Hannes Taubenböck
Biographic Data
| ID | 4418461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hannes Taubenböck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hannes |
| FAMILY NAME | Taubenböck |
| SIGNATURE | TAUBENBÖCK H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Würzburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4360-9126 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Modeling three-dimensional built-up volume dynamics and projections using long-term satellite observations
The influence of urban structure types on the x-minuteness of cities: An accessibility analysis of 15 German cities
The concept of the 15-minute city has gained a lot of popularity in recent years. Numerous studies have looked at a wide variety of cities, providing insights into the extent to which the 15-min-city has been achieved, or the specific x-minuteness that has been achieved so far. In a context of competition between cities in terms of quality of life and sustainability, statements about their performance in terms of x-minuteness dominate. However, t…
Are urban form and function related to urban discourse? Insights from remote sensing and social media data for 15 major cities across the globe
Urban form and function are closely related to people's everyday lives. Understanding this relationship is essential for urban land-use planning. However, the variation of this relationship across cities has not yet been examined comprehensively at a global scale. This study investigates how urban form and function are associated with urban discourse across 15 major cities worldwide. We applied topic modeling to identify topics discussed in these…
Co-occurrence network analysis of urban acoustic environments: Structural archetypes and perceived quality
The character of an urban acoustic environment does not arise from individual sounds in isolation, but from their complex interactions. Current source-focused approaches reduce acoustic environments to inventories of sounds, overlooking the relational patterns that shape them. Here, we introduce a graph-theoretical framework that shifts the focus from ‘what is present’ to ‘how it connects’, quantifying the co-occurrence structure of urban soundsc…
Modelling spatio-temporal distribution of urban population - A high-resolution model for German cities
Information about the spatial distribution of urban populations is highly relevant for areas such as urban planning, infrastructure services, and hazard prevention. Conventionally, census-based population maps provide a static image of population numbers. However, the distribution of urban populations is highly dynamic and changes throughout the course of a day, which can result in significant discrepancies from static maps. We therefore develope…
Distributions of types of urban fabrics around the world: Beyond narratives of global regularities and local specificities
The digital urban frontier: Disparities in social media activity between consolidated and newly urbanized areas in Africa
Newer parts of African cities exhibit lower density of geotweets. • Digital disparity is linked to settlement structure and intensity of plannedness. • Digital urban frontier often lags behind the physical urban frontier. • Urban expansion analysis using data from social media and remote sensing
Is Germany experiencing urban or suburban growth? Contrasting long-standing and novel urban gradient classifications
Was global urbanization from 1985 to 2015 efficient in terms of land consumption
Dense cohabitation is associated with higher ecological sustainability and economic benefits than their less dense counterparts. Of course, there are also many challenges associated with high density, but from the perspective of land consumption, the global trend of urbanization is viewed positively. Urbanity and density, however, are and continue to develop very heterogeneously within and between cities. In this study, we analyze morphologic and…
Unveiling the spatio-temporal patterns of vegetation growth influenced by diverse urban intensity gradients
Identification of the potential for roof greening using remote sensing and deep learning
Under the mounting pressure from global warming, green roofs emerge as a valuable source for climate adaptation, particularly in compact metropolises where green space is limited. Consequently, there is a need to quantitatively evaluate the potential for roof greening where it is most needed and suitable. Despite the increasing importance of this issue, there have been limited studies on the effectiveness of remote sensing and deep learning in id…
How does pedestrian permeability vary in and across cities? A fine-grained assessment for all large cities in Germany
Pedestrian permeability is a key aspect of the accessibility of urban environments. In particular, high permeability increases the walkability of cities, which is advocated by sustainable urban design practices. Previous research on pedestrian permeability has predominantly focused only on single and very specific, characteristic, and homogenous urban morphologies but investigations at a broader scale have not been conducted up to now. In this pa…
Liveability in large housing estates in Germany – Identifying differences based on a novel concept for a walkable city
In times of rapid urban expansion, urgent demand for housing and simultaneously efforts to minimise the use of urban land are competing objectives. The concept of large housing estates (LHE) has therefore regained interest. This resurgence raises questions about the living conditions within these historically stigmatised complexes. While liveability studies often rely on surveys, we present a globally applicable quantitative approach to assess li…
Searching for the DNA of urbanisation. A material perspective
Broadly accepted categorical differentiations of urbanisation understand cities as well-defined objects containing urban spaces in contrast to their hinterlands. However, urbanisation's multidimensional complexity challenges these approaches in the context of increasing social issues marked by rapid urban expansion, uneven development, ways of life, inequality, commodification, etc., that require fresh scientific answers grounded in innovative em…
Global differences in urbanization dynamics from 1985 to 2015 and outlook considering IPCC climate scenarios
Cities are expanding all over the world. In this study we aim to understand how the pace and scale of urban growth dynamics vary across geographies. This study contributes to the literature in four key ways: First, the study is comprehensive including all 1567 cities worldwide that had >300,000 inhabitants in 2015. Second, comparison of settlement dynamics of cities is performed in relation to continents, to geographic regions, to national levels…
Commentary: A road map for future data-driven urban planning and environmental health research
Recent advances in data science and urban environmental health research utilise large-scale databases (100s-1000s of cities) to explore the complex interplay of urban characteristics such as city form and size, climate, mobility, exposure, and environmental health impacts. Cities are still hotspots of air pollution and noise, suffer urban heat island effects and lack of green space, which leads to disease and mortality burdens preventable with be…
The unseen population: Do we underestimate slum dwellers in cities of the Global South
The Sustainable development goals (SDG) aim for reducing poverty (SDG 1) and to upgrade all slums (SDG 11). The first indicator in SDG 11 describes the proportion of the urban population residing in slums. However, the currently available data is based on national estimates that follow globally varying methodologies and concepts. In this paper, a uniform approach is implemented to obtain slum population estimates in eight different cities from th…
Spatially-optimized urban greening for reduction of population exposure to land surface temperature extremes
The population experiencing high temperatures in cities is rising due to anthropogenic climate change, settlement expansion, and population growth. Yet, efficient tools to evaluate potential intervention strategies to reduce population exposure to Land Surface Temperature (LST) extremes are still lacking. Here, we implement a spatial regression model based on remote sensing data that is able to assess the population exposure to LST extremes in ur…
The Unseen—An Investigative Analysis of Thematic and Spatial Coverage of News on the Ongoing Refugee Crisis in West Africa
The fastest growing regional crisis is happening in West Africa today, with over 8 million people considered persons of concern. A culmination of identity politics, climate-driven disasters, and extreme poverty has led to this humanitarian crisis in the region and is exacerbated by a lack of political will and misplaced media attention. The current state of the art does not present sufficient investigations of the thematic and spatial coverage of…
In the tension between large-scale analysis and accuracy - Identifying and analysing intra-urban (sub-)centre structures comparing official 3D-building models and TanDEM-X nDSMs
Quantitative assessment and comparison of urban patterns in Germany and the United States
The Individual Walkable Neighborhood - Evaluating people-centered spatial units focusing on urban density
Urban planners are concerned to design the city in a way that supports quality of life. To catch how the settings of elements in space influence our subjective perception is difficult to evaluate, especially since objective measures are normally calculated at arbitrary scales. To better focus on the actual surrounding of individuals, people-centered reference areas are needed. The current study presents a comparison of three different people-cent…
Planned, unplanned, or in-between? A concept of the intensity of plannedness and its empirical relation to the built urban landscape across the globe
The physical appearance of the built urban landscape is the result of multiple, intertwined processes. The relationship between the existing morphology and the diversity of planning processes, however, has been little studied empirically at a global scale. In this study, we develop an ontology of planning intensity: conceptualizing intemediate categories of whether an urban structure is planned single-handedly or constantly updated by myriads of …
Border regions across the globe: Analyzing border typologies, economic and political disparities, and development dynamics
The cosmopolitan dream of a borderless world has little to do with reality. Today's borders bear witness to regulatory intervention in the circulation of goods, information, capital and people. These interventions, naturally, have an impact at border regions. For analyzing these impacts, we map, quantify and relate border typologies, development dynamics near borders, and economic and political indicators of neighboring nation-states. We do so on…
Learning income levels and inequality from spatial and sociodemographic data in Germany
This study explores the potential of predicting income inequality and income levels from attributes of the built, natural and social environment in Germany. Furthermore, it investigates differences in explanatory variables and estimation accuracy for municipalities with different social and spatial structure profiles. We use income tax data, the 2011 national census, and spatial data from various sources. The explanatory variables capture the spa…
Seven city types representing morphologic configurations of cities across the globe
What we understand by the simple term ‘city’ is in fact describing highly diverse domains: different economies, demographics, ways of living, land uses, built-up morphologies, among other things. The built landscape alone ranges from low-density, one-storey suburban settlements to high-density accumulations of skyscrapers. Models have repeatedly attempted to describe these various ‘city’ manifestations and to understand the processes that shape t…
The physical face of slums: A structural comparison of slums in Mumbai, India, based on remotely sensed data
The similar size of slums
More than half of the world's population currently resides in urban areas. In the majority of developing countries slums are a defining part of the urban scape. Their supply with energy, basic infrastructure, among others is one of the main challenges of modern civilizations. To provide an optimal supply, the spatial patterns of slums in cities have to be explored. While most of current literature is focused on inter-urban dynamics, this paper is…
Land consumption in cities: A comparative study across the globe
Land consumption delineates how effectively we use our living space - whether wastefully in area or efficiently. As the United Nations (UN) projects 5.1 billion population will live in urban areas in 2030, it is crucial to measure, compare, and understand land consumption for our cities across the globe. Currently global approaches for land consumption analysis rely on settlement layers produced by remote sensing data and population data achieved…
Measuring urban agglomeration using a city-scale dasymetric population map: A study in the Pearl River Delta, China
The rates of urbanization and increase in urban sprawl that have occurred in China over the past thirty years have been unprecedented. This article presents a new city-scale dasymetric modelling approach that incorporates historical census data for 28 cities in the Pearl River Delta area of southern China. It combines Landsat imagery (from 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2015) with a ‘limiting variable’ estimation algorithm to generate a gridded estimate o…
The dynamics of poor urban areas - analyzing morphologic transformations across the globe using Earth observation data
The urban environment is in constant motion, mostly through construction but also through destruction of urban elements. While formal development is a process with long planning periods and thus the built landscape appears static, informal or spontaneous settlements seem to be subject to high dynamics in their ever unfinished urban form. However, the dynamics and morphological characteristics of physical transformation in such settlements of urba…
Unveiling the spatio-temporal patterns of vegetation growth influenced by diverse urban intensity gradients
The unseen population: Do we underestimate slum dwellers in cities of the Global South
The Sustainable development goals (SDG) aim for reducing poverty (SDG 1) and to upgrade all slums (SDG 11). The first indicator in SDG 11 describes the proportion of the urban population residing in slums. However, the currently available data is based on national estimates that follow globally varying methodologies and concepts. In this paper, a uniform approach is implemented to obtain slum population estimates in eight different cities from th…
Measuring the spatial hierarchical urban system in China in reference to the Central Place Theory
Searching for the DNA of urbanisation. A material perspective
Broadly accepted categorical differentiations of urbanisation understand cities as well-defined objects containing urban spaces in contrast to their hinterlands. However, urbanisation's multidimensional complexity challenges these approaches in the context of increasing social issues marked by rapid urban expansion, uneven development, ways of life, inequality, commodification, etc., that require fresh scientific answers grounded in innovative em…
Global differences in urbanization dynamics from 1985 to 2015 and outlook considering IPCC climate scenarios
Cities are expanding all over the world. In this study we aim to understand how the pace and scale of urban growth dynamics vary across geographies. This study contributes to the literature in four key ways: First, the study is comprehensive including all 1567 cities worldwide that had >300,000 inhabitants in 2015. Second, comparison of settlement dynamics of cities is performed in relation to continents, to geographic regions, to national levels…
Dynamics of intra-urban employment geographies: A comparative study of U.S. and German metropolitan areas
In this paper we analyze changes in the intra-urban spatial distribution of employment across six U.S. and German city regions between 2002 and 2015. Our methodological approach allows for a systematic and spatially consistent comparison of urban spatial structures across the two different countries. The empirical results show major national, regional, and sectoral differences in the spatial distribution of employment. In the German case studies …
Urban change in Goa, India
Urban transformation in the National Capital Territory of Delhi, India: The emergence and growth of slums
Urbanization in India – Spatiotemporal analysis using remote sensing data
Monitoring urbanization in mega cities from space
From Suburbanization to Counterurbanization: Investigating Urban Dynamics in the National Capital Region Delhi, India
Despite the long tradition of planning to manage urban growth in the National Capital Region (NCR) Delhi, the region is often criticized by the scholars for facing severe urban problems caused not only by an increasing population but also by a lack of infrastructure provision coupled with outward spatial expansion. Identification of urban development stages provides policy makers with a tool to devise reforms in order to effectively and efficient…
The physical face of slums: A structural comparison of slums in Mumbai, India, based on remotely sensed data
Urban transformation in the National Capital Territory of Delhi, India: The emergence and growth of slums
Measuring morphological polycentricity - A comparative analysis of urban mass concentrations using remote sensing data
Measuring urban agglomeration using a city-scale dasymetric population map: A study in the Pearl River Delta, China
The rates of urbanization and increase in urban sprawl that have occurred in China over the past thirty years have been unprecedented. This article presents a new city-scale dasymetric modelling approach that incorporates historical census data for 28 cities in the Pearl River Delta area of southern China. It combines Landsat imagery (from 2000, 2005, 2010, and 2015) with a ‘limiting variable’ estimation algorithm to generate a gridded estimate o…
Urban change in Goa, India
Building instance classification using street view images
Land-use classification based on spaceborne or aerial remote sensing images has been extensively studied over the past decades. Such classification is usually a patch-wise or pixel-wise labeling over the whole image. But for many applications, such as urban population density mapping or urban utility planning, a classification map based on individual buildings is much more informative. However, such semantic classification still poses some fundam…
The similar size of slums
More than half of the world's population currently resides in urban areas. In the majority of developing countries slums are a defining part of the urban scape. Their supply with energy, basic infrastructure, among others is one of the main challenges of modern civilizations. To provide an optimal supply, the spatial patterns of slums in cities have to be explored. While most of current literature is focused on inter-urban dynamics, this paper is…
Understanding an urbanizing planet: Strategic directions for remote sensing
Patterns of Eastern European urbanisation in the mirror of Western trends – Convergent, unique or hybrid
This paper presents a cross-sectional analysis of the urban land use patterns of 230 city regions in 34 European countries and an in-depth longitudinal analysis of 10 selected regions. The guiding question is whether the post-socialist transformation of urban spatial structure in Eastern European regions can be interpreted as an adaption process to Western-style urbanisation and how far a process of ‘mimicry’ has reached. Our empirical approach i…
Analyzing Links between Spatio-Temporal Metrics of Built-Up Areas and Socio-Economic Indicators on a Semi-Global Scale
Manifold socio-economic processes shape the built and natural elements in urban areas. They thus influence both the living environment of urban dwellers and sustainability in many dimensions. Monitoring the development of the urban fabric and its relationships with socio-economic and environmental processes will help to elucidate their linkages and, thus, aid in the development of new strategies for more sustainable development. In this study, we…
Urbanization that hides in the dark – Spotting China’s “ghost neighborhoods” from space
The dynamics of poor urban areas - analyzing morphologic transformations across the globe using Earth observation data
The urban environment is in constant motion, mostly through construction but also through destruction of urban elements. While formal development is a process with long planning periods and thus the built landscape appears static, informal or spontaneous settlements seem to be subject to high dynamics in their ever unfinished urban form. However, the dynamics and morphological characteristics of physical transformation in such settlements of urba…
Seven city types representing morphologic configurations of cities across the globe
What we understand by the simple term ‘city’ is in fact describing highly diverse domains: different economies, demographics, ways of living, land uses, built-up morphologies, among other things. The built landscape alone ranges from low-density, one-storey suburban settlements to high-density accumulations of skyscrapers. Models have repeatedly attempted to describe these various ‘city’ manifestations and to understand the processes that shape t…
Measuring the spatial hierarchical urban system in China in reference to the Central Place Theory
Deep Learning-Based Generation of Building Stock Data from Remote Sensing for Urban Heat Demand Modeling
Cities are responsible for a large share of the global energy consumption. A third of the total greenhouse gas emissions are related to the buildings sector, making it an important target for reducing urban energy consumption. Detailed data on the building stock, including the thermal characteristics of individual buildings, such as the construction type, construction period, and building geometries, can strongly support decision-making for local…
Estimating quality of life dimensions from urban spatial pattern metrics
The spatial structure of urban areas plays a major role in the daily life of dwellers. The current policy framework to ensure the quality of life of inhabitants leaving no one behind, leads decision-makers to seek better-informed choices for the sustainable planning of urban areas. Thus, a better understanding between the spatial structure of cities and their socio-economic level is of crucial relevance. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is …
Which city is the greenest? A multi-dimensional deconstruction of city rankings
The question “which city is the greenest” sounds trivial, but in reality, this question contains statistical ambiguities. In this study, we approach this issue by ranking cities by green space shares. However, we do not base our ranking only on one green parameter and the commonly used administrative boundaries. Instead, we broaden access to rankings through several approaches: First, we calculate two parameters, i.e. green space shares and green…
Inferring floor area ratio thresholds for the delineation of city centers based on cognitive perception
The morphology of today’s cities is the result of historic urban developments and on-going urban transformation resulting in complex urban spatial structures. While functionally as well as spatially, cities are structured into sub-units such as the city center, business districts, residential areas, or industrial and commercial zones, their precise localization in the geographic space is sometimes difficult. City centers in particular are difficu…
Land consumption in cities: A comparative study across the globe
Land consumption delineates how effectively we use our living space - whether wastefully in area or efficiently. As the United Nations (UN) projects 5.1 billion population will live in urban areas in 2030, it is crucial to measure, compare, and understand land consumption for our cities across the globe. Currently global approaches for land consumption analysis rely on settlement layers produced by remote sensing data and population data achieved…
To be, or not to be ‘urban’? A multi-modal method for the differentiated measurement of the degree of urbanization
Today, 56.6% of the world's population is urban and the trend is rising; in Germany, the urbanization process is almost complete at 80.3%. This is the ubiquitously used narrative. Surprisingly, the figures behind it are rarely questioned. The spatial statistics responsible for this meta-narrative are, however, prone to ambiguity. They suffer from a lack of systematic empirical justification, and from cross-national differences in cut-off values u…
Estimating housing vacancy rates at block level: The example of Guiyang, China
Housing forms of poverty in Europe - A categorization based on literature research and satellite imagery
Housing forms of poverty are often associated with the Global South, especially through the depiction of slums. In this study, we systemize physical housing forms representing poverty in Europe. The continent features a huge diversity of such forms, rooting in different politics, cultures, histories and lifestyles. We discover and categorize these unindexed housing morphologies to enlarge the scientific ontological portfolio for Europe. An extens…
Geography (47 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (34 works) · Economic geography (25 works) · Cartography (22 works) · Regional science (20 works) · Computer Science (17 works) · Population (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Engineering (14 works) · Environmental Science (14 works)