The Size Distribution, Scaling Properties and Spatial Organization of Urban Clusters: A Global and Regional Percolation Perspective

The Size Distribution, Scaling Properties and Spatial Organization of Urban Clusters: A Global and Regional Percolation Perspective

Human development has far-reaching impacts on the surface of the globe. The transformation of natural land cover occurs in different forms, and urban growth is one of the most eminent transformative processes. We analyze global land cover data and extract cities as defined by maximally connected urb...

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Main Authors: Till Fluschnik, Steffen Kriewald, Anselmo García Cantú Ros, Bin Zhou, Dominik E. Reusser, Jürgen P. Kropp, Diego Rybski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-07-01
Series:ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Subjects:
Zipf’s law
city clusters
percolation
Taylor’s law
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/5/7/110

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