| Titre | The morphology and growth of urban technical networks: a fractal approach | |
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| Auteur | Serge Thibault | |
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Revue | Flux |
| Numéro | no 19, janvier-mars 1995 | |
| Page | 17-30 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The application of fractal geometry to the modelling of some aspects of urban technical networks has developed only in the past decade. This theory makes it possible to take into account the apparent complexity of the spatial development of certain networks, such as roads, sewers, transportation networks, and so on. Insofar as the morphological aspects of these networks are concerned, the quantification of their form differs according to whether they are perceived as networks for exchange, or as networks for evacuation and distribution. Then one has either a dimension of contents, or else a dimension of localization. Since, in addition, the fractal dimension illustrates an allometric creative process for complex forms, we are invited to establish the connection between this theory and the question of the spatial growth of urban technical networks. This does not necessarily mean that one is obliged to ascribe to this theory the thesis of strictly endogenous development. There are at least two related processes which it is necessary to envisage. The first relates to principles which determine the organization of a base or primary structure, upon which develops a second process which may be related to the setting into place of a principle of more or less random ramification. Can one speak of a network effect in the context of spatial development? Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/flux_1154-2721_1995_num_11_19_1015 |
