ARALDI , Alessandro

This doctoral dissertation analyses and discusses the relationship between the spatial distribution of retail and urban form. More precisely, in this work, we focus on the spatial statistical relationships which occur between the localisation of small and average-sized stores and the physical properties of the urban form in the metropolitan...

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The street is the support of the urbanity par excellence.

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Recent metropolitan growth produces new kinds of urban fabric, revealing different logics in the organization of urban space, but coexistingwith more traditional urban fabrics in central cities and older suburbs. Having an overall view of the spatial patterns of urban fabrics in a vast metropolitan area is paramount for understanding the...

A set of morphological indicators is proposed to identify urban fabric using spatial clustering. The LINCS approach is preferred to classical LISA in order to better integrate the point of view of pedestrians moving in the city. Some morphological indicators like land coverage are rates and this poses the well-known problem of rate variability...

The urban fabric is a fundamental small-scale component of urban form. Its quantitative analysis has so far been limited either in its geographical extent or in the diversity of components analysed. Moreover, the planning approach has traditionally privileged an aerial perspective. A new approach integrating the pedestrian point of view is...

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With this paper, we propose and test on empirical case studies a new method of analysis of the form of urban fabric from the pedestrian point of view, mixing the relations considered by classical urban morphology with the computational possibilities of geoprocessing. We consider the two main activities that humans do in the space...

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Urban retail distribution within the urban space contributes to the vitality and economic prosperity of streets and neighborhoods. Moreover, different retail patterns represent the specific outcome of the surrounding socioeconomic fabric. Several models of retail activity distribution have been proposed in the scientific literature of economic...

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Several models of retail activity distribution have been proposed in the scientific literature. Despite the large debate on their validity, few empirical studies have been proposed. Micro retail location data have been ana-lyzed with different approaches; point pattern analysis methodologies have recently been presented as a way to detect...

Retail geographers and urban morphologists investigated the relationship between the distribution of retail activities and urban form over the last century developing a large variety of approaches and methods. Retail geography traditionally focuses on the locational factors of retail localization, often overlooking the importance of the...

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Il tessuto urbano è l'aspetto della forma urbana più facilmente relazionabile alla percezione e all'esperienza degli utenti della città. L'identificazione e la caratterizzazione oggettiva dei tessuti diventa interessante ogniqualvolta se ne voglia analizzare la relazione con fenomeni socioeconomici all'interno di una città. A tal fine è...

The "revenge" of urban form Functionalist urban planning overlooked the role of urban form in shaping urban phenomena. Spatial analysis of cities followed the same route, focalizing on function localization.

Retail distribution in the city has to be analyzed taking into consideration the network structure of urban space. What is more, street networks in contemporary cities vary in intensity and configuration over space. The concept of heterogeneity referred to point patterns is often associated to the heterogeneity of its intensity distribution....

Cities are the overlay of morpho-functional patterns evolving in time and space. When exploring urban space, city users are exposed to a diversity of cityscapes alternating vernacular centres, modernist developments, sprawling suburbia and very specific exurbs. The diverse forms of the urban fabric influence the functioning of cities, human...

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Multiple fabric assessment (MFA) is a computer-aided procedure designed for identifying and characterizing urban fabric types (morphotypes) from a street-based perspective. Nonetheless, the original MFA presents some limitations: it relies on surface-based descriptors, conceived as proxy variables for the pedestrian perspective in urban form...

This paper explores the emerging paradigm of alternative food networks (AFN), with a focus on AMAP (Association pour le Maintien de l'Agriculture Paysanne) in France as a case study. Delving into the multifaceted concept of spatial proximity within such networks, this paper explores three hypotheses drawn from literature on the spatiality of...

This paper presents a multi-scale detection of urban fabric types through Multiple Fabric Assessment in Marseille, France's second city. MFA is a computer-aided streetscape-based urban morphometric protocol for morphological regionalization of large urban areas. First presented at ISUF 2017, MFA has already been successfully applied to the...