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Exploring the relationship between compact urban form and green infrastructure

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posted on 2023-08-04, 08:10 authored by Lixu Liu, Falli Palaiologou, Robert Schmidt-IIIRobert Schmidt-III

Compact Urban Form (CUF) and Green Infrastructure (GI) are widely used in sustainability approaches. GI can be understood as a system of green components (e.g. parks, gardens, allotments, etc.) and has multiple benefits for the green and blue urban agendas. Alongside, CUF is an effective strategy used to address urban sprawl. The integration of the two approaches is challenging due to the limited availability of space in CUF and the lack of an analysis of existing and potential GI offerings in compact built environments. This paper looks at the relationship between urban form patterns and green space patterns at the urban scale. It seeks to identify the variables that can describe the compactness and greenness of CUF and the structure of GI, the typologies of CUF and GI, and their potential interrelationships. The method introduces selected variables for quantitative description of CUF and GI, and cluster-based typologies of CUF and GI based on the reproduced components. The three pattern variables are identified (using statistical analysis and spatial analysis) for CUF and GI respectively based on the degree of the greenness, density (e.g. Berghauser Pont and Haupt, 2007), landscape structure (FRAGSTATS) and space syntax measurements (e.g. connectivity). Subsequently, the clusters of CUF and GI are generated using fuzzy c-means clustering analysis (FCM). The method is applied to London, UK. Overall, this paper introduces a quantitative approach to understand CUF and GI as well as their relationship. The methods – which are reproducible because of the use of open-access data – take a fundamental step towards a deeper understanding of the way compact urban fabrics can become greener by activating and embedding green networks into the urban fabric.

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

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ISUF Annual Conference Proceedings of the XXVIII International Seminar on Urban Form : "Urban Form and the Sustainable and Prosperous City"

Pages

576 - 583

Source

XXVIII International Seminar on Urban Form

Publisher

University of Strathclyde Publishing

Version

  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publisher statement

This is an Open Access conference paper. It is published by University of Strathclyde Publishing under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Publication date

2022-04-08

Copyright date

2022

ISBN

9781914241161

Language

  • en

Editor(s)

Alessandra Feliciotti; Martin Fleischmann

Location

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Event dates

29th June 2021 - 3rd July 2021

Depositor

Dr Falli Palaiologou. Deposit date: 2 August 2023

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