The Fuzzy Boundary
The Spatial Definition of Urban Areas
Paperback
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ISBN-13:
9783659820168
Veröffentl:
2017
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.08.2017
Seiten:
356
Autor:
Tao Yang
Gewicht:
548 g
Format:
220x150x22 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
What, in terms of space, is an urban area as part of a whole city? And, how do the areas aggregate to form the whole? This book proposes that the discontinuities between urban areas can be typically considered as what we will call fuzzy boundaries that arise from the way space is structured internally and how this relates to the external structure of space. Fuzzy boundaries can be effective in supporting functional differentiation of areas, but do not depend on the area being either spatially self contained or geometrically differentiated, or having clear spatial limits. It is the syntactic relations of all individual spaces and their multi-scale contexts that account for the spatial definition and aggregation of urban areas.