Fractal assessment of street-level skylines: A possible means of assessing and comparing character

Urban Morphology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 73-82

  Cooper, Jon ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Character; Complexity; Fractal dimension; Skyline; Urban design; Urban morphology

Indexed keywords

FRACTAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 0142168110     PISSN: 10274278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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