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Types of Spatial Scene Patterns

1. Linear Patterns

• Description: Spatial objects align in a straight or curvilinear manner, often along linear features like roads, rivers, or railways.

• Example: Buildings aligned along highways or railways.

• Literature: Studies on transportation corridors and urban growth patterns often highlight this type of pattern.

2. Clustered Patterns

• Description: Objects are grouped closely together, forming dense clusters.

• Example: High-density residential areas, industrial zones.

• Literature: Research on urban sprawl and density metrics in urban planning.

3. Grid-Like Patterns

• Description: Objects are arranged in a regular, orthogonal grid structure.

• Example: Planned city layouts, such as Manhattan or many Chinese urban developments.

• Literature: Urban morphology and cadastral systems analysis.

4. Radial Patterns

• Description: Objects radiate outward from a central point, often seen in cities with a central business district (CBD).

• Example: Urban forms of cities like Paris, with radial roads extending from a central plaza.

• Literature: Studies in city planning and central place theory.

5. Dispersed Patterns

• Description: Objects are distributed sparsely and randomly over a large area.

• Example: Rural settlements or suburban areas with low-density housing.

• Literature: Landscape ecology and spatial point pattern analysis.

6. Hierarchical Patterns

• Description: Objects are distributed in a nested manner, with smaller clusters around larger ones.

• Example: Satellite towns around a metropolitan core.

• Literature: Urban hierarchy and fractal city models.

7. Radial-Concentric Patterns

• Description: A combination of radial and concentric arrangements, where rings of development encircle a central core.

• Example: Classic urban models like the Burgess Concentric Zone Model.

• Literature: Urban economics and sociology.

8. Fractal or Irregular Patterns

• Description: Highly irregular and fragmented patterns, often resulting from organic or unplanned growth.

• Example: Informal settlements or historical districts.

• Literature: Fractal analysis and urban complexity studies.

Duqi Liu Thank you for your response. Linear pattern, grid-like pattern and radial pattern are good suggestions. However, other patterns are mostly from a macro perspective. I prefer to understand the spatial structures that exist between buildings and roads, and the pattern types of spatial scenes.