The Geometry of Urban Layouts A Global Comparative Study
This book presents a compendium of the urban layout maps of 2-mile square downtown areas of more than one hundred cities in developed and developing countries—all drawn at the same scale using high-resolution satellite images of Google Maps. The book also
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The Geometry of Urban Layouts A Global Comparative Study
The Geometry of Urban Layouts
Mahbub Rashid
The Geometry of Urban Layouts A Global Comparative Study
Mahbub Rashid University of Kansas Lawrence, KS, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-30748-0 ISBN 978-3-319-30750-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-30750-3
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To my parents
Acknowledgments
This book originated from an elective seminar course I teach on the morphology of buildings and cities in the departments of architecture and planning at the University of Kansas. For the first few years of the seminar course, the students and I discussed various techniques for describing the morphology of buildings. For the next few years, we discussed how best to represent and analyze cities or city areas for the benefit of urban designers and scientists. This book is an outcome of the seminars of the later years. Most early versions of the drawings presented here in this book were created by the students. Put alphabetically, these students were Dhirgham Alobaydi, Elizabeth Avenius, Ahmed Bindajam, Adam Brcic, Roberto Castillo, Dominique Coolidge, Vincent Cunigan, Tyler Eighmy, Nick Fratta, Garrett Nicholas Fugate, Zach Holbert, Shareka Iqbal, Faria Islam, Sharmin Kader, Nate Kaylor, Chang Liu, Aubrey Morris, Kayla Pagano, Matthew Ainge Primovic, Pearl Suphakarn, Jesse Walters, Xiaoyun Wang, Jonathan Wilde, and Shiqi Zhang. I am most grateful to each of these students for their diligent work that served as the impetus for this book. I am also grateful to Drs. Shateh Hadi and Nayma Khan, who worked as my graduate research assistants for the seminar course. More specifically, I would like to thank Dr. Hadi for preparing the satellite images needed fo
