River Delta in China - by means of complementary approaches, especially different fractal and autocorrelation measures. The research shows that Sunan's urban clusters are becoming more and more homogenous and compact and are growing up along the important transportation axes. The enriching discussion of the findings establishes the links between the morphology of urban sprawl and recent socio-economic changes in China.
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ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s8106371