Urban Desing

This edited volume provides an essential resource for urban morphology, the study of urban forms and structures, offering a much-needed mathematical perspective. Experts on a variety of mathematical modeling techniques provide new insights into specific aspects of the field, such as street networks, sustainability, and urban growth. The chapters collected here make a clear case for the importance of tools and methods to understand, model, and simulate the formation and evolution of cities.

Editors: Thakuriah, Piyushimita (Vonu), Tilahun, Nebiyou, Zellner, Moira (Eds.)
There is limited published work on the state of the art of the use of Big Data for urban research; this book fills that gap by presenting novel ways of using Big Data for urban informatics
This book brings together experts from multidisciplinary fields and provides the state of the art in the different aspects of using Big Data in urban applications
Incorporates research into major data quality issues, frameworks, metrics and methods to be used for data quality assessment and also discusses fundamental limitations in Big Data-based urban social science research
Discusses novel ways of using Big Data towards planning and management of urban areas to meet sustainability, resilience, and intelligent resource utilization goals
Provides insight into how Big Data resources are being used to get a more fine-grained understanding of urban processes and dynamics, with the goal of developing theories or hypothesis to stimulate future empirical research

This edited volume provides an essential resource for urban morphology, the study of urban forms and structures, offering a much-needed mathematical perspective. Experts on a variety of mathematical modeling techniques provide new insights into specific aspects of the field, such as street networks, sustainability, and urban growth. The chapters collected here make a clear case for the importance of tools and methods to understand, model, and simulate the formation and evolution of cities.

The social and material production of urban nature has recently emerged as an important area in urban studies, human/environmental interactions and social studies. This has been prompted by the recognition that the material conditions that comprise urban environments are not independent from social, political, and economic processes, or from the cultural construction of what constitutes the ‘urban’ or the ‘natural’. Through both theoretical and empirical analysis, this groundbreaking collection offers an integrated and relational approach to untangling the interconnected processes involved in forming urban landscapes.