Understanding the whole city as landscape. A multivariate approach to urban landscape morphology
The European Landscape Convention implies a requirement for signatory states to identify their urban landscapes which goes beyond the traditional focus on individual parks and green spaces and the links between them. Landscape ecological approaches can provide a useful model for identifying urban l...
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| author | Richard Stiles Beatrix Gasienica‐Wawrytko Katrin Hagen Heidelinde Trimmel Wolfgang Loibl Tanja Tötzer Mario Köstl Stephan Pauleit Annike Schirmann Wolfgang Feilmayr |
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The European Landscape Convention implies a requirement for signatory states to identify their urban landscapes which goes beyond the traditional focus on individual parks and green spaces and the links between them. Landscape ecological approaches can provide a useful model for identifying urban landscape types across a whole territory, but the variables relevant for urban landscapes are very different to those usually addressing rural areas. This paper presents an approach to classifying the urban landscape of Vienna that was developed in a research project funded by the Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology: ‘Urban Fabric and Microclimate Response’. Nine landscape types and a number of sub-types were defined, using a multivariate statistical approach which takes account of both morphological and urban climate related variables. Although the variables were selected to objectively reflect the factors that could best represent the urban climatic characteristics of the urban landscape, the results also provided a widely plausible representation of the structure of the city’s landscapes. Selected examples of the landscape types that were defined in this way were used both to simulate current microclimatic conditions and also to model the effects of possible climatic amelioration measures. Finally the paper looks forward to developing a more general-purpose urban landscape typology that allows investigating a much broader complex of urban landscape functions.
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| spelling | doaj.art-4261e027ad7346f0bac790bb11058fac2022-12-22T03:50:13ZengStichting OpenAccessSpool2215-08972215-09002014-05-0111Understanding the whole city as landscape. A multivariate approach to urban landscape morphologyRichard Stiles0Beatrix Gasienica‐Wawrytko1Katrin Hagen2Heidelinde Trimmel3Wolfgang Loibl4Tanja Tötzer5Mario Köstl6Stephan Pauleit7Annike Schirmann8Wolfgang Feilmayr9Vienna University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture and Regional PlanningVienna University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture and Regional PlanningVienna University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture and Regional PlanningVienna University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture and Regional PlanningAIT Austrian Institute of TechnologyAIT Austrian Institute of TechnologyAIT Austrian Institute of TechnologyTechnische Universität München, Chair for Strategic Landscape Planning and ManagementTechnische Universität München, Chair for Strategic Landscape Planning and ManagementVienna University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture and Regional Planning The European Landscape Convention implies a requirement for signatory states to identify their urban landscapes which goes beyond the traditional focus on individual parks and green spaces and the links between them. Landscape ecological approaches can provide a useful model for identifying urban landscape types across a whole territory, but the variables relevant for urban landscapes are very different to those usually addressing rural areas. This paper presents an approach to classifying the urban landscape of Vienna that was developed in a research project funded by the Austrian Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology: ‘Urban Fabric and Microclimate Response’. Nine landscape types and a number of sub-types were defined, using a multivariate statistical approach which takes account of both morphological and urban climate related variables. Although the variables were selected to objectively reflect the factors that could best represent the urban climatic characteristics of the urban landscape, the results also provided a widely plausible representation of the structure of the city’s landscapes. Selected examples of the landscape types that were defined in this way were used both to simulate current microclimatic conditions and also to model the effects of possible climatic amelioration measures. Finally the paper looks forward to developing a more general-purpose urban landscape typology that allows investigating a much broader complex of urban landscape functions. https://www.spool.ac/index.php/spool/article/view/9 |
| spellingShingle | Richard Stiles Beatrix Gasienica‐Wawrytko Katrin Hagen Heidelinde Trimmel Wolfgang Loibl Tanja Tötzer Mario Köstl Stephan Pauleit Annike Schirmann Wolfgang Feilmayr Understanding the whole city as landscape. A multivariate approach to urban landscape morphology Spool |
| title | Understanding the whole city as landscape. A multivariate approach to urban landscape morphology |
| title_full | Understanding the whole city as landscape. A multivariate approach to urban landscape morphology |
| title_fullStr | Understanding the whole city as landscape. A multivariate approach to urban landscape morphology |
| title_full_unstemmed | Understanding the whole city as landscape. A multivariate approach to urban landscape morphology |
| title_short | Understanding the whole city as landscape. A multivariate approach to urban landscape morphology |
| title_sort | understanding the whole city as landscape a multivariate approach to urban landscape morphology |
| url | https://www.spool.ac/index.php/spool/article/view/9 |
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