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Exploring Urban Form Through Openstreetmap Data: A Visual Introduction
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This chapter demonstrates the OSMnx toolkit for automatically downloading, modeling, analyzing, and visualizing spatial big data from OpenStreetMap and explores patterns and configurations in street networks and buildings around the world computationally through visualization methods that help compress urban complexity into comprehensible artifacts that reflect the human experience of the built environment.Abstract:
This chapter introduces OpenStreetMap—a crowd-sourced, worldwide mapping project and geospatial data repository—to illustrate its usefulness in quickly and easily analyzing and visualizing planning and design outcomes in the built environment. It demonstrates the OSMnx toolkit for automatically downloading, modeling, analyzing, and visualizing spatial big data from OpenStreetMap. We explore patterns and configurations in street networks and buildings around the world computationally through visualization methods—including figure-ground diagrams and polar histograms—that help compress urban complexity into comprehensible artifacts that reflect the human experience of the built environment. Ubiquitous urban data and computation can open up new urban form analyses from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives.read more
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White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
TL;DR: Kruse found that white flight, the decades-long movement of whites to the Atlanta suburbs, was not only the result of this struggle over space; it was also the source of a new form of southern white conservatism based on whites' resentful exit from the urban South as mentioned in this paper.
Cities Of Tomorrow An Intellectual History Of Urban Planning And Design In The Twentieth Century
TL;DR: The cities of tomorrow an intellectual history of urban planning and design in the twentieth century as discussed by the authors is available in our book collection an online access to it is set as public so you can get it instantly.
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Constrained Urban Airspace Design for Large-Scale Drone-Based Delivery Traffic
TL;DR: Two urban airspace concepts are proposed, applying road-based analogies of two-way and one-way streets by imposing horizontal structure to have vertically segmented altitude layers with respect to travel direction as well as horizontal constraints imposed to the flow of traffic.
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The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811–2011 (review)
TL;DR: The history of anglican domestic religion from the perspective of the enslaved, given what Winner has written, promises to be both devastating and moving as discussed by the authors, and anyone interested in religious history, anglicanism, american history, material culture, and the creative interpretation of religious and historical texts will want to read this book.
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Measuring the Complexity of Urban Form and Design
TL;DR: A typology of measures and indicators for assessing the physical complexity of the built environment at the scale of urban design is developed and extends quantitative measures from city planning, network science, ecosystems studies, fractal geometry, statistical physics, and information theory to the analysis of urban form and qualitative human experience.
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Image of the city
Abstract: What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion -- imageability -- and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.
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Smart Cities: Definitions, Dimensions, Performance, and Initiatives
TL;DR: The different metrics of urban smartness are reviewed to show the need for a shared definition of what constitutes a smart city, what are its features, and how it performs in comparison to traditional cities.
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Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States
TL;DR: The winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize, this book is the first detailed history of suburban life in America from its origin to the drive-in culture of today as discussed by the authors.
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Smart cities of the future
Michael Batty,Kay W. Axhausen,Fosca Giannotti,Alexei Pozdnoukhov,Armando Bazzani,Monica Wachowicz,Georgios K. Ouzounis,Y. Portugali +7 more
TL;DR: The state of the art, explaining the science of smart cities is defined and seven project areas are proposed: Integrated Databases for the Smart City, Sensing, Networking and the Impact of New Social Media, Modelling Network Performance, Mobility and Travel Behaviour, Modelled Urban Land Use, Transport and Economic Interactions, Decision Support as Urban Intelligence, Participatory Governance and Planning Structures for the smart city.
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How Good is Volunteered Geographical Information? A Comparative Study of OpenStreetMap and Ordnance Survey Datasets:
TL;DR: Analysis of the quality of OpenStreetMap information focuses on London and England, since OSM started in London in August 2004 and therefore the study of these geographies provides the best understanding of the achievements and difficulties of VGI.