Urban texture and space configuration: An essay on integrating socio-spatial analytical techniques

Cities

Volumn 39, Issue , 2014, Pages 58-67

  Amorim, Luiz Manuel do Eirado ^a   Barros Filho, Mauro Normando Macedo ^b   Cruz, Débora ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINA GRANDE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Image texture analysis; Lacunarity; Space syntax; Urban morphology

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPPING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN MORPHOLOGY; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN SOCIETY;

EID: 84896110778     PISSN: 02642751     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2014.02.001     Document Type: Article

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