Central places and modality environments: An historical architecture of urban places

Water System and Urban Form of Guangzhou in Times of Climate Change

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

Space metrics modeling to analyse correlations between urban form and surface water drainage performance

Cities exhibit unique spatial patterns, and thus a distinctive heterogeneity. At different scales of influence, they introduce changes in the physical properties of the natural environment, as the diffusion of impervious surfaces. While climate change is expected to increase the frequency of hazards, patterns of urbanization might be critical in...

Spatial metrics modeling to analyse correlations between urban form and surface water drainage performance.

Cities exhibit unique spatial patterns, and thus a distinctive heterogeneity. At different scales of influence, they introduce changes in the physical properties of the natural environment, as the diffusion of impervious surfaces. While climate change is expected to increase the frequency of hazards, patterns of urbanization might be critical in...

Sustainable transformation of cities: The case of Eindhoven, the Netherlands

The question of sustainable urban development is linked to the issue of urban transformation; the challenge is to make use of ongoing transformation processes to achieve more sustainable urban environments. Hildebrand Frey is the main protagonist of the “urban cell theory” (UCT), focused on the redesign of existing cities, laying down important...

A Research on the Transformation of Urban Form And Dynamics of Xiguan Area, Guangzhou

This paper mainly uses the method of Urban Morphology to study the transformation process of urban form of Xiguan historical district in Guangzhou, P.R.China. The paper tries to analyze the transformation process through studying the background of politics, economy, society, culture and natural condition of Xiguan area. It further discusses the...

Restructuring cities for sustainability: A metabolism approach

The FP7-funded SUME project (Sustainable Urban Metabolism for Europe) is focusing on the way how future urban systems can be designed to be consistently less damaging to the environment and particularly to climate change than in the present. Urban development scenarios linked with an agent-based urban metabolism model will try to demonstrate the...

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...

Mapping Urban Form: Morphology studies in the contemporary urban landscape

This dissertation discusses the importance to study the form of the contemporary urban landscape. It shows how mapping is the tool by which the formal logic of the contemporary city can be uncovered. Through mapping, the urban landscape can be understood as systems of overlapping layers. This observation in terms of overlapping layers allows...

Acting across scales: Describing urban surfaces as technical 'fields of action'

The relation between the global and the local is the traditional concern of space syntax. A ‘form’ and a ‘structure’ of urban fabrics can be represented in images and graph measures using space syntax techniques and these images and measures correlate with observations of how people use and organize those urban fabrics. The implication is that...

The influence of built environment to the trends in commuting journeys in the Netherlands

Mapping urban and social space: Towards a socio-cultural understanding of the built environment

Workshop 2. Session 2.1: Planning and everyday life

Globalization, Urban Form and Governance

This Conference Book compiles the summary-papers that win be presented at the First Conference of the ALFA-IBIS Network. Part One is an introductory chapter containing a short history of the ALFA-IBIS project, the persons and Institutions involved and the objectives of this first conference. We have considered it necessary to also include the...