Spatial openness as a practical metric for evaluating built-up environments

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 37-49

  Fisher Gewirtzman, Dafna ^a   Wagner, Israel A ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; OPEN SPACE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 0037219653     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/b12861     Document Type: Article

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