Transport-Environment Issues and Countermeasures in Various Metropolises

Spatial point pattern and urban morphology: Perspectives from entropy, complexity, and networks

“…For example, the different boroughs in New York city possess patterns ranging from high coherence of grid-like street pattern (Manhattan) to decoherence of unplanned Staten Island. Another interesting example is Istanbul where the Asian part east of the Bosporus strait appears more coherent than its European portion in the west, which has been noted in literature and could be explained by the major urban growth in Anatolian Istanbul in the later half of last century [32]. Further observations also suggest that cities known to be well-planned (and generally ranked high by GPCI) appear to possess small decoherence values, while the ones known for being sprawling (with tendency of lower GPCI rank) exhibit large space and/or mass decoherence, which could either have clustered (ǫ ξ ≫ ǫ A ) or dispersed (ǫ ξ ≪ ǫ A ) patterns.…”