Sustainable County-Seat Urbanization in China’s Inter-Provincial Border Areas: Spatiotemporal Patterns, Cross-Provincial Spatial Dependence, and Spatial Explanatory Factors
China’s inter-provincial border areas (IPBAs) are largely located in mountainous, riverine, and other ecologically sensitive regions, where human activities interact intensively with natural ecosystems. Their urbanization is often constrained by geographical peripherality, administrative fragmentation, population and i...