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2024

Venerandi, Alessandro and Mellen, Hal and Romice, Ombretta and Porta, Sergio (2024) Walkability indices - the state of the art and future directions : a systematic review. Sustainability, 16 (16). 6730. ISSN 2071-1050

Venerandi, Alessandro and Feliciotti, Alessandra and Mokhtarzadeh, Safoora and Taefnia, Maryam and Romice, Ombretta and Porta, Sergio (2024) Urban form and socioeconomic deprivation in Isfahan : an Urban MorphoMetric approach. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. pp. 1-17. ISSN 2399-8091

2023

Venerandi, Alessandro and Viese, Vija and Kalyan, Kavya and Bhardwaj, Nitin and Romice, Ombretta and Porta, Sergio; Djokić, Vladan and Djordjević, Aleksandra and Milojević, Milica and Milovanović, Aleksandra and Pešić, Mladen, eds. (2023) Women’s safety and urban form : a perspective from Kochi (India). In: XXX Conference Of The International Seminar On Urban Form (ISUF2023) - Praxis Of Urban Morphology. University of Belgrade - Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade, pp. 54-65. ISBN 9788679243416

Venerandi, Alessandro and Aiello, Luca Maria and Porta, Sergio (2023) Urban form and COVID-19 cases and deaths in Greater London : an urban morphometric approach. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 50 (5). pp. 1228-1243. ISSN 2399-8091

Wang, Jiong and Fleischmann, Martin and Venerandi, Alessandro and Romice, Ombretta and Kuffer, Monika and Porta, Sergio (2023) EO + morphometrics : understanding cities through urban morphology at large scale. Landscape and Urban Planning, 233. 104691. ISSN 0169-2046

2022

Romice, Ombretta and Rudlin, David and AlWaer, Husam and Greaves, Mark and Thwaites, Kevin and Porta, Sergio (2022) Setting urban design as a specialised, evidence-led, coordinated education and profession. Proceedings of the ICE - Urban Design and Planning. ISSN 1755-0793

Venerandi, Alessandro and Feliciotti, Alessandra and Fleischmann, Martin and Kourtit, Karima and Porta, Sergio (2022) Urban form character and Airbnb in Amsterdam (NL) : a morphometric approach. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 50 (2). pp. 386-400. ISSN 2399-8091

Porta, Sergio and Venerandi, Alessandro and Feliciotti, Alessandra and Raman, Shibu and Romice, Ombretta and Wang, Jiong and Kuffer, Monika (2022) Urban morphometrics + earth observation : an integrated approach to rich/extra-large scale taxonomies of urban form. Projections, Journal of the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 16. pp. 132-163.

Fleischmann, Martin and Feliciotti, Alessandra and Romice, Ombretta and Porta, Sergio (2022) Methodological foundation of a numerical taxonomy of urban form. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 49 (4). pp. 1283-1299. ISSN 2399-8091

Venerandi, Alessandro and Zamani, Vahid and Porta, Sergio; (2022) Diachronic investigation of the urban form of Qom (Iran) through morphometric approach. In: Annual Conference Proceedings of the XXVIII International Seminar on Urban Form. University of Strathclyde Publishing, Glasgow, pp. 864-875. ISBN 9781914241161

Wang, Jiong and Fleischmann, Martin and Venerandi, Alessandro and Kuffer, Monika and Porta, Sergio; (2022) Earth observation + morphometrics : towards a systematic understanding of cities in challenging contexts. In: Annual Conference Proceedings of the XXVIII International Seminar on Urban Form. University of Strathclyde Publishing, Glasgow, pp. 363-370. ISBN 9781914241161

Romice, O. and Venerandi, A. and Kalyan, K. and Bhardwaj, N. and Viese, V. and Porta, S. (2022) Encoding Good Urban Form : the Use of Urban MorphoMetrics in the Elaboration of Local Design Codes for Asian Cities. University of Strathclyde Publishing; UNICITI, Glasgow.

2021

Venerandi, Alessandro and Romice, Ombretta and Chepelianskaia, Olga and Kalyan, Kavya and Bhardwaj, Nitin and Viese, Vija and Ugás, Sebastián and Raman, Shibu and Porta, Sergio (2021) Urban morphometrics and the intangible uniqueness of tangible heritage. An evidence-based generative design experiment in historical Kochi (IN). Heritage, 4 (4). pp. 4399-4420. ISSN 2571-9408

Fleischmann, Martin and Romice, Ombretta and Porta, Sergio (2021) Measuring urban form : overcoming terminological inconsistencies for a quantitative and comprehensive morphologic analysis of cities. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 48 (8). pp. 2133-2150. ISSN 2399-8091

2020

Romice, Ombretta and Porta, Sergio and Feliciotti, Alessandra (2020) Masterplanning for Change : Designing the Resilient City. RIBA Publishing, London. ISBN 9781859469262

Fleischmann, Martin and Feliciotti, Alessandra and Romice, Ombretta and Porta, Sergio (2020) Morphological tessellation as a way of partitioning space : improving consistency in urban morphology at the plot scale. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 80. 101441. ISSN 0198-9715

Rofè, Yodan and Porta, Sergio and Ingham, Susan and Andrews, Christopher r. and Ettlinger, Or and Robazza, Paolo and Moore Alexander, Maggie; Sayigh, Ali, ed. (2020) Building beauty : a new program teaching students to help heal the world. In: Green Buildings and Renewable Energy. Springer, Cham, pp. 611-622. ISBN 978-3-030-30840-7

2019

Dibble, Jacob and Prelorendjos, Alexios and Romice, Ombretta and Zanella, Mattia and Strano, Emanuele and Pagel, Mark and Porta, Sergio (2019) On the origin of spaces : morphometric foundations of urban form evolution. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 46 (4). pp. 707-730. ISSN 0265-8135

2018

Feliciotti, Alessandra and Romice, Ombretta and Porta, Sergio (2018) From system ecology to urban morphology : towards a theory of urban form resilience. In: International Forum on Urbanism, 2018-12-10 - 2018-12-12, UIC School of Architecture.

Romice, Ombretta and Feliciotti, Alessandra and Porta, Sergio (2018) Urban form resilience urban design practice : masterplanning for change. In: International Forum on Urbanism, 2018-12-10 - 2018-12-12, UIC School of Architecture.

Danenberg, Rosa and Mehaffy, Michael and Porta, Sergio and Elmlund, Peter (2018) Main street plot scale in urban design for inclusive economies : Stockholm case studies. Proceedings of the ICE - Urban Design and Planning, 171 (4). ISSN 1755-0793

Porta, Sergio and Romice, Ombretta and Feliciotti, Alessandra and Rudlin, David (2018) Big box, short life: little box, long life : the democracy of resilience: plot-based urbanism, evolution and informal participation. Create Streets, London.

2017

Romice, Ombretta and Porta, Sergio and Feliciotti, Alessandra (2017) The road to masterplanning for change and the design of resilient places. Architectural Research in Finland, 1 (1). pp. 11-26.

Venerandi, Alessandro and Zanella, M and Romice, O and Dibble, J and Porta, S (2017) Form and urban change : an urban morphometric study of five gentrified neighbourhoods in London. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 44 (6). pp. 1056-1076. ISSN 0265-8135

Iovene, Maddalena and Fernandéz de Córdova, Graciela and Romice, Ombretta and Porta, Sergio; Colomer, Vicente, ed. (2017) Towards informal planning : mapping the evolution of spontaneous settlements in time. In: 24th ISUF International Conference - City and Territory in the Globalization Age. Universitat Politècnica de València, ESP, pp. 545-557. ISBN 9788490485743

Remali, Adel Mohammad and Porta, Sergio (2017) Correlating street network and urban blocks in the city centre of Tripoli. Urban Morphology, 21 (2). ISSN 1027-4278

Romice, Ombretta and Porta, Sergio and Feliciotti, Alessandra and Barbour, Gordon Cleland; AlWaer, Husam and Illsley, Barbara, eds. (2017) Masterplanning for change : design as a way to create the conditions for time sensitive place-making. In: Placemaking. ICE Publisher, London, pp. 195-207. ISBN 9780727760715

Feliciotti, Alessandra and Romice, Ombretta and Porta, Sergio (2017) Urban regeneration, masterplans and resilience : the case of the Gorbals in Glasgow. Urban Morphology, 21 (1). pp. 61-79. ISSN 1027-4278

2016

Barbour, Gordon Cleland and Romice, Ombretta and Porta, Sergio (2016) Sustainable plot-based urban regeneration and traditional masterplanning practice in Glasgow. Open House International, 41 (4). pp. 15-22. ISSN 0168-2601

Feliciotti, Alessandra and Romice, Ombretta and Porta, Sergio (2016) Design for change : five proxies for resilience in the urban form. Open House International, 41 (4). pp. 23-30. ISSN 0168-2601

Moore-Alexander, Maggie and Zecchi, Enzo and Russell, Peter and Vidoli, Maria and Caperna, Antonio and Romice, Ombretta and Porta, Sergio (2016) The timeless way of educating architects : a new master in "Building Beauty" in Naples, Italy. In: 2016 International PUARL Conference, 2016-10-28 - 2016-10-30, University of San Francisco Campus, California.

Porta, Sergio and Rofè, Y. and Vidoli, Maria Pia (2016) The production of cities : Christopher Alexander and the problem of "System A" at large scale. In: Pursuit of Pattern Language for Societal Change - PURPLSOC, 2015-07-03 - 2015-07-05, Donau-Univeristät Krems.

Romice, Ombretta and Thwaites, Kevin and Porta, Sergio and Greaves, Mark and Barbour, Gordon and Pasino, Paola; Fleury-Bahi, Ghozlane and Pol, Enric and Navarro, Oscar, eds. (2016) Urban design and quality of life. In: The Handbook of Environmental Psychology and Quality of Life Research. International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life . Springer Publishing, Cham, pp. 241-273. ISBN 9783319314167

Porta, Sergio and Rofè, Yodan and Vidoli, Maria; Mehaffy, Michael, ed. (2016) The city and the grid : building beauty at large scale. In: A City is Not a Tree, 50th Anniversary Edition. Sustasis Press, pp. 163-181. ISBN 978-0-9893469-5-5

Fiasconaro, Alessandro and Strano, Emanuele and Nicosia, Vincenzo and Porta, Sergio and Latora, Vito (2016) Spatio-temporal analysis of micro economic activities in Rome reveals patterns of mixed-use urban evolution. PLoS ONE, 11 (3). e0151681. ISSN 1932-6203

2015

Remali, Adel M. and Porta, Sergio and Romice, Ombretta and Abudib, Huyam; Vaughan, Laura, ed. (2015) Street quality, street life, street centrality. In: Suburban Urbanities. UCL Press, London, pp. 104-129. ISBN 9781910634158

Romice, Ombretta and Porta, Sergio (2015) Plot based urbanism : a roadmap to masterplanning for change. Academy of Urbanism Journal.

Feliciotti, Alessandra and Romice, Ombretta and Porta, Sergio; Macoun, Milan and Maier, Karel, eds. (2015) Masterplanning for change : lessons and directions. In: Book of Proceedings AESOP Prague Annual Congress 20 15. Czech Technical University in Prague, CZE, pp. 3051-3065. ISBN 978-80-01-05782-7

Mehaffy, Michael W. and Porta, Sergio and Romice, Ombretta (2015) The "neighborhood unit" on trial : a case study of the impacts of urban morphology. Journal of Urbanism, 8 (2). pp. 199-217. ISSN 1754-9183

2014

Venerandi, Alessandro and Zanella, Mattia and Romice, Ombretta and Porta, Sergio (2014) The Form of Gentrification : Common Morphological Patterns in Five Gentrified Areas of London, UK. Preprint / Working Paper. arXiv.org.

Russell, Peter and Porta, Sergio and Romice, Ombretta and Vidoli, Maria Pia; (2014) Construction and therapy : an integrated approach to design build. In: Working Out: Thinking While Building. ACSA Press, pp. 98-108. ISBN 978-0-935502-94-7

Remali, Adel Mohammad and Porta, Sergio and Romice, Ombretta (2014) Correlating street quality, street life and street centrality in Tripoli, Libya. In: The Past, Present and Future of High Streets, 2014-04-28, UCL.

Porta, Sergio and Romice, Ombretta; Mäckler, Christoph and Sonne, Wolfgang, eds. (2014) Plot-based urbanism : towards time-consciousness in place-making. In: Dortmunder Vorträge zur Stadtbaukunst [Dortmunder Lectures on Civic Art]. Niggli, Sulgen, DE, pp. 82-111. ISBN 9783721208474

2013

Porta, Sergio and Strano, Emanuele and Venerandi, Alessandro and Adam, Robert and Romice, Ombretta and Pasino, Paola and Bianchi, Gianpiero (2013) Multiple centrality assessment : understanding and designing mixed use streets in professional masterplanning. Urban Design (125). pp. 12-14. ISSN 1750-712X

2012

Romice, Ombretta and Mehaffy, Michael and Porta, Sergio and Thwaites, Kevin; Kabisch, S and Kunath, A and Schweitzer-Ries, P, eds. (2012) Responding to complex urban challenges with integrated research in education : case study of a Master in Urban Design programme. In: Vulnerability, Risks and Complexity. Advances in People-Environment Studies, 3 . Hogrefe Publishing, Ashald, Gottingen, pp. 299-310. ISBN 978-0-88937-435- 5

Porta, Sergio and Latora, Vito and Wang, Fahui and Rueda, Salvador and Strano, Emanuele and Scellato, Salvatore and Cardillo, Alessio and Belli, Eugenio and Cardenas, Francisco and Cormenzana, Berta and Latora, Laura (2012) Street centrality and the location of economic activities in Barcelona. Urban Studies, 49 (7). pp. 1471-1488. ISSN 0042-0980

Strano, Emanuele and Nicosia, Vincenzo and Latora, Vito and Porta, Sergio and Barthelemy, Marc (2012) Elementary processes governing the evolution of road networks. Scientific Reports, 2. 296.

Porta, Sergio and Latora, Vito and Crucitti, P.; Thrift, Nigel and Barnes, Trevor and Peck, Jamie and Batty, Mike, eds. (2012) The network analysis of urban streets : a primal approach. In: Environment and planning. SAGE Publications Ltd, London, pp. 247-276. ISBN 9781446208083

2011

Wang, Fahui and Antipova, Anzhelika and Porta, Sergio (2011) Street centrality and land use intensity in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Journal of Transport Geography, 19 (2). pp. 285-293. ISSN 0966-6923

Porta, Sergio and Romice, Ombretta and Strano, Emanuele and Venerandi, Alessandro and Morello, Eugenio and Viana, Matheus and Da Fontoura Costa, Luciano (2011) Plot-based urbanism and urban morphometrics : measuring the evolution of blocks, street fronts and plots in cities. Preprint / Working Paper. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. (Unpublished)

2010

Porta, S. and Latora, V. and Strano, E.; Estrada, Ernesto and Fox, Maria and Higham, Desmond J and Oppo, Gian-Luca, eds. (2010) Networks in urban design. six years of research in multiple centrality assessment. In: Network science complexity in nature and technology. Springer, pp. 107-130. ISBN 9781849963954

Porta, Sergio and Romice, Ombretta (2010) Plot-based urbanism : towards time-consciousness in place-making. Preprint / Working Paper. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

Hart, L. and Hooi, J. and Romice, Ombretta and Porta, S. (2010) Under the microscope : 20 small towns in Scotland. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

Pagliardini, Pietro and Porta, Sergio and Salingaros, Nikos A.; Jiang, Bin and Yao, Xiaobai, eds. (2010) Geospatial analysis and living urban geometry. In: Geospatial analysis and modeling of urban structure and dynamics. GeoJournal Library (99). Springer, New York, pp. 331-355. ISBN 9789048185719

Proudit, T. and Lachence-Bernard, N. and Joost, S. and Porta, S. and Strano, E.; Taniar, D., ed. (2010) A network based kernel density estimator applied to Barcelona economic activities. In: Proceedings of ICCSA 2010 (2010 International Conference on Computational Science and Its Application). Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Part I). Springer, pp. 32-45. ISBN 3642121780

Romice, Ombretta and Porta, Sergio and Shah, Mahnaz (2010) The psychology of engagement : communities in action. Conservation Bulletin, 63. pp. 15-17.

Dempsey, Nicola and Brown, Caroline and Raman, Shibu and Porta, Sergio and Jenks, Mike and Jones, Colin and Bramley, Glen; Jenks, Mike and Jones, Colin, eds. (2010) Elements of urban form. In: Dimensions of the Sustainable Cities. Future City, 2 . Springer, London, pp. 21-51. ISBN 9781402086465

Mehaffy, M. and Porta, S. and Rofè, Y. and Salingaros, N. (2010) Urban nuclei and the geometry of streets : the 'emergent neighborhoods' model. Urban Design International, 15 (1). pp. 22-46.

2009

Mehaffy, Michael and Porta, Sergio and Salingaros, Nikos and Rofè, Yodan (2009) Optimizing urban structure: toward an integrated new urbanist model - urban nuclei and the geometry of streets: the 'emergent neighborhoods' model. In: 17th Congress for the New Urbanism, 2009-06-10 - 2009-06-14.

Porta, S. and Latora, V. and Wang, F. and Rueda, S. and Cormenzana, B. and Càrdenas, F. and Latora, L. and Strano, E. and Belli, E. and Cardillo, A. and Scellato, S.; Rabino, G. and Caglioni, M., eds. (2009) Correlating densities of centrality and activities in cities : the cases of Bologna (IT) and Barcelona (ES). In: Planning, Complexity and New ICT. Alinea, Firenze, Italy, pp. 37-46. ISBN 978-1-4244-1505-2

Porta, S. and Latora, V. and Wang, Fahui and Strano, E. and Cardillo, A. and Scellato, S. and Iacoviello, V. and Messora, R. (2009) Street centrality and densities of retail and services in Bologna, Italy. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 36 (3). pp. 450-465. ISSN 0265-8135

2008

Porta, Sergio and Latora, V.; Haas, Tigran and Haas, Tigran, eds. (2008) Centrality and cities : multiple centrality assessment as a tool for urban analysis and design. In: New urbanism and beyond. Rizzoli International, New York, pp. 140-145. ISBN 9780847831111

Porta, Sergio and Crucitti, Paolo and Latora, Vito (2008) Multiple centrality assessment in Parma : a network analysis of paths and open spaces. Urban Design International, 13 (1). pp. 41-50.

2007

Thwaites, Kevin and Porta, Sergio and Romice, Ombretta and Greaves, Mark (2007) Urban Sustainability through Environmental Design : Approaches to Time-People-Place Responsive Urban Spaces. Routledge, New York. ISBN 9780415384803

Scheurer, J. and Curtis, Carey and Porta, Sergio (2007) Spatial network analysis of public transport systems : developing a strategic planning tool to assess the congruence of movement and urban structure in Australian cities. In: Australasian Transport Research Forum, 2007-09-25 - 2007-09-27.

2006

Porta, Sergio and Crucitti, P. and Latora, Vito (2006) Analyse du réseau des voiries urbaines : une approche directe. Geomatique Expert, 53. pp. 56-71. ISSN 1620-4859

Porta, S. and Crucitti, P. and Latora, V. (2006) The network analysis of urban streets : a dual approach. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 369 (2). pp. 853-866. ISSN 0378-4371

Scheurer, Jan and Porta, Sergio (2006) Centrality and connectivity in public transport networks and their significance for transport sustainability in cities. In: World Planning Schools Congress, Global Planning Association Education Network,, 2006-07-13 - 2006-07-16.

Cardillo, Alessio and Scellato, Salvatore and Latora, Vito and Porta, Sergio (2006) Structural properties of planar graphs of urban street patterns. Physical Review E, 73 (6). 066107. ISSN 2470-0053

Porta, S. and Crucitti, P. and Latora, V. (2006) Centrality in networks of urban streets. Chaos, 16 (1). pp. 1-9.

Porta, S. and Crucitti, P. and Latora, V. (2006) Centrality measures in spatial networks of urban streets. Physical Review E: Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, and Related Interdisciplinary Topics, 73 (3, par). 036125-1. ISSN 2470-0053

Scellato, Salvatore and Cardillo, Alessio and Latora, Vito and Porta, Sergio (2006) The backbone of a city. European Physical Journal B - Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, 50 (1-2). pp. 221-225. ISSN 1434-6028

Porta, Sergio and Latora, Vito and Crucitti, P. (2006) The network analysis of urban streets : a primal approach. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, 33 (5). pp. 705-725. ISSN 0265-8135

2005

Porta, Sergio; Faraldi, Luc, ed. (2005) Et si Icare choisissait le labyrinthe? In: La Participation des Habitants et la Democratie Locale. Délégation interministérielle à la Ville, Paris, p. 71.

Porta, Sergio and Renne, John Luciano (2005) Linking urban design to sustainability : formal indicators of social urban sustainability field research in Perth, Western Australia. Urban Design International, 10 (1). pp. 51-64.

2003

Porta, Sergio; Tolley, Rodney, ed. (2003) Formal indicators of social urban sustainability : a field research in Western Australia. In: Sustainable Transport. Woodhead Publishing, Boston, pp. 107-122. ISBN 9781855736146

1999

Porta, S. (1999) The community and public spaces : ecological thinking, mobility and social life in the open spaces of the city of the future. Futures, 31 (5). pp. 437-456. ISSN 0016-3287