Spatial Signatures - Dani Arribas-Bel & Martin Fleischmann
Channel: Daniel Arribas-Bel
Date: 2021-04-10

"Spatial Signatures - Understanding (urban) spaces through form and function"

Talk given by Dani Arribas-Bel at the Urban Big Data Centre, Glasgow University. March 16th.

The talk introduces the notion of “spatial signatures”, a characterisation of space based on form and function designed to understand urban environments. How the building blocks that make up cities are spatially arranged influences social, economic and environmental outcomes. Despite being of interest to a wide variety of scholars, we have little quantitative intelligence that is applicable at scale and timely, in part because definition and measurement are challenging. Spatial signatures provide a conceptual framework that is theory-informed, data-driven and generalisable. After a motivation, we cover the main ideas that make up spatial signatures in the abstract, and will illustrate those with an application to a few cities around the world.

The slides used for the talk are available at:

https://urbangrammarai.github.io/talks/202103_ubdc

The research presented in this talk is part of the Urban Grammar project at the Alan Turing Institute. More information available at:

https://urbangrammarai.github.io/