On the discovery of urban typologies: Data mining the many dimensions of urban form

Urban Morphology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 27-40

  Gil, Jorge ^a   Beirão, José Nuno ^a,b   Montenegro, Nuno ^b   Duarte, José Pinto ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Data mining; GIS; Urban design; Urban typologies

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; GIS; PLANNING PRACTICE; RESEARCH WORK; TYPOLOGY; URBAN AREA; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN MORPHOLOGY; URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 84858401417     PISSN: 10274278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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