‘Urbanistics’ — is the process of addressing the urban dynamics of cities through research and assessment of population densities, and patterns of evolution of both private built form and public infrastructure networks.
Through understanding population growth trends and transactional forces in the built environment, such mapping can be used to target sustainable development policies.
urbanistiX is a modern, dynamic platform that uniquely illustrates the scale and growth of the world’s largest Global Cities through visualisation and mapping of their topography, infrastructure and population patterns in an interactive manner.
This website thereby supports the collection of data from established, planned and emerging Global Cities having different typologies.
Journals
9. Tokyo + extract (Jorge Almazán & StudioLab)
Whilst the original port of Edo was chosen by Tokugawa Ieyasu when Shogun to become capital of Japan, it was only in the late 19th century when the Shogunate was terminated that the city of Tokyo emerged and was to be developed around the mouth of the river with the generally higher ground of the ‘Yamanote’ and the lower ground to the east of the ‘Shitamachi’.
8. Sydney + extract (D.H. Lawrence)
Sited in a magnificent natural setting, the city of Sydney is characterised by its inner harbour and multitude of bays and inlets nestling in the estuary of the Parramatta River around Sydney Cove. Now the capital of the State of New South Wales, it was originally founded as Port Jackson by Arthur Phillip sent out from Britain in 1788.
7. Los Angeles + extract (Reyner Banham, Mike Davis & Kevin Starr)
Manhattan is a slim peninsula on the north-eastern seaboard of America where the Hudson River and East River converge into Lower New York Bay. With its linear topography and rocky geology, it was naturally suited for its overlay of man-made Avenues and Streets on a linear grid across the island.
‘Global City Typologies: Transactional Forces in Urbanised Development’
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