What innovative methodologies or analytical frameworks have been successfully employed to assess the coevolution of population dynamics and urban morphology, and how can these be adapted to enhance sustainable urban planning practices?
This question encourages discussions on various methodologies, including qualitative and quantitative approaches, modeling techniques, and data integration methods that could be relevant to your research.
This is a very good question as population dynamics is clearly connected to urban morphology and yet, typically assessed separately.
While urban economists as well as scholars such as Jane Jacobs (1961) examine and describe the built environments and their operating principles primarily as a function of population densities, scholars from the field of architecture and urban design study the same environments primarily in terms of their morphological characteristics (e.g., their built density).
A book that relates spatial studies to numerical analyses is:
- Tröger, E., & Eberle, D. (2014). Density & Atmosphere: On Factors relating to Building Density in the European City. Berlin: Ambra Verlag.
Although Tröger's and Eberle's research focuses on Central European cities and does not consider population dynamics (but just actual population patterns), their method of assessing building density on the level of city quarters might be of value for your research - as the issue of building density (and its relation to transport infrastructure) is key to any sustainable urban development.
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