Urban Form Analysis of Courtyard in Traditional Settlements—Case Study of Three Lanes and Seven Alleys District in Fuzhou City

The purpose of this article is investigating the form of cities based on the new approach of urban smart growth and transect. Currently, the smart urban growth by using the transect method has been able to apply the environmental criteria and keep away from sprawl. The design is based on applying transect method in scale of neighborhoods within metropolis zone. In the zones of transect, different indexes of urban forms have defined clearly; furthermore are measurable and analyzable. The second purpose is determining degree of compatibility between urban characteristics within metropolis zone in one hand, and form-base codes of smart growth in the other hand. The case study of present research is selected due to having diversity of urban forms, different kinds of density, land-use and urban natural landscapes. For this diversity, 9th district in Mashhad metropolis was selected. The transect method has six separate zoning from T1 as the most natural and rural indexes, to T6 including most urban and dense indexes. The new method of Space Matrix for measuring the urban is used for transect zoning. By selecting a north- south crosscut in the considered district and exploiting the urban indexes, the Transect typology of each selected urban unit was determined by spacematrix method. Then, resulted indexes for each urban unit separately were assessed by multi-criteria decision-making matrixes(MCDM). Finaly by the hypothesis test part, with respect to compliance of more than 50% of 26 indexes of urban units of 9th district, it seems that direction of new urban regulation and models totally express avoiding sprawl and tending to ecologic approaches in the concepts of smart growth and urban form characteristics can analyzed.

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HISTORICAL URBAN FORM: A CASE STUDY OF MELAKA

PLANNING MALAYSIA JOURNAL ◽

10.21837/pm.v16i6.470 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 16 ◽

Author(s):

Illyani Ibrahim ◽

Alias Abdullah ◽

Mansor Ibrahim ◽

Fatin Farhana Murtaza

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Content Analysis ◽

Urban Form ◽

Open Space ◽

Earth Surface ◽

Malay Peninsula ◽

Form Analysis ◽

The Earth

Understanding the urban form is crucial in determining the structure of a city in terms of physical and nonphysical aspects. The physical aspects include built-up areas that can be seen on the earth surface, and the nonphysical aspects include the shape, size, density, and configuration of settlements. The objectives of this study are to (i) analyse the elements of historical urban form that are suitable for the site and (ii) to study on the elements of urban form in Melaka. Content analysis was adopted to analyse the literature of urban form and Melaka. Results show that the following four elements of urban form are suitable to be used for historical urban form analysis: (i) streets, (ii) land use, (iii) buildings, and (iv) open space. The findings also indicate that the selected urban form has successfully delineated in the historical of Melaka as the selected urban elements can be specifically scrutinized with the content analysis. Further study will focus on the historical urban form within the Malay Peninsula.

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HISTORICAL URBAN FORM: A CASE STUDY OF MELAKA

PLANNING MALAYSIA JOURNAL ◽

10.21837/pmjournal.v16.i6.470 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 16 (6) ◽

Author(s):

Illyani Ibrahim ◽

Alias Abdullah ◽

Mansor Ibrahim ◽

Fatin Farhana Murtaza

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Content Analysis ◽

Urban Form ◽

Open Space ◽

Earth Surface ◽

Malay Peninsula ◽

Form Analysis ◽

The Earth

Understanding the urban form is crucial in determining the structure of a city in terms of physical and nonphysical aspects. The physical aspects include built-up areas that can be seen on the earth surface, and the nonphysical aspects include the shape, size, density, and configuration of settlements. The objectives of this study are to (i) analyse the elements of historical urban form that are suitable for the site and (ii) to study on the elements of urban form in Melaka. Content analysis was adopted to analyse the literature of urban form and Melaka. Results show that the following four elements of urban form are suitable to be used for historical urban form analysis: (i) streets, (ii) land use, (iii) buildings, and (iv) open space. The findings also indicate that the selected urban form has successfully delineated in the historical of Melaka as the selected urban elements can be specifically scrutinized with the content analysis. Further study will focus on the historical urban form within the Malay Peninsula.

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IMPACT OF URBAN FORM ON ENERGY USE IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES - A CASE STUDY APPROACH

10.15396/eres2008_170 ◽

2008 ◽

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Urban Form ◽

Energy Use ◽

Case Study Approach ◽

Study Approach

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Morphological Change of Dhaka City Over a Period of 55 Years: A Case Study of Two Wards

Journal of Bangladesh Institute of Planners ◽

10.3329/jbip.v2i0.9554 ◽

1970 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

pp. 30-38 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Bayes Ahmed ◽

Muhammad Rakibul Hasan Raj ◽

KM Maniruzzaman

Keyword(s):

Urban Form ◽

Spatial Dynamics ◽

Morphological Structure ◽

General Interest ◽

Morphologic Change ◽

Dhaka City ◽

Territorial Expansion ◽

Physical Form ◽

The Many

Dhaka City has undergone radical changes in its physical form, not only by territorial expansion, but also through internal physical transformations over the last decades. These have created entirely new kinds of fabric. With these changes, the elements of urban form have changed. Plots and open spaces have been transformed into building areas, open squares into car parks, low land and water bodies into reclaimed built-up lands etc. This research has its general interest in the morphologic change of Dhaka City. It focuses on the spatial dynamics of urban growth of Dhaka over the last 55 years from 1952-2007. In the research, the transformation of urban form has been examined through space syntax. The aim behind using this technique is to describe aspects of relationships between the morphological structure of man-made environments and social structures and events. To conduct this research, Wards 49 and 72 of Dhaka City Corporation were selected as the study areas, of which Ward 72 is an indigenous and Ward 49 is a planned type of settlement. Being a planned residential area, the syntactic measures from this morphological analysis are showing quite unchanged and high values in all phases for Ward 49 and the physical characteristics of Ward 72 (Old Dhaka) still represent the past. The syntactic values are found to be higher for Ward 72 and than Ward 49. Higher values indicate that the street network is highly connective among each other. Time affects differently the layout of cities and the architecture of buildings. Of the many human creations, street systems are among the most resistant to change. This has been emphasized in this study, thereby facilitating the comparison of urban layouts across space and time. The interpretation of history in the light of quantitative accounts, as demonstrated in this study, will be of value to urban planners and urban designers for the future planning of modern Dhaka City.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jbip.v2i0.9554 Journal of Bangladesh Institute of Planners Vol. 2, December 2009, pp. 30-38

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ASSESSMENT OF URBAN SPRAWL USING SHANNON’S ENTROPY AND FRACTAL ANALYSIS: A CASE STUDY OF ATAKUM, ILKADIM AND CANIK (SAMSUN, TURKEY)

Journal of Environmental Engineering and Landscape Management ◽

10.3846/16486897.2016.1233881 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 25 (3) ◽

pp. 264-276 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Derya OZTURK

Keyword(s):

Urban Sprawl ◽

Fractal Analysis ◽

Urban Form ◽

Entropy Method ◽

Shannon’S Entropy ◽

Analysis Method ◽

Maximum Likelihood Classification ◽

Shannon's Entropy ◽

Box Counting

Urban sprawl is one of the most important problems in urban development due to its negative environmental and societal impacts. Therefore, the spatial pattern of urban growth should be accurately analyzed and well understood for effective urban planning. This paper focuses on urban sprawl analysis in the Atakum, Ilkadim and Canik districts of Samsun, Turkey. In this study, urban sprawl was examined over a period of 24 years using Shannon's entropy and fractal analysis based on remote sensing and Geographic Information System (GIS). The built-up areas in 1989, 2000 and 2013 were extracted from Landsat TM/ETM+/OLI images using the maximum likelihood classification method, and urban form changes in the 1989–2013 period were investigated. The Shannon's entropy method was used to determine the degree of urban sprawl, and a fractal analysis method based on box counting was used to characterize the urban sprawl. The results show that Atakum, Ilkadim and Canik experienced important changes and have considerable sprawl and complex characteristics now. The study also revealed that there is no monotonic relationship between Shannon's entropy and fractal dimension.

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