Defining and generating axial lines from street center lines for better understanding of urban morphologies

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1521-1532

  Liu, Xintao ^a   Jiang, Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

head tail division rule; space syntax; street networks; traffic

Indexed keywords

GRAPHICAL METHOD; NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; URBAN MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 84864696253     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2011.643800     Document Type: Article

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