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Urban Typologies: A Research Coordination Network

Explore the multidimensionality of cities and develop operational typologies to group similar cities without obscuring important differences. Utilize qualitative and quantitative methods, including conceptual models, literature analysis, surveys, and statistical cluster analysis.

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Urban Typologies: A Research Coordination Network

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  1. Urban Typologies - Research Coordination Network Valerie Moye and Marian Chertow Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

  2. Introduction

  3. “ One of the most salient features of a city, its multidimensionality, has made the development of city typologies a complex and uncertain process … ” Bruce and Witt 1971

  4. “… The typologist must include enough dimensions to encompass all important city phenomena while at the same time avoiding the particularlisticfallacy…” Bruce and Witt 1971

  5. “… He/she must also define an operationally workable numbers of categories or types which group relatively homogenous cities without obscuring important differences among cities.” Bruce and Witt 1971

  6. Preliminary Findings Qualitative Methods – Conceptual Models Theory development Literature analysis Surveys Quantitative Methods – Statistical cluster analysis Hierarchical K-means Bai and Imura 2000 Salvador-Sali 2010

  7. Political Economy Land Use & Urban Form Socio- demographic Urban Metabolism

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