The History & Stories analytical group focuses on the relevant history of the study area, focusing mainly on changes in the Urban Form over time. This is done through a demonstration of the changes in buildings and blocks. This analytical group also gathered information about life in the time and …
When planning for the development of an area, be this for its growth, downgrade, or simply for the rationalization of its current state, GIS tools are very useful in that they can offer an effective representation of the interaction between socio, economic and physical factors. The Community Potential Analysis is …
Ref: Gimenez, J. Amabile, L. Graham, S. (2011) Barras: and experiement, Working Papers of the Urban Design Studies Unit at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. *** *** Go to the document on line “Urban” relates to the density and physical character of the built environment; its economic and societal …
Ref: Porta, S. Da Fontoura Costa, L. Morello, E. Viana, M., Strano, E. Venerandi, A. Romice, O. (2011), Plot-Based-Urbanism and Urban Morphometrics: Measuring the Evolution of Blocks, Street Fronts and Plots in Cities, Working Papers of the Urban Design Studies Unit at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. PDF is avaialbe here. Generative …
Ref: Porta, S. Romice, O. (2010), Plot-Based Urbanism: Towards Time-Consciousness in Place-Making, Working Papers of the Urban Design Studies Unit at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. Download Plot-Based Urbanism. Some of us have recently argued that what we still miss is the serious consideration of the factor of time in urbanism, or, in …
Ref: Porta, S. Latora, V. Wang, F. Rueda, S. Strano, E. Scellato, S. Cardillo, A. Belli, E. Cardenas, F. Cormenzana, B. Latora, L. (2011), Street Centrality and the Location of Economic Activities in Barcelona, «Urban Studies», May 2012; vol. 49, 7: pp. 1471-1488. *** *** Download the paper. The …
We made it. It seemed impossible, but we made it. Doing it better than last year looked really difficult, as the students’ feedback was excellent after our Govan course in 2009-2010. And here we go, This is our students’ feedback 2010-2011, which refers to our course at the Barras. After all, …
Michael Mehaffy will lecture on “SUSTAINABLE URBAN FORM: The Modern Structure of Walkable Cities”. The lecture will take place at Department of Architecture of University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, on Tuesday May 10th at 6.00pm. The event, partnered by Glasgow City Council and the Sustainable Glasgow Initiative, will be opened by …
UDSU, in partnership with ICSS Institute of Complex System at Strathclyde, organizes the Evolution of Complex Transportation Networks (ECTN) Workshop to be held at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, on 29-30 August 2011. The list of invited speaker includes: Dr. Marc Barthélemy Institute of Theoretical Physics, CEA, Saclay, France. Prof. Andy …
Sergio and Eugenio are going to present a paper entitled “Urban Morphometrics: Measuring the principal components of the city block morphospace”, authored with Emanuele, Andrea and Ombretta, at the ISUF 2011 Conference in Montreal, CA, next August 26-29 August 2011. The paper presents a first collection of results of 3 …
