Ample research has been conducted investigating the built environment impacts on
pedestrian movement (PM). A clear division is also evident in the literature on this topic: one …

Urbanization identifies the contemporary city as the crucible of human condition. This
tendency elicits the issue of the ways in which the built environment affects human …

Depthmap embodies a theory of the city, as well as being a method for analysing the city. By
solving outstanding problems of the normalisation of measures, most notably syntactic …

Cycling is a climate-friendly, cost-effective, and greenhouse gas-efficient transport mode that
produces relevant positive aspects to: urban innovation (new technology and services, that …

The spatial behaviour of tourists within cities is not well understood, partly because of the
complexities of cities as spaces and partly because few studies have addressed this …

We take the first step in the development of a new field of research with the aim of merging
spatial morphology and resilience science. This involves a revisiting and reunderstanding of …

The coronavirus pandemic entailed varying restrictions on access, movement and social
behavior in populations around the world. Knowledge about how people coped with “soft …

This research proposes an index, called Campus Score, which measures the main physical
qualities of university campuses. Campus Score is composed of three latent variables …

Typologies have always played an important role in urban planning and design practice and
formal studies have been central to the field of urban morphology. These studies have …

A methodology is proposed for assessing the physical form of urban areas. Termed morpho,
it deals with fundamental elements of urban form: streets, plots and buildings. It includes …