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AUTHOR
Gaëtan Montero
Street networks’ intersections and built-up footprint: emergence of universal properties to delineate cities. The case of Brussels
International audience
On urban boundaries: three methods, three solutions for Brussels
International audience; Delineating urban boundaries is a challenging and important topic for researchers and planners: empirical analyses highly depend on the delineation of the study area and the limits of the cities are of particular interest as they change over time and space. Urban governance can’t be conducted in an efficient way if urban boundaries are not clearly defined.Many scientific methods exist to delineate urban borders. They are mainly based on functional and/or morphological criteria. We here limit ourselves to morphological analyses using the footprint of the builtup as sole input. The first two methods deal with “complex theory” and use respectively the Morpholim methodol…