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AKSOE: Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

AKSOE 10: Poster Session (posters are expected to be displayed the full day 8:30-18:00)

AKSOE 10.39: Poster

Mittwoch, 29. März 2006, 16:00–18:00, P2

Can Urban Clusters Trace Political Changes? — •Efrat Blumenfeld-Lieberthal¹, Iris Aravot¹, Lucien Benguigui ², and Daniel Czamanski ¹ — ¹Faculty of Architecture and Towm Planning, Technion - IIT — ²Department of Physics and Solid State Institute, Technion - IIT

This paper presents a relatively new approach to understanding the spatial behavior and structure of cities. According to this approach, based on the work of Schweitzer and Steinbrink (1997), cities are viewed as physical objects characterized by morphologies. Instead of data organized according to political units, such as municipalities, cities are comprised of urban clusters. Clusters are defined as contiguous built-up urban areas.

By means of historic maps from 1935 to 2000 of the Tel-Aviv metropolis we present cluster statistics and analyses of their dynamics. We present characteristics of clusters, including their number, area, rank-size distribution, and morphology, along with area-perimeter relations. We examined the characteristics of the entire metropolis in general and of the biggest cluster specifically. The findings of our analysis present significant anomalies in the 1960s and in the 1980s.

For the anomalous years we examined historical events. We suggest that the development of the Tel Aviv metropolis in terms of morphology can be divided into 3 stages that are associated with socio-economic trends and processes: (1) 1930s - 1960s (2) 1960s - 1980s (3) 1980s - 2000s.