“…In Northern America, Phoenix in Arizona (Baker et al, 2002;Cook, 2002;Gober and Burns, 2002;Jenerette et al, 2007;Luck and Wu, 2002;Musacchio and Wu, 2004), New York City (AlfsenNorodom et al, 2004;Bugliarello, 2004a;McDonnell et al, 1997;Plantinga and Miller, 2001), Madison in Wisconsin (McMillen, 1989;Weng, 2007), Chicago in Illinois (Felsenstein, 2002;McMillen, 1989), Atlanta in Georgia (Bourne, 1996;Gillies et al, 2003;Wolman et al, 2005) and Baltimore in Maryland (Musacchio and Wu, 2004;Wolman et al, 2005) are often used cities to study urban sprawl and related subjects. Statewide studies cover, for example, California (Atkinson and Oleson, 1996;Cablk and Minor, 2003;Syphard et al, 2007), Illinois (Deal and Schunk, 2004;Sullivan et al, 2004), or New Jersey (Hasse and Lathrop, 2003;Walmsley, 2006).…”