Fuzzy Urban Sets: Theory and Application to Desakota Regions in China

Eric J. Heikkila, Ti-yan Shen and Kai-zhong Yang

No 8617, Working Paper from USC Lusk Center for Real Estate

Abstract: 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 interdependent measures are derived: (i) extent of urbanization, (ii) level of fuzziness,and (iii) degree of entropy. The feasibility of the proposed method is demonstrated using remotesensing data for Ningbo, China.

Keywords: Fuzzy sets; Chinese Mortgage Market; urbanization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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