{"id":154,"date":"2013-03-13T15:01:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T15:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siup.ac.ug\/?p=154"},"modified":"2014-07-24T03:59:52","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T03:59:52","slug":"fractal-theory-of-urban-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.siup.ac.ug\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"Fractal Theory of Urban Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Interested in fractal theory, instruction, research and developing alternative ideas in urban planning theory and methodology &#8211; you are welcome to contact the principal.<\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Plan<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Concepts in urban geography and fractal theory<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Heterogeneity of spatial distributions<\/li>\n<li>The centre-periphery pattern and self-similarity<\/li>\n<li>Spatial gradients : fractal and non fractal scaling exponents<\/li>\n<li>Scaling and geographical scales<\/li>\n<li>Fractal aspects of urban growth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Some applications of fractals to urban questions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Description of urban morphologies<\/li>\n<li>Simulation of urban spatial dynamics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>An empirical example : a fractal analysis of the urban pattern of Basle<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Method of analysis<\/li>\n<li>Correlation analysis<\/li>\n<li>Step by step dilation and extraction of information about each dilated image<\/li>\n<li>Evolution of the border of the urban area<\/li>\n<li>Correlation analysis applied to the border<\/li>\n<li>Evolution of the length of the urban border through the dilations<\/li>\n<li>Evolution of the built-up structure of the urban area<\/li>\n<li>Correlation analysis of the built-up surface of the area<\/li>\n<li>Evolution of the number of clusters of built-up pixels through the dilations<\/li>\n<li>Concluding remarks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Discussion : what are fractals useful for ?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cybergeo.revues.org\/3275\">Fractal Theory of Urban Growth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interested in fractal theory, instruction, research and developing alternative ideas in urban planning theory and methodology &#8211; you are welcome to contact the principal. Plan Concepts in urban geography and fractal theory Heterogeneity of spatial distributions The centre-periphery pattern and self-similarity Spatial gradients : fractal and non fractal scaling exponents Scaling and geographical scales Fractal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.siup.ac.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.siup.ac.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.siup.ac.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.siup.ac.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.siup.ac.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.siup.ac.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"http:\/\/www.siup.ac.ug\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.siup.ac.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.siup.ac.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.siup.ac.ug\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}