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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
| Series: | Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology,
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- 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.
