Ref: Wang F, Antipova A, Porta S, 2010, Street centrality and land use intensity in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Journal of Transport Geography, In press. *** *** This paper examines the relationship between street centrality and land use intensity in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Street centrality is calibrated in terms of …
Ref: Porta S, Strano E, Iacoviello V, Messora R, Latora V, Cardillo V, Wang F, Scellato S, 2009, Street centrality and densities of retail and services in Bologna, Italy, Environment and Planning B, 36, 450-465. *** *** This paper examines the relationship between street centrality and densities of commercial and …
Ref: Morello E, Ratti C, 2009, Sunscapes: ‘Solar envelopes’ and the analysis of urban DEMs, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 33, pp.26-34. *** *** The aim of this paper is twofold: first, it simplifies ‘solar envelope’ calculations, making them easier to carry out over extensive urban areas; second, the proposed …
Ref: Porta S, 2008, The World’s Longest Mistake: Sustainable Urban Design and the Renovation of Social Housing Estates: Also a Disciplinary Problem, Urban scrawl, 2, pp.18-21. Download the paper. *** *** Italy is not somewhere that you associate with modernist planning. However while most Italian citizens managed to avoided …
Ref: Porta S. (2008), Analytical tools for time-conscious urban design, in Thwaites K, Romice O, Porta S, Greaves M, Urban Sustainability through Environmental Design, A module in the “Gateways to the Professions” Postgraduate Cross-disciplinary Online Urban Design Programme, Echelon learning Ltd, Reading UK. Download the paper. *** *** This …
Ref: Porta S, Latora V. (2008), The spatial analysis of urban systems: Multiple Centrality Assessment and the dynamics on street networks, in Hasic T (ed), ‘New Urbanism and beyond: the future of urban design’, Rizzoli International, New York, NY. Download the paper. *** *** How can we understand where …
Ref: Porta S, Crucitti P, Latora V (2008), Multiple Centrality Assessment in Parma: a network analysis of paths and open spaces, «Urban Design International», 2008. Download the paper. *** *** This paper got published only in 2008 but was actually written and submitted two years earlier, in 2006. One …
Ref: Porta S, Latora V (2007), Multiple Centrality Assessment: centralità e ordine complesso nell’analisi spaziale e nel progetto urbano, «Territorio», 39, 189-202. Download the paper *** *** «Non c’è spesso così tanta perfezione nei lavori composti di molte parti e realizzati dalla mano di diversi maestri quanto in quelli …
Ref: Porta S, Crucitti P, Latora V (2006), Analyse du réseau des voiries urbaines: une approche directe, «Géomatique Expert», 53, 56-71. Download the paper *** *** «Entre lesquelles l’une des premières fut que je m’avisai de considérer que souvent il n’y a pas tant de perfection dans les ouvrages …
Ref: Porta S, Crucitti P, Latora V. (2006), The network analysis of urban streets: a primal approach, «Environment and Planning B: planning and design», 33 5, 705-725. Download the paper *** *** The network metaphor in the analysis of urban and territorial cases has a long tradition, especially in …
