A Study of Urban form Mutations through Geomatics -Case Study

Understanding and managing the growth of the urban environment is critical for addressing the issue of sustainability, which is becoming increasingly important in all disciplines. The current study focuses on a Tellian city (in the north-east of Algeria) with an agricultural vocation and is intended to be exhaustive because it incorporates both spatial remote sensing tools and geographer-developed macroform indicators. It is divided into three sections, the first of which is a survey of the literature on remote sensing and studies of urban forms using macroform indices. The second section summarizes the case study and describes the techniques used for this goal. In the third section of this research, we present and discuss the outcomes of applying macroform indices to the case of Oued Zenati city using remote sensing photos. More specifically, we examine the various values of the indices adopted and attributed to each primary figure of the city of Oued Zenati during the three periods. The results indicate that the urban form of Oued Zenati town is positioned in the field of less compact sinuous linear forms

Cartography · Geography · Geomatics · Architecture and Cultural Influences · Urban Design and Spatial Analysis

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