Enhancing urban design performance through parametric analysis: Insights from the Green City of Ben Guerir, Morocco

IF 3.9 2区社会学 Q1 URBAN STUDIES

Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI:10.1016/j.jum.2024.11.001

Houda Er-Retby , Abdelkader Outzourhit , Abdellah Nait-Taour , Mohamed Oualid Mghazli , Hicham Mastouri , Mohamed El Mankibi , Mostafa Benzaazoua

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Effectively assisting urban designers in developing resilient urban areas requires innovative approaches. Moreover, using spatial analysis is necessary to assess the effectiveness of the conceptual design depending on different specifications. Even though these concepts are closely related, they have been done separately. To overcome these limits, in this paper, a decision tool is created using the Grasshopper for Rhinoceros 3D software as a core component of a flexible system to generate the urban structure and optimize land use. The tool includes several processes for analyzing urban distribution using spatial analysis, such as accessibility and visibility. The approach was systematically applied and evaluated in a simulated environment using BenGuerir's Green City as a case study. Therefore, it established an efficient infrastructure network facilitating seamless pedestrian movement. It also allows the creation of diverse building types in key locations to suit people's requirements based on urban planning rules to sustainably conserve the area by balancing resources, activities, and people in space.

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Journal of Urban Management URBAN STUDIES-

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9.50

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65 days

期刊介绍： Journal of Urban Management (JUM) is the Official Journal of Zhejiang University and the Chinese Association of Urban Management, an international, peer-reviewed open access journal covering planning, administering, regulating, and governing urban complexity. JUM has its two-fold aims set to integrate the studies across fields in urban planning and management, as well as to provide a more holistic perspective on problem solving. 1) Explore innovative management skills for taming thorny problems that arise with global urbanization 2) Provide a platform to deal with urban affairs whose solutions must be looked at from an interdisciplinary perspective.