Urban parameters from homogeneous urban pattern areas of Barcelona

Ajuntament de Barcelona | Barcelona | 2009

The object of the study is to make a geographic information system that provides information about blocks and neighborhoods at certain height, speccifically of the characteristics of the city fabric from the point of view of the urban parameters that define them as the buildability, the occupation of the building, the proportion of the different systems, and the density of the housing, among others. 

The methodology used is based on methods and procedures that have served to measure differences in the distribution of socio-residential characteristics of cities in the studies of social sciences, geography, sociology and urban economy. It has been based on the design and structuring of a Geographical Information System (GIS) that allows easy and organized access to information referring to street blocks and the pattern of all scopes of homoogeneous fabric .