Lilongwe Metropolitan Area
This chapter traces the origin and brief history of Lilongwe, the capital of Malawi in southern Africa. Its primacy in the urban landscape of the country is assessed by examining the urban land use/cover change patterns and the driving forces that are inf
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Yuji Murayama Courage Kamusoko Akio Yamashita Ronald C. Estoque Editors
Urban Development in Asia and Africa Geospatial Analysis of Metropolises
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Editors Yuji Murayama Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Ibaraki Japan
Ronald C. Estoque Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Ibaraki Japan
Courage Kamusoko Asia Air Survey Co., Ltd. Kawasaki, Kanagawa Japan
ISSN 2365-757X The Urban Book Series ISBN 978-981-10-3240-0 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-3241-7
Akio Yamashita Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Ibaraki Japan
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