These maps present a result of a research presented in the manuscript Methodological Foundation of a Numerical Taxonomy of Urban Form. They represent types of urban form automatically detected using urban morphometrics and their taxonomy - hierarchical classification based on the similarity of the types.
The legend shows the dendrogram representing the results of Ward’s hierarchical clustering of urban form types from a combined pool of Prague and Amsterdam. Its y-axis shows cophenetic distance between individual clusters, i.e. their morphometric dis-similarity. Branches are interpretatively coloured - the colours are then used on maps illustrating spatial distribution of these branches.
For details see the original paper or the code & data repository.
Fleischmann M, Feliciotti A, Romice O and Porta S (2021) Methodological Foundation of a Numerical Taxonomy of Urban Form. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. doi: 10.1177/23998083211059835
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