| assessing sustainability in real urban systems: the greater cincinnati metropolitan area in ohio, kentucky, and indiana. | urban systems have a number of factors (i.e., economic, social, and environmental) that can potentially impact growth, change, and transition. as such, assessing and managing these systems is a complex challenge. while, tracking trends of key variables may provide some insight, identifying the critical characteristics that truly impact the dynamic behavior of these systems is difficult. as an integrated approach to evaluate real urban systems, this work contributes to the research on scientific ... | 2012 | 22775116 |