The Hilliness of U.S. Cities.
What is a hilly city, and which cities are hilliest? This study outlines a basket of methods for quantifying the differential hilliness of U.S. cities. We rank the 100 largest cities in the contiguous United States, using a selection of eight methods to evaluate their comparative hilliness. We then...
| Publicado en: | Geographical Review Vol. 105; no. 4; pp. 581 - 601 |
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Oct2015
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