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title: 'flexurba: Construct Flexible Urban Delineations'
version: 0.2.3
doi: 10.1177/23998083241262545
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.flexurba
- type: url
  value: https://flexurba-spatial-networks-lab-research-projects--e74426d1c66ecc.pages.gitlab.kuleuven.be
abstract: Enables the construction of flexible urban delineations that can be tailored
  to specific applications or research questions, see Van Migerode et al. (2024) <DOI:10.1177/23998083241262545>
  and Van Migerode et al. (2025) <DOI:10.5281/zenodo.15173220>. Originally developed
  to flexibly reconstruct the Degree of Urbanisation classification of cities, towns
  and rural areas developed by Dijkstra et al. (2021) <DOI:10.1016/j.jue.2020.103312>.
  Now it also support a broader range of delineation approaches, using multiple datasets
  – including population, built-up area, and night-time light grids – and different
  thresholding methods.
authors:
- family-names: Van Migerode
  given-names: Céline
  email: celine.vanmigerode@kuleuven.be
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4023-7665
- family-names: Poorthuis
  given-names: Ate
  email: ate.poorthuis@kuleuven.be
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3808-7493
- family-names: Derudder
  given-names: Ben
  email: ben.derudder@kuleuven.be
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6195-8544
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: 'Flexurba: An open-source R package to flexibly reconstruct the Degree of
    Urbanisation classification'
  authors:
  - family-names: Van Migerode
    given-names: Céline
    email: celine.vanmigerode@kuleuven.be
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4023-7665
  - family-names: Poorthuis
    given-names: Ate
    email: ate.poorthuis@kuleuven.be
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3808-7493
  - family-names: Derudder
    given-names: Ben
    email: ben.derudder@kuleuven.be
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6195-8544
  - name: KU Leuven
  - name: FWO
  journal: 'Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science'
  year: '2024'
  volume: '51'
  issue: '7'
  doi: 10.1177/23998083241262545
  start: '-8'
repository: https://cvmigero.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/cvmigero/flexurba
commit: f48a0e0d272e79397a668be3cfd0f9efa376beb0
url: https://gitlab.kuleuven.be/spatial-networks-lab/research-projects/flexurba
date-released: '2026-02-17'
contact:
- family-names: Van Migerode
  given-names: Céline
  email: celine.vanmigerode@kuleuven.be
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4023-7665