Comparer des méthodes

	Urban Form Morphometrics	Urban Sprawl Measurement
Domaine	Urban Studies	Urban Studies
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	2019	2014
Auteur d'origine	Quantitative urban-morphology tradition; momepy toolkit by Martin Fleischmann	Reid Ewing & Shima Hamidi (building on Galster et al.)
Type	Systematic quantitative measurement of urban form across buildings, plots, blocks, and streets	Composite index combining multiple dimensions of urban form into a sprawl/compactness score
Source fondatrice	Fleischmann, M. (2019). momepy: Urban Morphology Measuring Toolkit. Journal of Open Source Software, 4(43), 1807.	Ewing, R., & Hamidi, S. (2015). Compactness versus sprawl: A review of recent evidence from the United States. Journal of Planning Literature, 30(4), 413–432.
Alias	Urban Morphometrics, Quantitative Urban Morphology, Morphometric Analysis of Urban Form, Built-Form Morphometrics	Sprawl Index, Compactness Index of Sprawl, Ewing Sprawl Index, Composite Sprawl Measure
Apparentées	4	4
Résumé	Urban form morphometrics is the systematic, quantitative measurement of the physical form of cities — the dimensions, shapes, spatial arrangement, intensity, and connectivity of buildings, plots, blocks, and streets. Rather than describing morphology in words, it computes hundreds of reproducible numerical characters on each morphological element and its local context, turning the qualitative tradition of urban morphology into a measurable science. The open-source momepy toolkit, introduced by Martin Fleischmann in 2019, standardized this workflow, building a morphological tessellation from building footprints and computing dimension, shape, distribution, intensity, and connectivity characters at scale.	Urban sprawl measurement quantifies how compact or sprawling a metropolitan region is by combining several distinct dimensions of urban form into a single composite index. The dominant approach, developed by Reid Ewing, Shima Hamidi and colleagues, captures four factors — development density, land-use mix, activity centering, and street-network connectivity — and folds standardized indicators of each into one score, calibrated so the average region equals 100 and higher values mean greater compactness. Because sprawl is multidimensional, no single variable such as density adequately describes it, which is why the composite-index strategy has become the standard for comparing regions and linking form to outcomes.