Lu, Shasha; Guan, Xingliang; He, Chao; Zhang, Jiali - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 8, pp. 4723-4748
Relatively little attention has been paid to examining the spatial expansion features of cities at various tiers at the regional level in China, especially those located in central and western regions of the country. Based on Landsat satellite imagery from four years—1980, 1990, 2000, and...