The geometry of urban layouts : a global comparative study

• Main Author: Rashid, Mahbub, 1964- (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland : Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: urbanismus; kartografie; krajinné plánování; city planning; cartography; landscape planning; elektronické knihy; monografie; electronic books; monographs
• ISBN: 9783319307503; 9783319307480
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 453 pages) : illustrations (some color)

This book presents a compendium of the urban layout maps of 2-mile square downtown areas of more than one hundred cities in developed and developing countries-all drawn at the same scale using high-resolution satellite images of Google Maps. The book also presents analytic studies using metric geome...