Revealing the Driving Forces of Mid-Cities Urban Growth Patterns Using Spatial Modeling: a Case Study of Los Ángeles, Chile

Revealing the Driving Forces of Mid-Cities Urban Growth Patterns Using Spatial Modeling: a Case Study of Los Ángeles, Chile

City growth and changes in land-use patterns cause various important social and environmental impacts. To understand the spatial and temporal dynamics of these processes, the factors that drive urban development must be identified and analyzed, especially those factors that can be used to predict fu...

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Main Authors: Mauricio I. Aguayo, Thorsten Wiegand, Gerardo D. Azócar, Kerstin Wiegand, Claudia E. Vega
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Resilience Alliance 2007-06-01
Series:Ecology and Society
Subjects:
land-use change
logistic regression
Los Ángeles
Chile
mid-cities
spatially explicit modeling
urban growth patterns
Online Access:http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss1/art13/

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http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss1/art13/

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