Abstract
Morphological resilience to urban change is the capacity of the form of the physical city to adapt to everchanging social, economic, and technical contexts. It echoes the theory of general resilience in ecology and is not linked to catastrophic events. Complexity theory informs principles of resilient systems that can be applied to urban form. This paper shows how morphological resilience can be assessed in a wide metropolitan area using geoprocessing protocols and available geospatial information. More specifically, a two-step methodology is proposed and tested on the French Riviera. First, spatial units of analysis are identified based on the interconnectedness of the street network, which is a major morphological component in itself. Next, a set of morpho-functional quantitative indicators of resilience is computed for such spatial units, accounting for both internal structure and integration within the wider metropolitan area. Thirteen indicators are selected to describe five different proxies of morphological resilience: diversity, connectivity, redundancy, modularity and efficiency. The paper also presents the preliminary results of morphological resilience assessment in the French Riviera. Urban central areas on the coast generally show more resilient characteristics, while more contrasted patterns emerge in the hinterland.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2020 |
Editors | Osvaldo Gervasi, Beniamino Murgante, Sanjay Misra, Chiara Garau, Ivan Blecic, David Taniar, Bernady O. Apduhan, Ana Maria A.C. Rocha, Eufemia Tarantino, Carmelo Maria Torre, Yeliz Karaca |
Place of Publication | Cham, Switzerland |
Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH |
Pages | 593-609 |
Number of pages | 17 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783030588205 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783030588199 |
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Publication status | Published - 30 Sept 2020 |
Event | 20th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications - Cagliari, Italy Duration: 1 Jul 2020 → 4 Jul 2020 https://2020.iccsa.org/ |
Publication series
Name | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) |
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Volume | 12255 LNCS |
ISSN (Print) | 0302-9743 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 1611-3349 |
Conference
Conference | 20th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications |
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Abbreviated title | ICCSA 2020 |
Country/Territory | Italy |
City | Cagliari |
Period | 1/07/20 → 4/07/20 |
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Funding
Acknowledgements. This research was carried out thanks to a research grant of the POPSU-Métropole program of the PUCA (Plan Urbanisme Construction Architecture) French governmental agency.
Keywords
- French Riviera
- geoprocessing
- morphological resilience
- urban form