Identifying building typologies and their spatial patterns in the metropolitan areas of Marseille and Osaka

Perez, Joan; Fusco, Giovanni; Araldi, Alessandro; Fuse, Takashi

doi:10.1007/s41685-019-00127-6

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“…More information on clustering validation can be found in Perez et al, (2019) [39], in which the whole methodological protocol and its statistical results have been presented in detail.…”

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The Character of Urban Japan: Overview of Osaka-Kobe’s Cityscapes

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The Japanese city presents a certain number of peculiarities in the organization of its physical space (weak zoning regulations, fast piecemeal destruction/reconstruction of buildings and blocks, high compacity, incremental reorganization). Compared to countries where urban fabrics are more perennial and easily distinguishable (old centers, modern planned projects, residential areas, etc.), in Japanese metropolitan areas we often observe higher heterogeneity and more complex spatial patterns. Even within such a model, it should be possible to recognize the internal organization of the physical city. The aim of this paper is thus to study the spatial structure of the contemporary Japanese city, generalizing on the case study of Osaka and Kobe. In order to achieve this goal, we will need to identify urban forms at different local scales (building types, urban fabrics) and to analyze them at a wider scale to delineate morphological regions and their structuring of the overall layout of the contemporary Japanese city. Several analytical protocols are used together with field observations and literature. The results, and more particularly the building and urban fabric types and their location within the Osaka-Kobe metropolitan area, are interpreted in the light of Japanese history and model of urbanization. A synoptic graphical model of an urban morphological structure based upon Osaka is produced and proposed as an interpretative pattern for the Japanese metropolitan city in general.Urban Sci. 2019, 3, 105 2 of 21 physical city and the morphological regions that can be identified within it. These works on European cities took into consideration street layouts, building styles and arrangements, function locations and centralities [7]. They later allowed the emergence of new approaches and concepts into the classical schools of urban morphology, such as urban fabric and morphological regions [8,9].These approaches, identifying similar areas based on their morphological characteristics, are of paramount importance whenever one seeks to understand the spatial logics of the physical city, its historical genesis and its possible evolution. Functional urban areas are often accompanied with buildings and fabrics possessing common characteristics in term of morphologies, hence the introduction starting the discussion with socio-functional models. However, within dense and large sized urban systems, distinctions between urban fabric types (high and low-rise neighborhoods, geometric and organic ones, etc.) and functional areas (residential, industrial, commercial, etc.) are becoming harder to identify. This phenomenon is not only due to the accumulation over time of different layers of urbanizations. In Japan for example, houses, buildings, or even whole urban blocks can be easily demolished to make way to new urban projects. Such a model, associated with weak land-use zoning regulations, allows a fast-piecemeal reorganization of intra-urban space. This is in sharp contrast with European and American cities where buildings and ...

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“…More information on clustering validation can be found in Perez et al, (2019) [39], in which the whole methodological protocol and its statistical results have been presented in detail.…”

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The Character of Urban Japan: Overview of Osaka-Kobe’s Cityscapes

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“…The third indicator measures typo-morphological diversity of the buildings within each SLA. As Perez et al [ 31 ] showed for Osaka (Japan) and Marseille (France), a small number of quantitative descriptors can be used to identify types of buildings within a vast metropolitan area. We thus used the very same indicators (i.e., building footprint surface, height, contiguity, convexity index, elongation index and specialization) plus a seventh descriptor (i.e., presence of lightweight extensions, such as verandas, balconies, porches, adjoining sheds, etc.)…”

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“…to cluster the buildings of the French Riviera in types, through a Naive Bayes classifier. After having binned the indicators like in [ 31 ], we obtained nine broad types of buildings: Type 1. Small compact low-rise detached/semidetached houses or garages.…”

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Assessing Morphological Resilience. Methodological Challenges for Metropolitan Areas

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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2020

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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.

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“…Urban environments exhibit a footprint that reflects how the cityscape is experienced and lived by its citizens and users. The study of urban morphology conducted by Perez et al (2019) is a good example of innovative application of spatial analysis to read the city through its morphology. The authors use multiple indicators of building characteristics in two urban regions with quite distinct social and cultural characteristics, namely Osaka-Kobe and Marseille-Provence.…”

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