‘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
28. Barcelona + extract (Robert Hughes)
‘The major transformation of the city of Barcelona occurred in the mid 19th century. In response to a competition for a new town plan held by the Ajuntament of Barcelona, the Catalan engineer Ildefonso Cerdà drew up a plan for a grid layout of squares that enclosed the Old City.’
27. Athens + extract (Ernst Gombrich)
“Of the Greek city-states, Athens in Attica became by far the most important in the history of art… It was also at this time when Athenian democracy had reached its height… The temples in the sacred rock of Athens, the Acropolis, had been burned down and were to be…”
26. Moscow + extract (Christopher Hibbert)
“Moscow was a city surrounded by the waters of six rivers. It had begun its existence as a settlement at the foot of a hill, the Borovitsky Hill, on the north bank of the Moskva River. Here, a fort had been built in the twelfth century and, thereafter, the place grew and prospered…’’
‘Global City Typologies: Transactional Forces in Urbanised Development’
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