Spacematrix: Space, Density and Urban Form - revised edition

Spacematrix explores the potential of urban density as a tool for urban planning and design.<br/>This revised and extended edition of Meta Berghauser Pont and Per Haupt’s 2010 volume includes an extensive analysis of the relations between density, urban form and performance – a prerequisite for understanding and successfully predicting the...

The spatial distribution and frequency of street, plot and building types across five European cities

Typologies have always played an important role in urban planning and design practice and formal studies have been central to the field of urban morphology. These studies have predominantly been of a historical-qualitative nature and do not support quantitative comparisons between urban areas and between different cities, nor offer the precise...

Development of a configurational typology for micro-businesses integrating geometric and configurational variables

In cities manifold actors are continuously taking decisions and proposing interventions, which are driven by, but also change, spatial conditions and their performance on a variety of scales. Understanding how this interplay works is crucial for urban designers and planners. However, this complexity asks for new methods of analysis or...

Quantitative comparison of cities: Distribution of street and building types based on density and centrality measures

It has been argued that different urban configurations-planned vs. organic, treelike vs. grid like-perform differently when it comes to the intensity and distribution of pedestrian flows, built density and land uses. However, definitions of urban configurations are often rather abstract, ill-defined and at worse end in fixed stereotypes...

Can spatial form support urban ecosystem services: Representing patches and connectivity zones for bees using space syntax methodology

Combination of Space syntax with spacematrix and the mixed use index: The Rotterdam South test case

Measuring urban form

For many, the notion of ‘measuring urban form’ will sound disturbing. Urban form is about visual images of cities, experiences, feelings, memories of place, thoughts and intellectual constructs anchored in the realm of the arts and the humanities. Anne Vernez Moudon however gives in the paper Urbanism by numbers (2009) a good argument to study...

Where, how and why to intensify the city: Applying regression modelling to estimate intensification potentials

Studying land-use distribution and mixed-use patterns in relation to density, accessibility and urban form

Mixed use development, one of the “mantras in contemporary planning” is a multi-criterion and multi-scalar concept which has various definitions. For this research mixed-use is defined as functional mixed-use and our main interest is to understand the spatial conditions needed to increase the diversity of uses (mix) by combining compatible...

Space, Density and Urban Form

The concentration of humans – in some cases judged as too high, in others not high enough – and the problems connected to this, have resulted in discussions on density. Prior to the 20th century, density in European cities was merely an outcome of complex circumstances. During the second half of the 19th century, high densities in...

Onderzoek Deltametropool

Onderzoekateliers zijn een samenwerkingsvorm van studenten in de afstudeerfase, promovendi, staf en hoogleraren, in totaal 8 tot 12 personen. Een onderzoekatelier combineert onderwijs met onderzoek: het thema van onderzoek van promotor en promoventus is richtinggevend voor de afstudeerprojecten van de deelnemende studenten.