Dietzel, Charles; Oguz, Hakan; Hemphill, Jeffery J; … - In: Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 32 (2005) 2, pp. 231-246
The authors build on a recent development in urban geographic theory, providing evidence of an oscillatory behavior in spatiotemporal patterns of urban growth. With the aid of remotely sensed data, the spatial extent of urban areas in the Houston (USA) metropolitan region from 1974 to 2002 was...