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The paper made a preliminary study on the spatial structure of urban systems which take Shenyang, Changchun and Harbin as centers respectively in northeast China. A law is found that the spatial stracture becomes gradually loose while the level of aggregation tends to rise from the south to the north based on the measurement and calculation of fractal dimension and fractal structure factor. The author discussed how the spatial patterns formed and lastly put forward suggestions to improve the supervision of the urban systems in northeast China.
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Liu, J. A fractal study on urban system in northeast China. Chin. Geograph.Sc. 6, 272–281 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11769-996-0029-y
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11769-996-0029-y