‘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
30. Lisbon + extract (Malyn Newitt)
“Lisbon was built by the Romans on a hill on the north bank of the River Tagus overlooking the greatest natural harbour on the coast of Atlantic Europe. For some 500 years a Moorish city with a large Christian (Mozarabe) and Jewish population, after being captured by…”
29. Copenhagen + extract (Steen E. Rasmussen)
‘The district of Frederiksstaden in the old city of Copenhagen was developed south of the fortified castle Kastellet and coastal perimeter adjoining which the recent ‘Little Mermaid’ now stands, with its notable Amalienborg Square and Frederik’s Church.’
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.’
‘Global City Typologies: Transactional Forces in Urbanised Development’
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