Urban Fabric Types in Osaka-Kobe Metropolitan Area

This upload provides the processed results of Multiple Fabric Assessment (Araldi and Fusco, 2019) performed on a hyper-urbanized region of 2,500 km² in Japan and including Osaka and Kobe municipalities. The scale of analysis are the areas surrounding urban streets at close distance, which are named proximity bands. Outputs are made available using a geospatial vector data format (GeoPackage - WGS 84/UTM zone 53N) in order to be visualized in a geographic information system software. Attribute data contain the Bayesian probability assignment of each proximity band for the nine urban fabric types that have been identified in the Osaka-Kobe metropolitan area, namely, (1) High-rise and discontinuous modern fabric (2) Discontinuous mid-to-high-rise fabric of mixed land use (3-4) Peripheral low-to-mid-rise discontinuous mixed fabric (5) Industrial and logistic techno-fabrics (6) Residential hyper-compact continuous fabric (7) Residential compact continuous fabric (8) suburban planned single-house residential fabric (9) ex-urban irregular fabric with natural spaces. “MostProb” variable provides the higher probability of each proximity band, which is the main output cross analyzed with field observations in Perez <em>et al.,</em> 2019. Results are based upon the processing of morphological indicators calculated using the following datasets: 2013/14 Zmap-TOWN II (ZENRIN Residential Maps) for building coverage and Digital Road Map Database extended version 2015. Perez J., Araldi A., Fusco G., Fuse T. (2019) “The Character of Urban Japan: Overview of Osaka-Kobe’s Cityscapes”, <em>Urban Science</em>, 3(105), pp 1-22. https://www.mdpi.com/2413-8851/3/4/105 Araldi A., Fusco G. (2019) “From the built environment along the street to the metropolitan region. Human perspective approach in urban fabric analysis<em>”. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science</em>, 46(7), pp. 1243-1263.