Test three morphological methods to delineate cities

Contributors: Gaëtan Montero, Cécile Tannier, Isabelle Thomas Date:2019-16-10 Description: This data set can be used to reproduce the analyses made by the authors in their paper “Morphological delineation of cities based on scaling properties of urban patterns: a comparison of three methods”. It contains 12 shapefiles that represent theoretical urban patterns and 4 shapefiles that can be used to delineate the morphological agglomeration of Brussels (Belgium). It also contains a R script to calculate the carrying capacity of a logistic percolation function. Description of each file 2_Figure_1: theoretical street network for testing the Natural Cities method 3_Figure_2: theoretical street network for the comparison of two variants of the Natural Cities method 4_Figure_3: theoretical street network to evaluate the effects of the spatial extent of the study area on the delineation of Natural Cities 5_Figure_5a: theoretical pattern for testing MorphoLim (building footprints) – dense urban core 6_Figure_5b: theoretical pattern for testing MorphoLim (building footprints) – less dense urban core 7_Figure_6: theoretical pattern (building footprints) to evaluate the effects of the geographic extent of the study area on the delineation with MorphoLim 8_Percolation_C_Calculation: R code to calculate the carrying capacity of a logistic function (Hierarchical Percolation) 9_Figure_7: theoretical street network for testing Hierarchical Percolation 10_Figure_8: theoretical polycentric street network for testing Hierarchical Percolation 11_Figure_9ac: theoretical urban pattern crossed by a large non built area (road intersections) 12_Figure_9b: theoretical urban pattern crossed by a large non built area (building footprints) 13_Figure_10ac: theoretical pattern where a built ribbon links two urban centres (roads intersections ) 14_Figure_10b: theoretical pattern where a built ribbon links two urban centres (building footprints) 15_Belgium_buildings: cadastral data of buildings (2D) for Belgium (© 2009 Administration Générale de la Documentation Patrimoniale) 16_Brabant_buildings: cadastral data of buildings (2D) for the province of Brabant (© 2009 Administration Générale de la Documentation Patrimoniale) 17_Belgium_roads: road network data come from the platform Geofabrik of OpenStreetMap (http://download.geofabrik.de, accessed 08/21/2018) for Belgium 18_Brabant_roads: Road network data come from the platform Geofabrik of OpenStreetMap (http://download.geofabrik.de, accessed 08/21/2018) for the province of Brabant.