Spacematrix: Space, Density and Urban Form - revised edition
Authors
Meta Berghauser Pont
Chalmers University of Technology, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Department of Urban Design | Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Department of Urbanism
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4000-9064
Keywords:
Urban density, urban morphology, building and urban typology, sustainable urban development, density measures
Synopsis
Spacematrix explores the potential of urban density as a tool for urban planning and design.
This revised and extended edition of Meta Berghauser Pont and Per Haupt’s 2010 volume includes an extensive analysis of the relations between density, urban form and performance – a prerequisite for understanding and successfully predicting the effects of specific designs and planning proposals. The density database that is an integral part of the book has been expanded and now includes 142 examples from five capitals in Europe as well as examples from Asia.
Berghauser Pont and Haupt demystify the use of concepts such as ‘urbanity’, ‘compact city’ and ‘park city’ by challenging the reliability of such concepts and critically examining the possibility of redefining them through quantification using multiple density measures.
Spacematrix is of interest to professionals working in the field of urbanism, such as architects, urban planners and designers, as well as developers, economists, engineers and policymakers. It also offers researchers a method to quantitatively describe urban form and connect this to a wide range of performances.
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Author Biographies
Meta Berghauser Pont, Chalmers University of Technology, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Department of Urban Design | Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Department of Urbanism
Meta Berghauser Pont is an expert in urban morphology and urban density. She leads, together with professor Lars Marcus, the research group SMoG, with a focus on quantitatively analyses and evaluations of form and character of the built environment. The aim is to better understand the processes it that urban form allows or affords and, based on that, to provide knowledge on how the built environment, through design, can affect these processes.
Per Haupt, Municipality of Norrköping, Sweden
Per Haupt is urban planner and strategist at the municipality of Norrköping, Sweden. He was until 2019 professor in Urban Design at the Department of Spatial Planning at BTH (Blekinge Institute of Technology) in Karlskrona, Sweden. He is an expert in urban morphology and urban density and applies, in his work for the municipality, an evidence-based design approach.
Copyright (c) 2023 Meta Berghauser Pont , Per Haupt
