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Original Articles

Depicting urban boundaries from a mobility network of spatial interactions: a case study of Great Britain with geo-located Twitter data

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Pages 1293-1313 | Received 19 Feb 2016, Accepted 07 Jan 2017, Published online: 06 Mar 2017

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