FUSE , Takashi

Metropolitan regions are very complex spaces for geographical analysis, above all due to their strong heterogeneity at the intra-urban level. This paper presents the progresses made by Multiple Fabric Assessment (MFA), a method specifically conceived for describing urban fabrics from the pedestrian perspective. To sum up, standard spatial units...

Japan is characterized by a massive urbanization rate (93.0%) and a system of cities mostly made of a limited number of overlapping and dense megapolises. Within these hyper-urbanized spaces, distinctions between urban fabric types are becoming harder and harder to identify. This is not only due to the accumulation over time of different layers...

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Around the world, cultural and societal differences have a non-negligible impact on the way cities are built and especially on building's physical shapes. In a transnational context, detailed expert knowledge is not always available, hence the need of identifying typologies of buildings. This paper presents the application of a Bayesian...