Citation Context

...lar emphasis on quantitative methods (Clifton, Ewing, Knaap, & Song, 2008; Dieleman & Wegener, 2004; Huang, Lu, & Sellers, 2007). Along with sustainability concerns, two other factors are also considered to have been essential to the most recent advances in quantitative analyses of urban patterns. These are the developments in geographical information systems and information technology; and the increasing quality and availability of spatially referenced data, notably with the development of remote sensing techniques (Clifton et al., 2008; Herold, Goldstein, & Clarke, 2003; Huang et al., 2007; Larkham, 2006). This issue is gaining further interest and importance as urban spatial patterns of development of European and North American cities appear to have been changing considerably during the past few decades (Beauregard, 2009; Kabisch & Haase, 2011; Turok & Mykhnenko, 2007). After a twentieth century marked by intense and widespread growth of urban areas, mainly led by industrialization and technological development and the consequent urban migration and extensive suburbanization, recent urban development trends anticipate more diversified trajectories for Western cities in the twenty-first centu...