24th ISUF 2017 - City and Territory in the Globalization Age

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Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura September 27, 2017 – September 29, 2017

XXIV ISUF Conference in Valencia marks as its objective the updating of studies in urban morphology and urban and territorial planning on a two-fold global concern, environmental sustainability and social and urban inequality, concern to be focused on the development of new analytical techniques. First concern, environmental sustainability, is addressed in Topics nº 1 “Stages in territorial configuration”, nº 4, “Efficient use of resources for a sustainable city”, nº 5 “Transforming the existing city”, and nº 8, “Urban green space”.

Second concern, social and urban inequality, is addressed in Topics nº2 “Urban form and social use of space” and nº3, “Reading and regenerating the informal city”.

The emphasis in new analytical methods is addressed in Topics nº6 “Cartography and Big Data” and nº7, “Tools for analysis in urban morphology”.

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A configurational perspective on the transformation of smalland medium-sized historical towns in Zhejiang, China
(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-20) Zhang, Ye; Xie, Xiangya; Zhang, Jie
[EN] Historical cities in China have experienced tremendous changes in the past century and in particular over the past 30 years. While an increasing number of researches on the transformation of major cities have been witnessed in recent years, endeavours to studying the more ordinary and small- and medium-sized towns are very rare. This research attempts to bridge this knowledge gap by studying six historical towns in Zhejiang, China from a configurational perspective. Changes of street configuration and its relation to spatial distribution of urban activities from Qing dynasty to the present are investigated. Methodologically, both axial and segment models of Space Syntax method are employed and different syntactic measures are examined, in order for an insightful analysis of the change of street configuration. Point-of-interest (PoI) mapping is harnessed to describe urban activity distribution, and its relationship with street configuration is examined using bivariate correlation analysis. The result shows that all six case studies exhibit similar process of change – street configuration become increasingly integrated and structured from Qing dynasty to the 1980s before getting separated and less structured and diverging in street layout until the present. The distribution of urban activities, however, is shown positively correlated to spatial integration throughout the period of history under investigation.
A first approach to the possible urban form of the city of Alcoy for the 21st century
(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-20) Vidal Climent, Ivo Eliseo; Vidal Climent, Ciro Manuel; Vidal Vidal, Vicente; Dpto. de Proyectos Arquitectónicos; Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura
[EN] The will of Modernity to define and decide the urban form has been truncated by an endless succession of conditions related to land ownership and the many ways of justifying compliance with all kinds of rules that elude the question about form. The consequence is that they provoke a distortion of reality by blurring the entity of the city and its position in front of history.In this sense, the drift and banalization of urbanism has been directed by the bureaucratic criteria of an administration that, with or without technical knowledge, makes decisions that impact on the urban form but without acquiring commitment or responsibility towards it. The urban form is at the mercy of the local building legislation, of the road or the shape of the plots susceptible or not to be built. Irremediably, the resulting urban form, achieved both in an active and passive way, evidences the error of the procedure because it reveals an operational ignorance of the context, of history, or simply of the faith in progress.From the shelter of thought that represents the discipline of urbanism we introduce a series of urban solutions for the city of Alcoy that correspond to a possible urban proposal bounded in the time of the XXI century. This study aims to have a view of the urban form and urbanist order for the city of Alcoy and its territory under the premises of understanding both the inherited city and the needs of the new generations committed to a possible future
A multidisciplinary approach to urban fabrics analysis. The historical centre of Valencia
(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-20) Maretto, Marco; Mas Llorens, Vicente; Alvarez, Eva; Gherri, Barbara; Gomez, Carlos; Guarini, Maria Rosaria; Chiovitti, Anthea; Emmi, Gianluca
[EN] The themes of reduce, recycle, reuse are at the heart of the challenges that the global society of the XXI century is facing. At the same time, more than two-thirds of the world population lives in cities nominating the latters to play a central role in the near future. For this reason, the search for a methodology for the redevelopment of the historical urban fabrics appears today extremely interesting. Complexity, richness and stratification of the latters make them definitely the most convincing test to set a scientific strategy for the project of urban transformations. But stratification means complexity and complex are the phenomena that characterize the XXI century society. The only convincing way then for the analysis of these phenomena is that of the multi-disciplinarity. The proposed methodology is structured, thus, around a number of disciplines (Urban Morphology, Sustainability, Urban Regulation, Economic Evaluation and Urban Design) on which to set the reading of the urban fabric with special attention to the so called “urban voids” namely all those situations in which the tissue is interrupted due to slumping and demolitions. This aspect is very important because if, on the one hand, it is in these areas where key tissue analysis problems can be seen, on the other hand, it is always from these areas that the main urban, social and economical transformation opportunities can take boot. A Due Diligence of the “urban voids” organised in datasheets/base (for each area) concludes the analysis. The different disciplinary fields work then in a complementary way within a single methodological approach laying the scientific basis for the interventions of urban regeneration within the historic fabric of Valencia.
A quest to quantify urban sustainability. Assessing incongruous growth
(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-20) Hanzl, Malgorzata; Bezerra, Lia Maria; Tomczak, Anna; Warsza, Robert
[EN] Urban planners, politicians and citizens need comprehensive and clear information in order to conduct or to get involved in successful evidence-based planning and policymaking. The objective to improve the quality of planning outcomes both at the local and regional level needs design mechanisms that can help verify and support urban planning approaches with quantitative analyses and simulation tools. While this issue has been explored through extensive literature on the topic, there is still plenty to research further, especially when dealing with the evaluation of plans, such as local plans of urban development, comprehensive plans, municipal studies or larger planning involving multiple municipal associations. The use of quantitative analyses may be applied to several aspects of the physical form, including connectivity, ecological system continuations, built structure conciseness and its urban boundary, urban tissue morphology, among others. Quantitative analyses completed by qualitative description and enriched with socio-cultural assessment can result in a comprehensive picture of an area’s current and planned state. This paper presents our experience with mapping residential structure typologies in Lodz, Poland and its surroundings. This mapping assessed the existing residential densities and planned development capacities considering the area’s demographic dynamics in the background. The method revision is completed by examples of open green space quality assessment.
A Study of Chinese Traditional Wetland Island Settlement Combining Morphological and Narrative Analyses
(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-20) Lei, Dongxue; Lu, Andong
[EN] The Lixiahe region, a low-lying wetland located to the eastern side of the Huaiyang section of the Grand Canal, is characterized by a complex hydrological environment and has changed slowly in the urbanization process. The historical town of Shagou, a representative case of island settlements in this region, has a recorded history of continuous morphological change over six hundred years. Regarding Shagou as a cultural-geographical entity, this article aims at combining morphological analysis and narrative-based cognitive mapping to reveal the characteristic townscape that strongly depends on cultural-geographic complexity. Based on survey work, this article will first define distinguishable plan elements that underpin the spatial form of Shagou: 1) natural context; 2) streets system, and then investigate diachronically different phases of the formation of its spatial structure. On the other hand, based on archiving and data analysis of the oral history study, this article will generate a narrative cognitive map, in terms of paths, nodes, landmarks and areas. In conjunction with fieldwork and documentary records, this study testifies that the method derived from the plan analysis developed by Conzen is applicable to the study of wetland island settlement form in China and that narrative spatial analysis provides important supplemental spatial information. A careful combination of these methods might be used for understanding culturally embedded settlement forms in China
A study on the history of urban morphology in China based on discourse analysis
(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-20) Zhang, Limeng; Lu, Andong
[EN] Urban morphology is a method widely used in China in the field of urban design and urban conservation. Since its first introduction to the Chinese context about 30 years ago, the key ideas and concepts of urban morphology underwent a significant phenomenon of ‘lost in translation’. Different origins of morphological thoughts, different versions of translation, as well as different disciplinary context, have all together led to a chaotic discourse. This paper reviews the key Chinese articles in the field of urban morphology since 1982 and draws out a group of persistent keywords, such as urban form, growth mechanism, evolution and axis that characterize the morphological approach to urban issues, to find unusual evolutionary process. By reviewing the transformation of the definition of these keywords, this paper aims to generate an evolutionary diagram of landmark ideas and concepts.
Agro-Urban Landscape: the case study of Monteruscello-Naples
(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-20) Como, Alessandra; Smeragliuolo Perrotta, Luisa; Vece, Carlo
[EN] Studies on morphology and on the urban form should not be detached from social aspects and from the responsibility of architects and policy makers. The issue becomes even more complicated in the case of cities with a high number of buildings under public ownership or urban areas of great dimensions. In Italy there is a very rare case of recent urban foundation that is the neighbourhood of Monteruscello in the city of Pozzuoli, in South Italy. Built in the 1980s to face the problem of bradyseism events that had made uninhabitable the historic city areas, Monteruscello today, for its dimension, can be considered a “city in the city” with the 90% of the buildings under public ownership. The neighbourhood’s project was designed by Agostino Renna who developed it through analogical composition with fragments referred to other places and cities. The architect applied an urban model based on morphological studies, adapting it to the specific geography of the site. Till now the neighbourhood has never acquired its own identity becoming one of the most degraded areas of the city. This paper deals with the issue of urban form and morphology starting from the study of Monteruscello from the initial design project and the related critical issues through a new experimental design project of an agro-urban landscape that involves fifty hectares of public green spaces -now abandoned- turning them into agricultural land for urban use and growth resource.
Altea Urban Project: An academic approach to the transformation of a coastal Spanish touristic city based on the improvement of the public space
(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-20) Iborra Pallarés, Vicente; Zaragoza Saura, Francisco
[EN] The town of Altea (Alicante, Spain) has an important urban center that has historically been characterized by two contrasting situations: on one hand, the settlements located on the seaside elevations (Bellaguarda and the Renaissance Bastion) linked to the agricultural uses of the fertile valleys of the rivers Algar and els Arcs, and on the other hand the coastal developments, originally fishery, but nowadays with touristic uses on the maritime front. All these elements configure an urban nucleus that, due to its urban, architectural and landscape qualities, gives rise to one of the main tourist attractions of the region. However, the area described nowadays presents an important problem related to the use and habitability of public space, which is invaded by the presence of the private vehicle, even along the seaside, due to its touristic relevance. This article presents the results of an academic experience developed to study different possibilities of urban transformations for the municipality of Altea, taking as a project site the urban vacuum still conserved between the two situations previously described: the historical areas on the coastal elevations (Dalt) and new urban developments parallel to the seaside (Baix). This academic activity, performed by nearly 50 students from the University of Alicante, was developed in the context of the design course Urbanism 5 during the academic year 2015-16, thanks to the agreement signed between the Municipality of Altea and the University of Alicante.
An Analysis of the Applicability of Conzenian School in China: Exemplified by Shangqiu
(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-20) Shen, Zijing; Feng, Xirui; Cheng, Shuying; Shi, Yanhui
[EN] Urban morphology has been studied extensively in western countries, while the related researches had been carried out late in China and the researches on urban morphology evolution characteristics of China are rare. Scanty case studies like Pingyao showed that the characteristics of urban form and its evolutionary process of China was different from the western. This paper review the existing researches and take Shangqiu as a case city to study urban morphology evolution characteristics of Chinese cities, preliminary analyze China s special social and economic characteristics as well as its urban morphology process from the double fringe belts, plot and block patterns of Shangqiu. Through the research on the evolution of Shangqiu s urban form, this paper aims to preliminary delimit the morphological period of Shangqiu, explore the evolution mechanism of Shangqiu, summarize evolutionary characteristics of Chinese cities and reflect urban morphological approaches in western academic system.
Arrival Cities: Refugees in Three German Cities
(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-20) Neis, Hajo; Meier, Briana; Furukawazono, Tomo
[EN] Since late 2015, the authors have studied the refugee crisis in Europe and the Middle East (PUARL Refugee Research Website, 2017). In this paper, we present three case studies in three different cities in Germany. Refugees are everywhere in Germany, even in smaller towns and villages. The case study cities are at different scales and include Borken (15,000 people), Kassel, a mid-size city (200,000), and Essen, a larger city (600,000) which is part of the still larger Ruhr Area Megacity. In these cities we try to understand the life of refugees from their original escape city and country to their arrival in these new communities. Our work focuses on the social-spatial aspects of refugee experiences, and the impacts on urban morphology and building typology. We also try to understand how refugees manage their new life in partial safety of place, shelter, food and financial support, but also in uncertainty and insecurity until officcially accepted as refugees. Beyond crisis, we are looking at how refugees can and will try to integrate into their host countries, cities, and neighborhoods and start a new life. Urban architecture projects for housing and work opportunities that help the process of integration are part of this study. Particularly, in this paper, we investigate the reality on the ground of the positive Wilkommen Kultur (welcome culture) and the high expectations and implied promises that were set in 2015 by Chancellor Angela Merkel and German society.
Assessment of the process of urban transformation in Baghdad city form and function
(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-20) Al-Saffar, Mazin
[EN] During the 21st century, urban transformation of cities has been intensely affected by flows of socio-economic and technological processes. Through the centuries, such as all historical places in Mesopotamia, Baghdad has given an outstanding example of dramatic evolution. The city, which stands on the river Tigris, faced various transformation processes in the culture and physical environment due to social and political reasons. The transformation of Baghdad city is a very complicated process driven by various factors affecting the homogeneity of the old urban fabric. Reconfiguration and the production of new urban typologies within the heritage fabric were the most fundamental effects. The outcome was different spatial languages competing with each other. This transformation changed the relations and hierarchies among spaces, which allowed more flexibility and accessibility between private and public space. The main purpose of this study is to examine how Baghdad city emerged and to develop a comprehensive understanding of the history of urban transformation in the context of city change. To achieve this aim, this paper will utilise urban morphology to explain how Baghdad transformed from a geometric city (the Round City AD762 by Caliph Al-Mansur) to an organic form and then from a traditional city to the modern metropolis. It will seek to analyse the process of urban transformation in Baghdad and show different types of urban patterns. Moreover, this paper will try to illustrate how the new way of transportation represented by the car has affected the historic centre and changed the structural system of Baghdad.
Because people act, cities can be smart: Promoting social innovation in smart-city design-tools in the Mediterranean
(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-20) Mateo Cecilia, Carolina Arantxa; Navarro Escudero, Miriam; Serrano Lanzarote, Apolonia Begoña; Valero Escribano, Vera; Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura; Dpto. de Mecánica de los Medios Continuos y Teoría de Estructuras
[EN] Smart city is an innovative paradigm tackling a range of emerging problems associated with urbanization, massively understood from a technology-driven approach. Much of the focus of the smart city movement to date – city authorities and other organizations deploying sensors, networks, decision support tools and data analytics to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of urban systems (like transport, utilities, etc.) – is only half the story. In occasions, citizens struggle with a top-down managing city system that should help public administrators, service providers and citizens, but reports instead on personal frustration. To avoid this, an attempt to promote social innovation processes to the smart city paradigm is now taking place. In this paper, we analyze reactions to a smart city design-tool for energy strategy plans’ definition and implementation, in the three EU most populated Mediterranean countries (Spain, France, Italy). The research is based on the ACCENT study case. Interviews show common challenges with regard to ACCENT smartness, as the needs and dangers of sharing real energy consumption data of buildings, the low willingness of some energy suppliers to offer information, the user-unfriendly interfaces for citizens, the lack of linkage among public bodies, the dispersion of data, the requirement of disseminating mechanisms to make citizens aware of the benefits of the energy renovation, or the inaccessibility to existing information on the state of buildings. These challenges resulting from ACCENT study give rise to three recommendations to foster social innovation in further Mediterranean smart city design-tools: co-responsibility, hand-in-hand co-creation and citizens’ organizational empowerment.
Between territories: Incremental changes to the domestic spatial interface between private and public domains
(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-20) Wir-Konas, Agnieszka; Seo, Kyung
[EN] In this paper we investigate incremental changes to the relationship between private and public territory on the micro-morphological scale of the residential building-street interface. The building-street interface lies on the edge between two distinctively different spatial domains, the house and the street, and provides a buffer which may be adjusted to aid the transition from private to public territory. The structure of the space impacts both domains: it provides a fit transition from the private dwelling to the public territory, creates a space for probabilistic encounters between inhabitants and strangers, and maintains the liveability of the public street. The aim of this paper is threefold: Firstly, we recognise morphological differences in the structure of the interfaces and the way the transition from private to public territory was envisioned and designed in different societal periods. Secondly, we study incremental changes to the interface, representing individual adjustments to the private-public boundary, in order to recognize common types of adaptations to the existing structure of the interface. The history of changes to each individual building and building-street interface was traced by analysing planning applications and enforcements publicly provided by the city council. Lastly, we compare the capacity of each building-street interface to accommodate incremental change to the public-private transition. We argue that studying the incremental change of the interface and the capacity of each interface to accommodate micro-scale transformations aids in the understanding of the complex social relationship between an individual and a collective in the urban environment.
Between the heritage and the contemporaneity of the industrial city of Alcoy
(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-20) Palomares Figueres, María Teresa; Vidal Climent, Ciro Manuel; Vidal Climent, Ivo Eliseo; Dpto. de Proyectos Arquitectónicos; Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura; Dpto. de Composición Arquitectónica
[EN] The ARA plan, acronym for Architecture and Rehabilitation of Alcoy, was the response to a collective desire of change and to the need for the renewal of an industrial city with a deeply rooted bourgeois and working-class base. The impulse and credibility that made possible the conception of the ARA plan came from a series of projects that consolidated seriously damaged zones of the historic center, and secondarily from the economic commitment of the Generalitat with urban projects of great disciplinary interest that, at that time, had the character of pioneers for their modern procedures of intervention on the inherited city.The common framework of Plan ARA hosted many urban proposals very different in their methodology. However the sense of their cohesion in the city was evident because behind them there was a thought of order necessary for the consolidation and modernization of the urban patrimony that future challenges would ask for. The most relevant architectural project was the renovation of the neighborhood of La Sang, which won the FAD Architecture Award in 1999, but for the citizens the evidence of a remarkable change came with the construction of the public parks. Since that moment the people perceived that an ambitious and clear idea of the city was giving shape to their daily domestic outer spaces.Unfortunately a mix of political and economical issues truncated or set aside important ongoing projects so the completion of the ARA plan was never reached. and the aspiration of becoming an strategic city was forgotten.
Building a timeline, developing a narrative: visualising fringe belt formation alongside street network development
(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-20) Geddes, Ilaria; Charalambous, Nadia
[EN] This project was developed as an attempt to assess the relationship between different morphogenetic processes, in particular, those of fringe belt formation as described by M.R.G. Conzen (1960) and Whitehand (2001), and of centrality and compactness as described by Hillier (1999; 2002). Different approaches’ focus on different elements of the city has made it difficult to establish exactly how these processes interact or whether they are simply different facets of development reflecting wider socio-economic factors. To address this issue, a visual, chronological timeline of Limassol’s development was constructed along with a narrative of the socio-economic context of its development. The complexity of cities, however, makes static visualisations across time difficult to read and assess alongside textual narratives. We therefore took the step of developing an animation of land use and configurational analyses of Limassol, in order bring to life the diachronic analysis of the city and shed light on its generative mechanisms. The video presented here shows that the relationship between the processes mentioned above is much stronger and more complex than previously thought. The related paper explores in more detail the links between fringe belt formation as a cyclical process of peripheral development and centrality as a recurring process of minimisation of gains in distance. The project’s outcomes clearly show that composite methods of visualisations are an analytical opportunity still little exploited within urban morphology.
Building Transformation in Bandung City Centre: Expansion of Land Lot at Pasar Baru Area
(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-20) Soewarno, Nurtati; Taufan, Hidjaz; Eka, Virdianti
[EN] City as a man creation is always experiencing transformation from time to time. The city center area, originating from a residence area has turned into a commercial area for trading. This transformation is recognized by the physical building change. This paper will describe building transformation in the Pasar Baru area, which is a conservation area in the city center of Bandung city, Indonesia. Colonialism left dualism of the land status in this area, formal and informal. Formal land is located on the road side shaped as row shop houses whilst the informal land lies behind the shop houses in form of urban kampong. The improvement of business and trading, demands a larger working area so space expansion is needed. The difference of land status and location makes it possible for shop house owners to expand their lot toward the kampong behind. Nowadays old shop houses as conservation buildings are hard to recognize because they have been transformed into new shop house forms. By observing the shape it’s expected that the lot expansion was the motivating factor. How did the transformation occur? Can transformation on one land lot give contribution to transformation on the city? It’s expected that the occurring transformation should not eliminate the conservation, building and area in the city center and the residential function could still be maintained.
Can our cities be planned? Does the function follow the form?. The New York experience
(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-20) Peñín Ibáñez, Alberto; Peñín Llobell, Alberto
[EN] Do we need urban planning? For a better future, for a better territorial integration, for attending collective demands? New York is at the other side of the usual answer. Manhattan is an example of the versatility of a single pattern, drawn on a paper over a territory with very different features. When it comes to reality, it uniforms it, and fills it with progressive, unattended and renewed demands, with no more plan than the one that is demanded by an efficient economic system. Its urban plan (?) has just attended, quickly, private demands, giving flexibility to ground uses and GFAs, with no more worries than its functionality. As the only stable issue, as simple and clear as possible, has been the link between urban space and territory through a universal but fixed pattern. It allows free deals between developers and authority, respecting very few regulations, to enable changes, constructions, knocking offs and rehabilitations far from the European style urban plans. Which is its future in a democratic and free society? A government based constantly and with transparency on assemblies, not in a Plan, that can assure equal treatments and fair deals of the initiatives towards the community? Some of the proposals accepted in Manhattan, where the urban shape at its simplest stage of a horizontal pattern unchanged in its 200 years of existence, show us the success and failures of this system. Adapted from the beginning to a traded world, it has no bad urban nor social conscience. This frame match perfectly the precapitalism of its founders with the demands of a contemporary globalized society.
Can Speed Enhance Our Understanding Of The Role Of Spatial Connectivity? The Creation Of A ‘Spatial-Speed’ Map
(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-20) Goodship, Paul
[EN] Throughout Latin America urban cable-cars have fast become a normal sight with urban transport systems, taking residents and tourists to and from previously isolated locations. As the popularity of these new modes of transport grows, it is important to understand the role spatial connectivity plays in integrating previously segregated communities. This is possible using a Space Syntax methodology to analyse the connectivity of a spatial network. However, this does not taking into account different forms of movement affected by transport or local landscape. Therefore, the aim of this paper to explores the use of ‘speed’ as a measurement to enhance our interpretation of spatial connectivity, through the case of Medellin. ‘Speed’ is used because it provides a clear indication of connection times between different parts of the city and is comparable throughout a variety of conditions, such as transport and walking. An average speed is therefore calculated for each segment of Medellin’s spatial network, including all forms of transport, and is then combined with the results of a standard Space Syntax analysis, forming a hybrid ‘spatial’ and ‘speed’ map. For accuracy, the results are tested against a pedestrian movement survey conducted locally nearby each cable-car station. The findings indicate that by introducing ‘speed’ as a weighted measurement, the overall spatial network of the city is not significantly improved, yet when the area surrounding each cable-car is examined closely, local ‘through’ spaces is clearer, especially when spatial conditions, or the user, is non-standard.
Cartographying the real metropolis: A proposal for a data-based planning beyond the administrative boundaries
(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-20) Selva-Royo, Juan Ramón; Mardones, Nuño; Cendoya, Alberto
[EN] Nowadays, there is a great gap between the functional reality of urban agglomerations and their planning, largely because of the traditional linkage of urban management to the administrative limits inherited from the past. It is also true that the regulation of urban activities, including census and statistical information, requires a closer view of its citizens that can only be addressed from the municipal level. In any case, it is clear that the metropolitan delimitation has met useful but often ethereal or exclusionary criteria (economic or labor patterns, functional areas...), which become disfigured by an administrative reality that does not always correspond to the real metropolis. This paper, aware of the new cartographic possibilities linked to the big data - CORINE Land Cover, SIOSE, multi-sector digital atlases (in many cases referred to the urban extent, etc.) and other open system platforms - explores the evidence that might base a new objective methodology for the delimitation and planning of large urban areas. Indeed, what if basic data for cities would arise not from administrative entities but from independent outside approaches such as satellite imagery? What if every single sensing unit (every citizen, company, building or vehicle) directly issued relevant and dynamic information without going through the municipal collection? Finally, the research analyzes the eventual implications of this data-based planning with administrative structures and urban planning competencies in force through some current case studies, with the purpose of achieving a more efficient and clear metropolitan governance for our planet.
Case study on emerging trends in geospatial technologies for study of urban form
(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-04-20) Lee, Ming-Chun
[EN] GIS has been an e振ective tool to study urban form. However, as its own ield, GIS has evolved in a rapid pace over the past decades. Recent developments in geospatial analytics and visualization technologies o振er new tools and applications for the researchers in the ield. This paper traces recent major trends in GIS and discusses their implications to the ield of urban form research. These trends include the following: 1) increase in dimensions with 3D GIS; 2) integration with LiDAR remote sensing; 3) cloud-based GIS; 4) integration with virtual reality. This paper identiies best practices from two recent projects in the United States. It then discusses a class project and demonstrates the potentials of these new emerging GIS technologies for the study of urban form

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