Making Cities Work
Place Profile is an auditing, diagnostic, benchmarking and briefing tool that measures cities using empirical evidence.
It provides a process for consistently measuring urban patterns, forms and functions that generate rich data sets. This data allows for:
URBAN PATTERN
We have identified nine urban parameters to describe urban space that are divided into three categories:
Definition of public and private land expressed as a ratio of the area
The extent to which private space is accessible to the public
Aspects of the urban pattern relating to the way in which land is subdivided
URBAN FORM
The extent an individual building fills out the area of the plot of land on which it is built
A measure of the floor area of buildings within a given area of the city
The measurement of building height in metres and/or by number of floors
URBAN FUNCTION
Percentage of ground floor uses
Spatial / Infrastructure connectivity of a given area
Measurement of intensity of use of public space over time
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