Martin Fleischmann

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@martinfleis

How we arrange “stuff” in cities matters…

Source: A map of every building in America (New York Times)

… it matters a lot

Urban Form

What does it look like?
“Physical structure and appearance of cities”

What do we talk about…

… when we talk about urban morphology?

buildings
streets
plots
open spaces

How can we describe it…

… numerically?

Urban morphometrics

“quantitative analysis of urban form”

All about measuring.

Measuring

dimension
shape
spatial distribution
intensity
connectivity
diversity

Why?

Because we (finally) can!

Data

Tools

GeoPandas
PySAL
momepy

GeoPandas

GeoPandas is an open source project to add support for geographic data to pandas objects.

geopandas.org

PySAL

Python Spatial Analysis Library

pysal.org

momepy

Urban Morphology Measuring Toolkit Member of a PySAL family
momepy.org

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