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...

Table of Contents:

• Part I. The Geometry of Urban Layouts: A Comparative Study of The Urban Layout Maps of Downtown Areas In Cities Around The World
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Urban Layout and Its Significance
• 3. Studies On The Geometry of Urban Layouts: A Review of The Literature
• 4. Materials and Measures
• 5. Detecting Ordinaries, Extremes, Similarities, and Differences: Univariate Descriptions of Urban Layouts
• 6. Examining Scaling Laws: Bivariate Descriptions of Urban Layouts
• 7. Developing Descriptive Categories, Types, and Indicators: Multivariate Descriptions of Urban Layouts
• 8. Robustness, Resiliency, and Universality in The Geometry of Urban Layouts
• Part II. The Geometry of Urban Layouts: A Compendium of The Urban Layout Maps of Downtown Areas In Cities Around The World
• 9. A Compendium of The Urban Layout Maps of Downtown Areas in Cities Around The World.