Assessing cities: a new system of cross-scale spatial indicators

Bourdic, Loeiz; Salat, Serge; Nowacki, Caroline

doi:10.1080/09613218.2012.703488

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“…Lloyd (2001) surveyed and categorized measures of complexity across numerous fields of inquiry. Bourdic et al (2012) provide an overview of cross-scale spatial indicators and briefly touch on the neighborhood design assessment criteria of LEED-ND. Additional surveys of complexity indicators for ecosystems and cities have been produced by Parrott (2010) and Salat et al (2010), mostly focusing on dynamics.…”

Section: Background: Complexity Form and Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Measuring the Complexity of Urban Form and Design

Boeing

2017

SSRN Journal

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Complex systems have become a popular lens for conceptualizing cities, and complexity has substantial implications for urban performance and resilience. This paper develops a typology of methods and measures for assessing the complexity of the built form at the scale of urban design. It extends quantitative methods from urban planning, network science, ecosystems studies, fractal geometry, and information theory to the physical urban form and the analysis of qualitative human experience. Metrics at multiple scales are scattered throughout these bodies of literature and have useful applications in analyzing the complexity that both evolves and results from local planning and design processes. The typology developed here applies to empirical research of multiple neighborhood types and design standards and it includes temporal, visual, spatial, fractal, and network-analytic measures of the urban form.

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Section: Background: Complexity Form and Designmentioning

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Measuring the Complexity of Urban Form and Design

Boeing

2017

SSRN Journal

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“…For apart from telling us the urban morphology and the context-specific forms this takes on should not be ignored and ought to be integrated into the design of buildings, construction systems and occupational behaviour, we are left none the wiser as to how this broadening out of the subject can achieve this. While (Salat 2009) and (Bourdic, Serge and Nowacki 2012,) have recently sought to develop the surface-to-building volumes and passive-to-non-passive areas as the means to support such an integration, we find that here again these tend to be represented in strictly technical terms, distinct from either the social, environmental, or economic relationships they in turn relate to. This is despite both authors clearly acknowledging the criticality of such measures.…”

Section: Urban Morphology Design Layout and Texturementioning

confidence: 99%

Demonstrating How Urban Morphology Matters: Reaching Beyond the Geometry of Building Design, Construction Systems and Occupational Behaviours and Towards Broader Context-Specific Transformations

Deakin

Reid²,

Campbell³

2013

EMSD

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Recent studies of urban morphology, suggest the design, layout and texture of district centres, neighbourhoods and buildings have as much a bearing on levels of energy consumption and rates of carbon emission as either buildings or their occupation. They suggest urban morphology matters and both the design, layout and texture of district centres, neighbourhoods and buildings are as significant in setting levels of energy consumption and

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“…Smart and sustainable cities assessment models gain key importance as local governments make commitments to reduce CO2 emissions and need adequate instruments to measure their performance (Bourdic et al 2012;Kamruzzaman et al 2015). According to Egilmez et al (2015), CO2 emissions per capita and percentage of workers moving using public transportation and or non-motorised modes can significantly affect the sustainability performance of a city.…”

Section: Smart and Sustainable City Assessment Frameworkmentioning

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“…The system proposed by Bourdic et al (2012) is made of 60 spatial indicators of crossed scales, based on three pillars: urban form, economic and social, and environment. Indicators are set according to seven types, including intensity, diversity, proximity, complexity, form, connectivity, and distribution.…”

Section: Urban Morphologymentioning

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Knowledge-based, smart and sustainable cities: a provocation for a conceptual framework

Chang

Marques

Costa

et al. 2018

Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

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The smart and sustainable cities concept has become a globally hot topic during the last few decades, particularly following the catastrophic impacts of global climate change. The assessment of smart and sustainable cities, however, is a major challenge due to complex, complicated, and chaotic nature of our cities. This makes the available monitoring and evaluation tools difficult to adopt and apply in different urban contexts to support urban planning and governance and foster evidence-based policymaking. In order to address this issue, the paper brings together knowledge-based development concept with smart and sustainable cities. Knowledge-based development is a vision of development that considers knowledge as the central structuring element of a development strategy. Similarly, its more territory focused version, knowledge-based urban development is an integrated approach for the transition of cities and regions into sustainable, liveable and prosperous localities. The methodological approach of the paper includes the review of the literature on existing approaches on smart and sustainable cities assessment, describing their main aspects, strengths and limitations, and discuss the potential contribution of a knowledge-based urban development strategy for the successful promotion of smart and sustainable cities, presented in a proposed conceptual framework.

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Assessing cities: a new system of cross-scale spatial indicators

Cited by 117 publications

References 9 publications

Measuring the Complexity of Urban Form and Design

Measuring the Complexity of Urban Form and Design

Demonstrating How Urban Morphology Matters: Reaching Beyond the Geometry of Building Design, Construction Systems and Occupational Behaviours and Towards Broader Context-Specific Transformations

Knowledge-based, smart and sustainable cities: a provocation for a conceptual framework

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