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Shanghai in the new economy of global flows shaping urban form and connectedness in the digital age
Journal 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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The Morphology of Urban Land Use [PDF]
Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 1988 The irregularity of land uses and land parcels which constitute the morphology of a small English town is measured. Form is described by the digitised perimeters and areas of land-use parcels, and various methods are introduced which relate area to perimeter, and perimeter to scale, enabling the degree of irregularity to be assessed by means of the ...
M Batty, P A Longley
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Morphological Segmentation of Urban Structures [PDF]
2007 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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A systemic approach of urban resilience: power laws and urban growth patterns
International 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]
Geoscientific Model DevelopmentAccurate 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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Iconarp International Journal of Architecture and Planning, 2019 This paper provides a comprehensive review of the research field of urban morphology: the study of urban form. Urban morphology is a growing field of cross-disciplinary research, attracting worldwide interest among scholars in architecture, geography and
Sigríður Kristjánsdóttir
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Water phenomenon: Urban morphology transformation [PDF]
Facta 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
Technical 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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Frontiers 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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Land, 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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