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San Francisco's Urban Form

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Urban Studies has periodically been concerned with establishing dominant models for urban form, among them: “The Concentric Ring”, the “Multiple-Nuclei” the “Hole in the Donut” and more recently the “Great Inversion”.   This project hopes to contribute to this tradition by bringing modern mapping and image processing techniques to the understanding of models of urban form. Does the pattern of streets and residents conform to a or a few discrete models? As cities develop does their form converge on some higher order model? 

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The patchwork metropolis: The morphology of the divided postindustrial city