TABLE OF CONTENTS - The Professional Green Building Council

Theme B: Creating a livable, healthy and environmentally viable citieslower carbon footprint. In order to form a database that can help identify theunderlying interaction mechanism between the urban morphology and the energypatterns, a number of cases were constructed by studying the GIS of different citiesone square kilometre morphology (Fig. 10 and 11).Figure 10: Paris (lower left) and Shanghai morphologies at the same scaleFigure 11: Beijing, Shanghai, Paris and Berlin urban textures at the same scale5.4 MethodologyThe analysis will include the following stages:1. The construction of a typology of urban formsThe construction of this typology will result in the calculation of quantitativeparameters. The parameters will describe morphological types:On the one hand, through their physical characteristics: form of constituent units,grids, sizes, degree of regularity, modes of assembly, degrees of connectivity,On the other hand, their economic and social characteristics: levels of mixed uses,intensity of activities, density of occupation and uses, size of the use grid,distribution of activities, density (number of inhabitants per hectare).427