On the 3rd of December, the EORC will host its last EORC Talk for this year and gladly invites you to join.
Martin Fleischmann – lead of the research team on Urban Structures at the Charles University in Prague – will talk about “Understanding the structure of space: urban morphometrics as a backbone of urban taxonomy“.
Abstract: Built environments, formed of a plethora of patterns of building, streets, and plots, have a profound impact on how cities are perceived and function. While various methods exist to classify urban patterns, they often lack a strong theoretical foundation, are not scalable beyond a local level, or sacrifice detail for broader application. This talk outlines the Hierarchical Morphotope Classification (HiMoC), a novel, theory-driven, and computationally scalable method of classification of built form. HiMoC operationalizes the idea of a morphotope – the smallest locality with a distinctive character – using a bespoke regionalization method to delineate contiguous, morphologically distinct localities. These are further organized into a hierarchical taxonomic tree reflecting their dissimilarity based on morphometric profile derived from buildings and streets retrieved from open data, allowing flexible, interpretable classification of built fabric that can be applied beyond a scale of a single country. The resulting classification is a foundation of the Urban Taxonomy, a project that aims to understand the structure of cities, currently covering a subset of countries in Europe, grouping over 170 million building footprints into over 1,000,000 morphotopes, and those into a flexible tree. In this talk, you will learn how the urban taxonomy is generated, what it can tell about the ways we have built our cities, and how you can interact with it yourself.
The talk will be given in presence at the EORC on Wednesday, 03rd of December, 04 p.m. | Seminar room 1 (00.B.04), John-Skilton-Str. 4a
Would you also like to give a talk in the EORC Talk series and network with staff, students, and other people interested in remote sensing and ecological and environmental research? Contact via sarah.schoenbrodt-stitt@uni-wuerzburg.de
