000 02348nam a22002777a 4500
003 ZW-GwMSU
005 20240926135402.0
008 240926b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
022 _a07339488
040 _aMSU
_bEnglish
_cMSU
_erda
050 0 0 _aHT169 JOU
100 1 _aMohajeri, Nahid
_eauthor
245 1 0 _aQuantitative analysis of structural changes during rapid urban growth:
_bCase Study of Kerman, Iran
_ccreated by Nahid Mohajeri, Pooneh Poursistany, Poopak Poursistany and Agust Gudmundsson
264 1 _aReston:
_bASCE,
_c2015
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
_btxt
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediated
_bn
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
_bnc
440 _aJournal of Urban Planning and Development
_vVolume 141, number 3
520 3 _aNew quantitative measures of urban structural changes are introduced and applied to the fast-growing city of Kerman, Iran. The results of 20,802 street measurements show that the main street orientations are orthogonal, both in the old inner part and in the more recent outer parts, but the streets are shorter and more irregular in shape in the inner part. The Shannon/Gibbs entropy is a measure of dispersion and is used to quantify the street-population differences within Kerman. The results show that then inner (old) part has lower orientation and length entropies (and shorter average lengths and length ranges) than any of the outer parts. Also, the length entropy gradually increases with distance from the inner part, indicating spreading of the street network with expansion of the city. The evolution of the Kerman street network from 1902 to 2006 indicates two growth processes: densification (streets added within the existing network) and expansion (streets added at the margin of the network). During densification periods, the network entropy decreased, but it increased during expansion periods. Entropy is thus a powerful tool for quantifying the evolution of city structure and for understanding and planning structural changes, particularly in fast-growing cities.
650 _aQuantitative analysis
_vStructural changes
_xUrban growth
_zKerman, Iran
700 1 _aPoursistany, Pooneh
_eco-author
700 1 _aPoursistany, Poopak
_eco-author
700 1 _aGudmundsson, Agust
_eco-author
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)UP.1943-5444.0000213
942 _2lcc
_cJA
999 _c167361
_d167361