The Geometry of Urban Layouts A Global Comparative Study /

• Main Author: Rashid, Mahbub (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Geography.; Economic geography.; Remote sensing.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Architecture.; City planning.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry.; Economic Geography.; Cities, Countries, Regions.; Urbanism.

This book presents a compendium of the urban layout maps of 2-mile square downtown areas of more than one hundred cities in developed and developing countries—all drawn at the same scale using high-resolution satellite images of Google Maps. The book also presents analytic studies using metric geome...