Ombretta Romice
Biographic Data
| ID | 6010334 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ombretta Romice |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ombretta |
| FAMILY NAME | Romice |
| SIGNATURE | ROMICE O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Strathclyde |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5776-5632 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Towards a new neighbourhood-scale climate risk-adaptation approach
A new multimodal analytical approach is proposed to assess, act upon and predict climate risks that materialise differently across neighbourhood contexts. Current methods for assessing neighbourhood responses to climate risks tend to be dominated by either city-level adaptive capacity frameworks or building-level adaptation strategies. These approaches often overlook the empirically grounded and integrative potential of the neighbourhood scale. N…
Urban form and socioeconomic deprivation in Isfahan: An Urban MorphoMetric approach
Studies on urban deprivation date back to the 19 th Century but remain important today due to rising levels of inequality and social segregation. However, while social causes of deprivation have been investigated, the role of the built environment remains neglected. Existing studies either provide broad coverage at the expense of detailed morphological descriptions or offer meticulous accounts of small-scale areas without capturing the broader co…
EO + Morphometrics: Understanding cities through urban morphology at large scale
Earth Observation (EO)-based mapping of cities has great potential to detect patterns beyond the physical ones. However, EO combined with the surge of machine learning techniques to map non-physical, such as socioeconomic, aspects directly, goes to the expense of reproducibility and interpretability, hence scientific validity. In this paper, we suggest shifting the focus from the direct detection of socioeconomic status from raw images through im…
Methodological foundation of a numerical taxonomy of urban form
Cities are complex products of human culture, characterised by a startling diversity of visible traits. Their form is constantly evolving, reflecting changing human needs and local contingencies, manifested in space by many urban patterns. Urban morphology laid the foundation for understanding many such patterns, largely relying on qualitative research methods to extract distinct spatial identities of urban areas. However, the manual, labour-inte…
Urban Morphometrics and the Intangible Uniqueness of Tangible Heritage. An Evidence-Based Generative Design Experiment in Historical Kochi (In)
Asia is urbanising rapidly. Current urbanisation practices often compromise sustainability, prosperity, and local quality of life while context-sensitive alternatives show very limited impact. A third way is necessary to integrate mass-production, heritage, and human values. As part of UNICITI’s initiative, A Third Way of Building Asian Cities, we propose a scalable and replicable methodology which captures unique morphological traits of urban ty…
Measuring urban form: Overcoming terminological inconsistencies for a quantitative and comprehensive morphologic analysis of cities
Unprecedented urbanisation processes characterise the Great Acceleration, urging urban researchers to make sense of data analysis in support of evidence-based and large-scale decision-making. Urban morphologists are no exception since the impact of urban form on fundamental natural and social patterns (equity, prosperity and resource consumption’s efficiency) is now fully acknowledged. However, urban morphology is still far from offering a compre…
Morphological tessellation as a way of partitioning space: Improving consistency in urban morphology at the plot scale
On the origin of spaces: Morphometric foundations of urban form evolution
The modern discipline of urban morphology gives us a ground for the comparative analysis of cities, which increasingly includes specific quantitative elements. In this paper, we make a further step forward towards the definition of a general method for the classification of urban form. We draw from morphometrics and taxonomy in life sciences to propose such method, which we name ‘urban morphometrics’. We then test it on a unit of the urban landsc…
Form and urban change – An urban morphometric study of five gentrified neighbourhoods in London
Research in Urban Morphology has long been exploring the form of cities and their changes over time, especially by establishing links with the parallel dynamics of these cities’ social, economic and political environments. The capacity of an adaptable and resilient urban form to provide a fertile environment for economic prosperity and social cohesion is at the forefront of discussion. Gentrification has emerged in the past few decades as an impo…
Urban regeneration, masterplans and resilience: The case of Gorbals, Glasgow
Over the last 200 years, particularly since the Second World War, comprehensive spatial masterplans, aimed at increasing the efficiency, amenity and value of degraded urban neighbourhoods, have been developed widely in the UK. However, contrary to the assumption of their creators that stable long-term outcomes could be planned and achieved, resulting environments often failed to demonstrate the resilience necessary to deal with the multi-scale ch…
Alterations in scale: Patterns of change in main street networks across time and space
This paper presents a morphological study of 100 main street networks from urban areas around the world. An expansion in the scale of main street networks was revealed using a unique heuristic visual method for identifying and measuring the lengths of main street segments from each of the study areas. Case studies were selected and grouped according to corresponding urban design paradigms, ranging from antiquity to present day. This research show…
New developments in and reflections on, the use of visual literacy and environmental evaluation for the participation of community groups in design
Alterations in scale: Patterns of change in main street networks across time and space
This paper presents a morphological study of 100 main street networks from urban areas around the world. An expansion in the scale of main street networks was revealed using a unique heuristic visual method for identifying and measuring the lengths of main street segments from each of the study areas. Case studies were selected and grouped according to corresponding urban design paradigms, ranging from antiquity to present day. This research show…
Urban regeneration, masterplans and resilience: The case of Gorbals, Glasgow
Over the last 200 years, particularly since the Second World War, comprehensive spatial masterplans, aimed at increasing the efficiency, amenity and value of degraded urban neighbourhoods, have been developed widely in the UK. However, contrary to the assumption of their creators that stable long-term outcomes could be planned and achieved, resulting environments often failed to demonstrate the resilience necessary to deal with the multi-scale ch…
New developments in and reflections on, the use of visual literacy and environmental evaluation for the participation of community groups in design
Alterations in scale: Patterns of change in main street networks across time and space
This paper presents a morphological study of 100 main street networks from urban areas around the world. An expansion in the scale of main street networks was revealed using a unique heuristic visual method for identifying and measuring the lengths of main street segments from each of the study areas. Case studies were selected and grouped according to corresponding urban design paradigms, ranging from antiquity to present day. This research show…
Urban regeneration, masterplans and resilience: The case of Gorbals, Glasgow
Over the last 200 years, particularly since the Second World War, comprehensive spatial masterplans, aimed at increasing the efficiency, amenity and value of degraded urban neighbourhoods, have been developed widely in the UK. However, contrary to the assumption of their creators that stable long-term outcomes could be planned and achieved, resulting environments often failed to demonstrate the resilience necessary to deal with the multi-scale ch…
Form and urban change – An urban morphometric study of five gentrified neighbourhoods in London
Research in Urban Morphology has long been exploring the form of cities and their changes over time, especially by establishing links with the parallel dynamics of these cities’ social, economic and political environments. The capacity of an adaptable and resilient urban form to provide a fertile environment for economic prosperity and social cohesion is at the forefront of discussion. Gentrification has emerged in the past few decades as an impo…
On the origin of spaces: Morphometric foundations of urban form evolution
The modern discipline of urban morphology gives us a ground for the comparative analysis of cities, which increasingly includes specific quantitative elements. In this paper, we make a further step forward towards the definition of a general method for the classification of urban form. We draw from morphometrics and taxonomy in life sciences to propose such method, which we name ‘urban morphometrics’. We then test it on a unit of the urban landsc…
Morphological tessellation as a way of partitioning space: Improving consistency in urban morphology at the plot scale
Urban Morphometrics and the Intangible Uniqueness of Tangible Heritage. An Evidence-Based Generative Design Experiment in Historical Kochi (In)
Asia is urbanising rapidly. Current urbanisation practices often compromise sustainability, prosperity, and local quality of life while context-sensitive alternatives show very limited impact. A third way is necessary to integrate mass-production, heritage, and human values. As part of UNICITI’s initiative, A Third Way of Building Asian Cities, we propose a scalable and replicable methodology which captures unique morphological traits of urban ty…
Measuring urban form: Overcoming terminological inconsistencies for a quantitative and comprehensive morphologic analysis of cities
Unprecedented urbanisation processes characterise the Great Acceleration, urging urban researchers to make sense of data analysis in support of evidence-based and large-scale decision-making. Urban morphologists are no exception since the impact of urban form on fundamental natural and social patterns (equity, prosperity and resource consumption’s efficiency) is now fully acknowledged. However, urban morphology is still far from offering a compre…
Methodological foundation of a numerical taxonomy of urban form
Cities are complex products of human culture, characterised by a startling diversity of visible traits. Their form is constantly evolving, reflecting changing human needs and local contingencies, manifested in space by many urban patterns. Urban morphology laid the foundation for understanding many such patterns, largely relying on qualitative research methods to extract distinct spatial identities of urban areas. However, the manual, labour-inte…
EO + Morphometrics: Understanding cities through urban morphology at large scale
Earth Observation (EO)-based mapping of cities has great potential to detect patterns beyond the physical ones. However, EO combined with the surge of machine learning techniques to map non-physical, such as socioeconomic, aspects directly, goes to the expense of reproducibility and interpretability, hence scientific validity. In this paper, we suggest shifting the focus from the direct detection of socioeconomic status from raw images through im…
Urban form and socioeconomic deprivation in Isfahan: An Urban MorphoMetric approach
Studies on urban deprivation date back to the 19 th Century but remain important today due to rising levels of inequality and social segregation. However, while social causes of deprivation have been investigated, the role of the built environment remains neglected. Existing studies either provide broad coverage at the expense of detailed morphological descriptions or offer meticulous accounts of small-scale areas without capturing the broader co…
Towards a new neighbourhood-scale climate risk-adaptation approach
A new multimodal analytical approach is proposed to assess, act upon and predict climate risks that materialise differently across neighbourhood contexts. Current methods for assessing neighbourhood responses to climate risks tend to be dominated by either city-level adaptive capacity frameworks or building-level adaptation strategies. These approaches often overlook the empirically grounded and integrative potential of the neighbourhood scale. N…
Geography (10 works) · Land Use and Ecosystem Services (10 works) · Urban planning (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Engineering (8 works) · Urban Design and Spatial Analysis (8 works) · Civil engineering (7 works) · Urban Morphology (7 works) · Cartography (6 works) · Ecology (6 works)