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For its purposes, this book uses different types of urban layout maps of 2-mile square downtown areas of more than 100 administrative and commercial capitals of many developed and developing states and countries in the world. The next few sections of this chapter discuss how these cities were selected, why the size of the study area from each downtown was determined to be 2-mile square, why some urban layout maps were selected for studies in place of others, how the urban layout maps were prepared, and what geometric properties were measured on the maps.

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Rashid, M. (2017). Materials and Measures. In: The Geometry of Urban Layouts. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30750-3_4

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