The urban structural unit: Towards a descriptive framework to support urban analysis and planning

Urban Morphology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 5-20

  Osmond, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hierarchy; Scale; Space syntax; Urban form; Urban structural unit

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; OPEN SPACE; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN MORPHOLOGY; URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 77950658460     PISSN: 10274278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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