A study on the spatial and temporal evolution of urban shrinkage and its influencing factors from a multidimensional perspective: A case study of resource-based cities in China.

PLoS One · 2021 · PMC8516219 · PMID 34648573

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And the average of all dimensions from 2014–2018 declined to varying degrees over the initial period levels, while the coefficient of variation revealed an increasing trend, indicating that the development of resource-based cities in China generally occurred slowly and the development gap between cities widened.

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