Comparison of urban fragmentation in European cities: spatial analysis based on open geodata

Abstract: Traffic routes serve to interconnect different locations. At the same time they bisect a spatial area into two “sides” of the route. The paper orientates on the fragmentation effect: Inside urban areas, main traffic routes can segment urban space, whereby physical barriers arise depending on their type (road or rail traffic), width and height (elevated, surface or underground) as well as traffic volume. Functioning as barriers, main traffic routes impair the quality of life in adjacent areas. The focus of this study is not on emissions and pollution but on barrier effects leading to “community severance”. Methodological the principal transferability of the structural analysis of landscape fragmentation to urban space will be shown. The European Urban Atlas of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service provides a starting point by providing geodata on land use for almost 700 city-regions (2012). For the purpose of spatial analysis, a polygon geometry of “urban area” is defined and const

Object Details

• Alternative title: Vergleich der urbanen Zerschneidung in europäischen Städten: räumliche Analyse basierend auf offenen Geodaten
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet ; In: Europa Regional ; 26.2018 (2019) 1 ; 32-48

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Landschaftsgestaltung, Raumplanung

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (when): 2019
• Creator: Schumacher, Ulrich ; Deilmann, Clemens

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-63917-1
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 03.03.2025, 7:55 AM CET