Heikkila, Eric J.; Shen, Ti-yan; Yang, Kai-zhong - Lusk Center for Real Estate, Marshall School of Business - 2003
This paper outlines a method for using the mathematics of fuzzy sets that is well suited tomeasure and characterize peri-urbanizing ("desakota") systems typical of China, Southeast Asia,and other areas experiencing rapid urbanization. Drawing on Kosko's "fuzzy hypercube", threedistinct but...