The geometry of urban layouts : a global comparative study / 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 metri...
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2017.
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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.