Test three morphological methods to delineate cities

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.<br>Description of each file<br>2_Figure_1: theoretical street network for testing the Natural Cities method<br>3_Figure_2: theoretical street network for the comparison of two variants of the Natural Cities method<br>4_Figure_3: theoretical street network to evaluate the effects of the spatial extent of the study area on the delineation of Natural Cities<br>5_Figure_5a: theoretical pattern for testing MorphoLim (building footprints) – dense urban core<br>6_Figure_5b: theoretical pattern for testing MorphoLim (building footprints) – less dense urban core<br>7_Figure_6: theoretical pattern (building footprints) to evaluate the effects of the geographic extent of the study area on the delineation with MorphoLim<br>8_Percolation_C_Calculation: R code to calculate the carrying capacity of a logistic function (Hierarchical Percolation)<br>9_Figure_7: theoretical street network for testing Hierarchical Percolation<br>10_Figure_8: theoretical polycentric street network for testing Hierarchical Percolation <br>11_Figure_9ac: theoretical urban pattern crossed by a large non built area (road intersections)<br>12_Figure_9b: theoretical urban pattern crossed by a large non built area (building footprints)<br>13_Figure_10ac: theoretical pattern where a built ribbon links two urban centres (roads intersections )<br>14_Figure_10b: theoretical pattern where a built ribbon links two urban centres (building footprints)<br>15_Belgium_buildings: cadastral data of buildings (2D) for Belgium (© 2009 Administration Générale de la Documentation Patrimoniale)<br>16_Brabant_buildings: cadastral data of buildings (2D) for the province of Brabant (© 2009 Administration Générale de la Documentation Patrimoniale)<br>17_Belgium_roads: road network data come from the platform Geofabrik of OpenStreetMap (http://download.geofabrik.de, accessed 08/21/2018) for Belgium<br>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.<br>