The present research datasets were processed for the article “The global homogenization of urban form. An assessment of 194 cities across time” [1]. They consist of land cover spatial layers, longitude and latitude point ...

The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.Latin American cities have experienced rapid urbanization and with it the social and environmental challenges caused by urban sprawl. Over the last ...

This paper analyzes the impact of intensive residential densification on the urban fabric of selected neighborhoods in the Metropolitan Area of Santiago. We explore the effect of "segmentation" proposed by Diez (1996), ...

Architecture, and particularly the architecture of housing, has been critically important in the history of humanity; however, its analysis has not often addressed all of its complexity. There is a need to understand the ...

population and generally without an adequate planning process. In Latin American cities, spatial dynamics, urban fabrics and territorial distribution, among others, are not considered when plans are developed. In the ...