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URBAN SHAPES AND URBAN GRIDS : a comparative study of Adriatic and Ionian coastal cities 009

This paper models in a precise quantitative manner the proposition that the properties of urban shapes strongly and significantly affect the syntactic properties of urban grids. Urban shapes are described according to three measures of shape compactness and fragmentation and their skewness of distribution. The analysis of a large sample of coastal cities has shown that urban shapes affect the i...

Evolution of Street Networks in Adriatic and Ionian Coastal Cities 1769-2007

Coastal cities in the Adriatic and Ionian region are studied according to three evolution stages spanning from the end of eighteenth century to the present. The urban growth during this period has occurred according to successive additions without significant modifications of inner city areas. Street networks are represented with linear maps and are analyzed according to measures of connectivit...

Addressing uncertainty in modelling cumulative impacts within maritime spatial planning in the Adriatic and Ionian region

Maritime spatial planning (MSP) is envisaged as a tool to apply an ecosystem-based approach to the marine and coastal realms, aiming at ensuring that the collective pressure of human activities is kept within acceptable limits. Cumulative impacts (CI) assessment can support science-based MSP, in order to understand the existing and potential impacts of human uses on the marine environment. A CI...

Ionian Volcanoes Reveal Their Temperatures

Introduction: Cassini ISS imaged the surface of Io in eclipse by Jupiter in late 2000 and early 2001 and obtained multiple-filter images over timescales of hours. Images like these have been used to study the temperature and variability of the numerous hotspots on the surface [1, 2, 3]. For example, Pele was found to be an active lava lake with most likely basaltic lava composition [2]. New Hor...

The Ionian at Aristophanes