Delimitating the Natural City with Points of Interests Based on Service Area and Maximum Entropy Method

2019-07-04 Hits:

Journal:Entropy

Key Words:natural city; maximum entropy method; Reilly’s Law; uncertainty problems; head/tail breaks; points

Abstract:The natural city, which is essential to understand urban physical scale and identify urban sprawling in urban studies, represents the urban functional boundaries of the city defined by human activities rather than the administrative boundaries. Most studies tend to utilize physical environment data such as street networks and remote sensing data to delimitate the natural city, however, such data may not match the real distribution of human activity density in the new cities or even ghost cities in China. This paper suggests aggregating the natural city boundary from the service area polygons o

Indexed by:Journal paper

Discipline:Engineering

Document Type:J

Number of Words:6000

Translation or Not:no

Date of Publication:2019-05-02

Included Journals:SSCI、SCI

Date of Publication:2019-05-02