The Mathematics of Urban Morphology

This edited volume provides an essential resource for urban morphology, the study of urban forms and structures, offering a much-needed mathematical perspective. Experts on a variety of mathematical modeling techniques provide new insights into specific aspects of the field, such as street networks,...

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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: D'Acci, Luca (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2019.
Έκδοση:1st ed. 2019.
Σειρά:Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology,
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • On Urban Morphology and Mathematics
  • Part I: Fractals
  • Fractal Dimension Analysis of Urban Morphology Based on Spatial Correlation Functions
  • Central Place Theory and Power Laws for Cities
  • Distribution of Cities Size: Zipf, Gibrat, Pareto Law
  • Signature of Organic Urban Growth: Degree Distribution of the City's Street Network Structure
  • A Fractal Approach to Explore Australian Urban Form and Its Impacting Factors at Neighborhood Scale
  • Part II: Cellular Automata
  • Geographic Cellular Automata for Urban Form
  • Mathematical Foundations of Cellular Automata and Complexity Theory
  • Part III: Spatial Networks and Space Syntax
  • Mathematics of Urban Spatial Networks
  • Space Syntax: A Network Based Configurational Approach to Studying Urban Morphology
  • Applied Mathematics on Urban Space
  • The Morphology and Circuity of Street Networks
  • Part IV: Complexity
  • Emergence of Complexity in Urban Morphology
  • Complexity, Darwinian Mutations, and Selection in Urban Morphology Evolution: How Mathematics Looks at Escher Metamorphosis
  • A Topological Representation for Taking Cities as a Coherent Whole
  • Part V: Other Forms of Quantification
  • A Multiscale Classification of the Urban Morphology for Use in Quantitative Models
  • An Urban Morphogenesis Model Capturing Interactions Between Networks and Territories
  • Continuum Percolation and Spatial Point Pattern in Application to Urban Morphology
  • Urban Compactness: New Geometric Interpretations and Indicators
  • Using Google Street View for Street Level Urban Form Analysis
  • Examining Spatial Structure Using Gravity Models
  • Part VI: Humanistic and Multidisciplinary Commentaries
  • From Morphology to Morphogenesis: Putting Mathematics in Its Place
  • Not Only ... But Also: Urban Mathematical Models and Urban Social Theory
  • Urban Morphology or Townscape? Wholes Made of Many Parts
  • Extending Urban Morphology: Drawing Together Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches
  • Mathematics and Cities: A Long-Standing Relationship Fit for the Future
  • Mathematics and/as Humanities. Linking Humanistic Historical to Quantitative Approaches
  • Urban Form, Agents and Processes of Change
  • The Future of Streets
  • Understanding and Quantifying Urban Density Towards a More Sustainable City Form
  • To Not Talk Past Each Other: An Immodest Proposal for Cross-Conceptual Research in Urban Morphology.