Detecting Ordinaries, Extremes, Similarities, and Differences: Univariate Descriptions of Urban Layouts

Abstract

This first analytic chapter of the book describes the ordinaries, extremes, similarities, and differences in the geometry of urban layouts of the downtown areas of all the cities in the study sample, and of the cities in developed and developing countries separately. For its purpose, it uses univariate statistics of the data on the geometric measures of the street and street centerline maps, the urban block maps, and the axial and segment maps identified in the previous chapter.