What is your suggestion for a complete resource in drawing diagrams to analyze issues in urban planning and design? What more up-to-date diagrams can help an urban planner and designer?
I recently used the Sankey chart. How about you?
Dear Amirhosein Shabani , could you share an example of the Sankey chart you have used in analyze issues in urban planning and design? I prefer to use a more applied and spatial (urban) type of diagram, like attached. Sources:
Chapter Integration of Water Management and Urban Design for Climate...
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Dear Nanco Dolman :
Sankey diagrams are used to make connections between several related concepts based on their frequencies. This diagram provides a pleasant picture of the intensity of the relationship between the variables. I used this chart in an article but it is still being edited. I was very happy to see the title of your book chapter because I am interested in both health and the city and the climate, and today we in Iran and in our city of Isfahan are deeply involved with water as a drought crisis and We need for applied research on it.
The answer to this is never easy. There is modest definition in the field as to what constitutes a "proper" set of information, and in addition, there can be conflict between graphic legibility and completeness. For legibility, one preference is for simplicity and careful working of the variables graphically. Refer to Kevin Lynch, and Edward Tufte for examples.
Dear Geoffrey Goldberg
Thanks for your answer. I agree with you and please share your experience in this field!
Try counting and comparing number of road and street junctions pet sq. km. Start with something familiar, like Paris, France. Add number of piazzas as a good indicator. By the way, Urban Design is a very detailed approach to planning, maybe too detailed.
I would take issue with the description of urban design as too detailed for planning. UD and planning are two different disciplines, and they operate with different tools, methodologies. As a designer, I prefer urban design as an approach to urban issues, as it is largely visually based, and allows for easy communication (if done well) of complex ideas. Also, the ability to abstract provides variation in the amount of information - from generalized patterns to more particular details.
Planning approaches problems more analytically, and speaks well to other disciplines involving policy, public/private interface, and legalities, as well as other data-driven sources of information. Each of these two have their place and their merits (as well as their limitations).
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