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Understanding the Characteristics and Realization Path of Urban Land Use Transition in the Bohai Economic Rim: An Analytical Framework of “Dominant–Recessive” Morphology Coupling

open access: yesLand, 2021
Taking the Bohai Economic Rim as the research area and 44 prefecture-level cities as research objects, on the basis of deepening the connotation of urban land use morphology, we constructed a multi-dimensional indicator system for urban land use ...
Yanbo Qu   +5 more
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Systemic Resilience of Complex Urban Systems

open access: yesTeMA: Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 2012
Two key paradigms emerge out of the variety of urban forms: certain cities resemble trees, others leaves. The structural difference between a tree and a leaf is huge: one is open, the other closed.
Serge Salat, Loeiz Bourdic
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Shanghai in the new economy of global flows shaping urban form and connectedness in the digital age

open access: yesJournal of Architecture and Urbanism, 2017
This paper is a contribution to the significant research program having developed around the concept of the global city over the last four decades in urban sociology and in political geography. Global cities can be defined both as places and as locations
Serge Salat
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A systemic approach of urban resilience: power laws and urban growth patterns

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2017
Resilient historical cities are the product of evolution and they have been shaped by incremental adaptation to fluctuations and by shocks of various magnitudes.
Serge Salat
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Subgrid corrections for the linear inertial equations of a compound flood model – a case study using SFINCS 2.1.1 Dollerup release [PDF]

open access: yesGeoscientific Model Development
Accurate flood risk assessments and early warning systems are needed to protect and prepare people in coastal areas from storms. In order to provide this information efficiently and on time, computational costs in flood models need to be kept as low as ...
M. van Ormondt   +5 more
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Water phenomenon: Urban morphology transformation [PDF]

open access: yesFacta Universitatis. Series: Architecture and Civil Engineering, 2010
This research paper deals with the mutual dependence of water phenomenon and urban morphology. Water is a basic subject matter of many analyses, and it is considered a principal existential and vital generator of the formation, sustainability and ...
Čakarić Jasenka
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How to Kill the Street without Destroying the Buildings

open access: yesTechnical Transactions, 2018
A discussion of the manner in which Oxford University institutions have modified the historic street structure and its character by acquiring whole blocks or by inserting new buildings, which ignore the street context, in the pursuit of promotional ...
Samuels Ivor
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The evolution of George Town's urban morphology in the Straits of Malacca, late 18th century-early 21st century

open access: yesFrontiers of Architectural Research, 2019
George Town is a significant World Heritage Site in the Straits of Malacca. This paper examined the evolution of urban morphology in George Town within geography, politics, economy, and culture in a horizontal dimension and layer upon layer in a vertical
Long Zhao   +2 more
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The Configurational Structures of Social Spaces: Space Syntax and Urban Morphology in the Context of Analytical, Evidence-Based Design

open access: yesLand, 2023
This article presents an argument for the enhanced utilisation of urban morphology in urban design, drawing inspiration from space syntax theory and methodologies, advocating for the integration of social, economic, and cultural considerations alongside ...
Kayvan Karimi
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Morphological Segmentation of Urban Structures [PDF]

open access: yes2007 Urban Remote Sensing Joint Event, 2007
Automatic segmentation of high-resolution remote sensing imagery is an important problem in urban applications because the resulting segmentations can provide valuable spatial and structural information that are complementary to pixel-based spectral information in classification.
Akçay, H. Gökhan, Aksoy, Selim
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