Urban regions worldwide are increasingly facing the challenge of dealing with highly
dynamic metropolitan growth and, at the same time, institutional changes like …

Polycentric urban structures are important spatial development strategies in megacities;
however, they have decentralized morphologies and functional characteristics that …

Identifying the structure of a polycentric city is vital to various studies, such as urban sprawl
and population movement dynamics. This paper presents an efficient and reliable method …

The global urbanization has produced a number of metropolises with complex urban spatial
structures. Compared with monocentric cities, these metropolises typically have multiple …

The debate over metropolitan sprawl and its costs has been ongoing since the early 1970s
in the US To inform the debate, this study uses principal component analysis (PCA) and …

The way people and economic activities organize in space has been changing over time.
Improvements in communication technologies, large and growing movements of peopleand …

A shift from monocentric cities to increasingly polycentric urban regions has been widely
recognised in recent research literature. Although polycentricity in general refers to the …

Identifying changes in the spatial structure of cities is a prerequisite for the development and
validation of adequate planning strategies. Nevertheless, current methods of measurement …

Across the nation, the debate over metropolitan sprawl and its impacts continues decade
after decade. To elevate the debate, a decade ago, researchers developed …

In this article, we use local indicators of spatial association (LISA) and other spatial analysis
techniques to analyze the distribution of centers with high employment density within …