The Urban Atlas: Methodological Foundation of a Morphometric Taxonomy of Urban Form

Activity: Examination

Description

The main result of this thesis is the method to automatically recognize urban patterns capturing their similarity and dissimilarity that are described in a typology of urban tissues (Ch 7) and a taxonomy based on urban tissue types (Ch 8). It does so by implementing concepts of morphometrics and numerical taxonomy used in biology.
The work includes demonstration of state of the art and traditional research techniques and the application of these in order to fully test the hypothesis, initial research questions and a number of supplementary questions arising from the outcomes at each stage. This has been undertaken using using several relevant statistical and mapping techniques, all of which are fully documented.


Period21 Jan 2021
ExamineeMartin Fleischmann
Examination held at
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • urban morphometrics
  • urban design
  • numerical taxonomy
  • statistical mapping