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Generating urban fabric in the orthogonal or non-orthogonal urban landscape

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  • Qingyu Gong
  • Jingzhu Li
  • Tong Liu
  • Na Wang

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Urban designers find it virtually impossible to (re)construct self-organising urban fabric formed by a synthesis of various builders. Here we show how generic, bottom-up grammars represent historic urban fabric in a unique context, and how shape rules are embedded in the evolutionary context. This paper generalises and formalises a context-free grammar and a context-sensitive grammar to describe and design two broadly categorised (i.e. orthogonal and non-orthogonal) urban patterns. Both grammars are constructive and employ morphological parameters to govern the patterning towards a desired form. The context-free grammar describes the density and aggregation of built forms while the context-sensitive grammar represents the interactions between streets and plots. Both grammars were applied to preserve the figure-ground relationship and proved effective in designing complex urban fabric.

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  • Qingyu Gong & Jingzhu Li & Tong Liu & Na Wang, 2020. "Generating urban fabric in the orthogonal or non-orthogonal urban landscape," Environment and Planning B, , vol. 47(1), pages 25-44, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirb:v:47:y:2020:i:1:p:25-44
    DOI: 10.1177/2399808318761667
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