Zum Hauptinhalt springen Zur Suche springen Zur Hauptnavigation springen

The Geometry of Urban Layouts

Mahbub Rashid
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 geometrical, topological (or network), and fractal measures of these maps. These analytic studies identify ordinaries, extremes, similarities, and differences in these maps; investigate the scaling properties of these maps; and develop precise descriptive categories, types and indicators for multidimensional comparative studies of these maps. The findings of these studies indicate that many geometric relations of the urban layouts of downtown areas follow regular patterns; that despite social, economic, and cultural differences among cities, the geometric measures of downtown areas in cities of developed and developing countries do not show significant differences; and that the geometric possibilities of urban layouts are vastly greater than those that have been realized so far in our cities.
Autor: Rashid, Mahbub
EAN: 9783319307480
Auflage: 001
Sprache: Englisch
Seitenzahl: 468
Produktart: Gebunden
Verlag: Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG
Veröffentlichungsdatum: 24.06.2016
Untertitel: A Global Comparative Study
Schlagworte: Raumplanung Stadtplanung Stadt / Urbanität Urbanität
Größe: 31 × 160 × 241
Gewicht: 863 g

Verwandte Artikel

Mahbub Rashid
The Geometry of Urban Layouts
120,00 €*
inkl. MwSt, zzgl. Versand