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Resilient Urban Form Assessment – Burgage Cycle and Morphometry

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Over the years, cities and urban districts undergo constant transformations. Some areas are in their prime; others experience stagnation or, in the extreme case, collapse. We aim to contribute to the definition of the concept of urban resilience. Our goal is to expand its understanding from the normative perspective of urban design. We propose the method based on contemporary research in morphometrics. Our starting point is the Conzenian process of the burgage cycle. We begin with the approach developed by Marek Koter for several streets in Lodz. We expand the method further and relate it to the well-recognised attributes of urban resilience, i.e. diversity, connectivity, redundancy and modularity. Moreover, the key issue of this study was the proper relationship between the front width, plot area and Building Coverage Ratio (BCR). The case study showcases the method applying it to the case study of Zachodnia Street in Lodz, Poland.

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    Malgorzata Hanzl & Kamil Kowalski

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  2. University of Basilicata, Potenza, Potenza, Italy

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  3. Covenant University, Ota, Nigeria

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  4. University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy

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Hanzl, M., Kowalski, K. (2021). Resilient Urban Form Assessment – Burgage Cycle and Morphometry. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2021. ICCSA 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12958. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87016-4_35

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