View No. 21 (2020): Pearl River Delta: Scales, Times, Domains
No. 21 (2020)
Pearl River Delta: Scales, Times, Domains

Liang Xiong

218 Pages

ISBN 978-94-6366-341-0

Published: 2020-12-17

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  • Pearl River Delta: Scales, Times, Domains A Mapping Method for the Exploration of Rapidly Urbanizing Deltas

    Liang Xiong
    1-218

    An implemented design of an urban area not only imposes long-term conditions on societal processes, but also on natural processes. The urbanization of the Pearl River Delta (PRD) is a highly dynamic process that has interfered with many natural and artificial processes in the complex system. The involved human and natural processes, each with their own scale and speed of change, compose the complex urban delta landscape. The dominance of the efficiency-oriented fast urbanization process...