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Simplified detection of urban types#

Example adapted from the SDSC 2021 Workshop led by Martin Fleischmann. You can see the recording of the workshop on YouTube.

This example illustrates the potential of morphometrics captured by momepy in capturing the structure of cities. We will pick a town, fetch its data from the OpenStreetMap, and analyse it to detect individual types of urban structure within it.

This method is only illustrative and is based on the more extensive one published by Fleischmann et al. (2021) available from martinfleis/numerical-taxonomy-paper.

Fleischmann M, Feliciotti A, Romice O and Porta S (2021) Methodological Foundation of a Numerical Taxonomy of Urban Form. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, doi: 10.1177/23998083211059835

It depends on the following packages:

- momepy
- osmnx
- clustergram
- bokeh
- scikit-learn
- geopy
- ipywidgets
[1]:
import geopandas
import libpysal
import momepy
import osmnx
import pandas

from clustergram import Clustergram

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from bokeh.io import output_notebook
from bokeh.plotting import show

output_notebook()
Loading BokehJS ...

Pick a place, ideally a town with a good coverage in OpenStreetMap and its local CRS.

[2]:
place = 'Znojmo, Czechia'
local_crs = 5514

We can interactively explore the place we just selected.

[3]:
geopandas.tools.geocode(place).explore()
[3]:
Make this Notebook Trusted to load map: File -> Trust Notebook

Input data#

We can use OSMnx to quickly download data from OpenStreetMap. If you intend to download larger areas, we recommend using pyrosm instead.

Buildings#

[4]:
buildings = osmnx.features_from_place(place, tags={'building':True})
buildings.head()
[4]:
power geometry amenity brand brand:wikidata brand:wikipedia check_date name operator operator:wikidata ... material name:signed ref monitoring:water_level takeaway shelter_type construction ways type emergency
element_type osmid
node 3372076291 NaN POINT (16.05376 48.84683) NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 7/I/10/A-120 NaN NaN ... NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN
3372076393 NaN POINT (16.05581 48.84158) NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 7/I/11/A-140 Z NaN NaN ... NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN
3372076394 NaN POINT (16.05867 48.83522) NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 7/I/12/A-220 NaN NaN ... NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN
3372076428 NaN POINT (16.03949 48.85599) NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 7/I/8/E NaN NaN ... NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN
3372076429 NaN POINT (16.04133 48.85501) NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN 7/I/9/E NaN NaN ... NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN

5 rows × 119 columns

The OSM input may need a bit of cleaning to ensure only proper polygons are kept.

[5]:
buildings.geom_type.value_counts()
[5]:
Polygon    12214
Point          7
Name: count, dtype: int64
[6]:
buildings = buildings[buildings.geom_type == "Polygon"].reset_index(drop=True)

And we should re-project the data from WGS84 to the local projection in meters (momepy default values assume meters not feet or degrees). We will also drop unnecessary columns.

[7]:
buildings = buildings[["geometry"]].to_crs(local_crs)

Finally, we can assign unique ID to each row.

[8]:
buildings["uID"] = range(len(buildings))
buildings.head()
[8]:
geometry uID
0 POLYGON ((-643743.474 -1193358.749, -643743.30... 0
1 POLYGON ((-643751.446 -1193530.633, -643749.37... 1
2 POLYGON ((-643281.601 -1193130.831, -643283.76... 2
3 POLYGON ((-643381.904 -1193174.697, -643388.48... 3
4 POLYGON ((-643370.450 -1193130.215, -643398.26... 4

Streets#

Similar operations are done with streets.

[9]:
osm_graph = osmnx.graph_from_place(place, network_type='drive')
osm_graph = osmnx.projection.project_graph(osm_graph, to_crs=local_crs)
streets = osmnx.graph_to_gdfs(
    osm_graph,
    nodes=False,
    edges=True,
    node_geometry=False,
    fill_edge_geometry=True
)
[10]:
streets.head()
[10]:
osmid ref name highway maxspeed oneway reversed length geometry lanes bridge junction width tunnel access
u v key
74103628 639231391 0 33733060 361 Přímětická secondary 50 False False 24.574 LINESTRING (-643239.057 -1192850.232, -643229.... NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN
3775990798 0 33733060 361 Přímětická secondary 50 False True 60.354 LINESTRING (-643239.057 -1192850.232, -643241.... NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN
639231391 74103628 0 33733060 361 Přímětická secondary 50 False True 24.574 LINESTRING (-643229.639 -1192872.949, -643239.... NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN
74142638 0 33733060 361 Přímětická secondary 50 False False 54.260 LINESTRING (-643229.639 -1192872.949, -643219.... NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN
639231314 0 50313241 NaN Mičurinova residential NaN True False 101.376 LINESTRING (-643229.639 -1192872.949, -643233.... NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN

We can also do some preprocessing using momepy to ensure we have proper network topology.

[11]:
streets = momepy.remove_false_nodes(streets)
streets = streets[["geometry"]]
streets["nID"] = range(len(streets))
/Users/martin/miniforge3/envs/stable/lib/python3.12/site-packages/geopandas/array.py:1459: UserWarning: CRS not set for some of the concatenation inputs. Setting output's CRS as S-JTSK / Krovak East North (the single non-null crs provided).
  return GeometryArray(data, crs=_get_common_crs(to_concat))
[12]:
streets.head()
[12]:
geometry nID
0 LINESTRING (-643239.057 -1192850.232, -643229.... 0
1 LINESTRING (-643239.057 -1192850.232, -643241.... 1
2 LINESTRING (-643229.639 -1192872.949, -643239.... 2
3 LINESTRING (-643229.639 -1192872.949, -643219.... 3
4 LINESTRING (-643229.639 -1192872.949, -643233.... 4

Generated data#

Tessellation#

Given building footprints:

blg

We can generate a spatial unit using morphological tessellation:

tess

[13]:
limit = momepy.buffered_limit(buildings, 100)

tessellation = momepy.Tessellation(buildings, "uID", limit, verbose=False, segment=1)
tessellation = tessellation.tessellation
/var/folders/2f/fhks6w_d0k556plcv3rfmshw0000gn/T/ipykernel_84424/1328706492.py:3: UserWarning: Tessellation does not fully match buildings. 20 element(s) collapsed during generation - unique_id: {3968, 4227, 11255, 10686, 10687, 9026, 4177, 11473, 11474, 8534, 11478, 4185, 4188, 10465, 9061, 3958, 4215, 4218, 4222, 4223}.
  tessellation = momepy.Tessellation(buildings, "uID", limit, verbose=False, segment=1)
/var/folders/2f/fhks6w_d0k556plcv3rfmshw0000gn/T/ipykernel_84424/1328706492.py:3: UserWarning: Tessellation contains MultiPolygon elements. Initial objects should  be edited. `unique_id` of affected elements: [4167, 3227, 11783, 3173, 10997].
  tessellation = momepy.Tessellation(buildings, "uID", limit, verbose=False, segment=1)

Measure#

Measure individual morphometric characters. For details see the User Guide and the API reference.

Dimensions#

[16]:
buildings["area"] = buildings.area
tessellation["area"] = tessellation.area
streets["length"] = streets.length

Shape#

[17]:
buildings['eri'] = momepy.EquivalentRectangularIndex(buildings).series
buildings['elongation'] = momepy.Elongation(buildings).series
tessellation['convexity'] = momepy.Convexity(tessellation).series
streets["linearity"] = momepy.Linearity(streets).series
[18]:
fig, ax = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(24, 12))

buildings.plot("eri", ax=ax[0], scheme="natural_breaks", legend=True)
buildings.plot("elongation", ax=ax[1], scheme="natural_breaks", legend=True)

ax[0].set_axis_off()
ax[1].set_axis_off()
../_images/examples_clustering_37_0.png
[19]:
fig, ax = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(24, 12))

tessellation.plot("convexity", ax=ax[0], scheme="natural_breaks", legend=True)
streets.plot("linearity", ax=ax[1], scheme="natural_breaks", legend=True)

ax[0].set_axis_off()
ax[1].set_axis_off()
../_images/examples_clustering_38_0.png

Spatial distribution#

[20]:
buildings["shared_walls"] = momepy.SharedWallsRatio(buildings).series
buildings.plot("shared_walls", figsize=(12, 12), scheme="natural_breaks", legend=True).set_axis_off()
/Users/martin/miniforge3/envs/stable/lib/python3.12/site-packages/momepy/distribution.py:135: FutureWarning: The `query_bulk()` method is deprecated and will be removed in GeoPandas 1.0. You can use the `query()` method instead.
  inp, res = gdf.sindex.query_bulk(gdf.geometry, predicate="intersects")
/Users/martin/miniforge3/envs/stable/lib/python3.12/site-packages/shapely/set_operations.py:131: RuntimeWarning: invalid value encountered in intersection
  return lib.intersection(a, b, **kwargs)
../_images/examples_clustering_40_1.png

Generate spatial weights matrix using libpysal.

[21]:
queen_1 = libpysal.weights.contiguity.Queen.from_dataframe(tessellation, ids="uID", silence_warnings=True)
[22]:
tessellation["neighbors"] = momepy.Neighbors(tessellation, queen_1, "uID", weighted=True, verbose=False).series
tessellation["covered_area"] = momepy.CoveredArea(tessellation, queen_1, "uID", verbose=False).series
buildings["neighbor_distance"] = momepy.NeighborDistance(buildings, queen_1, "uID", verbose=False).series
[23]:
fig, ax = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(24, 12))

buildings.plot("neighbor_distance", ax=ax[0], scheme="natural_breaks", legend=True)
tessellation.plot("covered_area", ax=ax[1], scheme="natural_breaks", legend=True)

ax[0].set_axis_off()
ax[1].set_axis_off()
../_images/examples_clustering_44_0.png
[24]:
queen_3 = momepy.sw_high(k=3, weights=queen_1)
buildings_q1 = libpysal.weights.contiguity.Queen.from_dataframe(buildings, silence_warnings=True)

buildings['interbuilding_distance'] = momepy.MeanInterbuildingDistance(buildings, queen_1, 'uID', 3, verbose=False).series
buildings['adjacency'] = momepy.BuildingAdjacency(buildings, queen_3, 'uID', buildings_q1, verbose=False).series
/var/folders/2f/fhks6w_d0k556plcv3rfmshw0000gn/T/ipykernel_84424/738459904.py:2: FutureWarning: `use_index` defaults to False but will default to True in future. Set True/False directly to control this behavior and silence this warning
  buildings_q1 = libpysal.weights.contiguity.Queen.from_dataframe(buildings, silence_warnings=True)
[25]:
fig, ax = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(24, 12))

buildings.plot("interbuilding_distance", ax=ax[0], scheme="natural_breaks", legend=True)
buildings.plot("adjacency", ax=ax[1], scheme="natural_breaks", legend=True)

ax[0].set_axis_off()
ax[1].set_axis_off()
../_images/examples_clustering_46_0.png
[26]:
profile = momepy.StreetProfile(streets, buildings)
streets["width"] = profile.w
streets["width_deviation"] = profile.wd
streets["openness"] = profile.o
[27]:
fig, ax = plt.subplots(1, 3, figsize=(24, 12))

streets.plot("width", ax=ax[0], scheme="natural_breaks", legend=True)
streets.plot("width_deviation", ax=ax[1], scheme="natural_breaks", legend=True)
streets.plot("openness", ax=ax[2], scheme="natural_breaks", legend=True)

ax[0].set_axis_off()
ax[1].set_axis_off()
ax[2].set_axis_off()
../_images/examples_clustering_48_0.png

Intensity#

[28]:
tessellation['car'] = momepy.AreaRatio(tessellation, buildings, 'area', 'area', 'uID').series
tessellation.plot("car", figsize=(12, 12), vmin=0, vmax=1, legend=True).set_axis_off()
../_images/examples_clustering_50_0.png

Connectivity#

[29]:
graph = momepy.gdf_to_nx(streets)
graph = momepy.node_degree(graph)
graph = momepy.closeness_centrality(graph, radius=400, distance="mm_len")
graph = momepy.meshedness(graph, radius=400, distance="mm_len")
nodes, streets = momepy.nx_to_gdf(graph)
/Users/martin/miniforge3/envs/stable/lib/python3.12/site-packages/tqdm/std.py:580: DeprecationWarning: datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp() is deprecated and scheduled for removal in a future version. Use timezone-aware objects to represent datetimes in UTC: datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp, datetime.UTC).
  if rate and total else datetime.utcfromtimestamp(0))
[30]:
fig, ax = plt.subplots(1, 3, figsize=(24, 12))

nodes.plot("degree", ax=ax[0], scheme="natural_breaks", legend=True, markersize=1)
nodes.plot("closeness", ax=ax[1], scheme="natural_breaks", legend=True, markersize=1, legend_kwds={"fmt": "{:.6f}"})
nodes.plot("meshedness", ax=ax[2], scheme="natural_breaks", legend=True, markersize=1)

ax[0].set_axis_off()
ax[1].set_axis_off()
ax[2].set_axis_off()
../_images/examples_clustering_53_0.png
[31]:
buildings["nodeID"] = momepy.get_node_id(buildings, nodes, streets, "nodeID", "nID")
/Users/martin/miniforge3/envs/stable/lib/python3.12/site-packages/tqdm/std.py:580: DeprecationWarning: datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp() is deprecated and scheduled for removal in a future version. Use timezone-aware objects to represent datetimes in UTC: datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp, datetime.UTC).
  if rate and total else datetime.utcfromtimestamp(0))

Link all data together (to tessellation cells or buildings).

[32]:
tessellation.head()
[32]:
uID geometry nID area convexity neighbors covered_area car
0 5329 POLYGON ((-637358.313 -1200006.277, -637357.92... 637.0 27736.670898 0.995293 0.003108 41793.250296 0.007476
1 5295 POLYGON ((-636869.686 -1199824.120, -636870.16... 647.0 19855.193192 0.942935 0.005466 59301.601010 0.022276
2 10470 POLYGON ((-637462.192 -1199942.387, -637450.89... 637.0 5980.537479 0.900015 0.006719 23484.755027 0.066270
3 5328 POLYGON ((-636567.904 -1199437.917, -636567.88... 1636.0 17651.421590 0.989690 0.005897 43087.114344 0.005919
4 10476 POLYGON ((-637599.665 -1199909.097, -637595.79... 637.0 6221.647570 0.829355 0.010157 43342.518118 0.049808
[33]:
merged = tessellation.merge(buildings.drop(columns=['nID', 'geometry']), on='uID')
merged = merged.merge(streets.drop(columns='geometry'), on='nID', how='left')
merged = merged.merge(nodes.drop(columns='geometry'), on='nodeID', how='left')
[34]:
merged.columns
[34]:
Index(['uID', 'geometry', 'nID', 'area_x', 'convexity', 'neighbors',
       'covered_area', 'car', 'area_y', 'eri', 'elongation', 'shared_walls',
       'neighbor_distance', 'interbuilding_distance', 'adjacency', 'nodeID',
       'length', 'linearity', 'width', 'width_deviation', 'openness', 'mm_len',
       'node_start', 'node_end', 'degree', 'closeness', 'meshedness'],
      dtype='object')

Understanding the context#

Measure first, second and third quartile of distribution of values within an area around each building.

[35]:
percentiles = []
for column in merged.columns.drop(["uID", "nodeID", "nID", 'mm_len', 'node_start', 'node_end', "geometry"]):
    perc = momepy.Percentiles(merged, column, queen_3, "uID", verbose=False).frame
    perc.columns = [f"{column}_" + str(x) for x in perc.columns]
    percentiles.append(perc)
[36]:
percentiles_joined = pandas.concat(percentiles, axis=1)
percentiles_joined.head()
[36]:
area_x_25 area_x_50 area_x_75 convexity_25 convexity_50 convexity_75 neighbors_25 neighbors_50 neighbors_75 covered_area_25 ... openness_75 degree_25 degree_50 degree_75 closeness_25 closeness_50 closeness_75 meshedness_25 meshedness_50 meshedness_75
0 7151.505439 8460.534527 9102.552267 0.874500 0.888902 0.929755 0.006852 0.007068 0.007307 38509.340859 ... 0.952261 6.0 6.0 6.0 0.000087 0.000087 0.000087 0.894737 0.894737 0.894737
1 2049.363971 4069.346269 7207.822493 0.934390 0.957400 0.980033 0.015075 0.020266 0.027499 26373.762179 ... 1.000000 4.0 6.0 6.0 0.000094 0.000094 0.000099 0.809524 0.894737 1.000000
2 4869.281368 6119.443335 9102.552267 0.874500 0.947803 0.971754 0.007068 0.008105 0.009836 28474.090834 ... 0.952261 6.0 6.0 6.0 0.000087 0.000087 0.000087 0.894737 0.894737 0.894737
3 979.082829 2497.478414 9114.443041 0.945396 0.976589 0.989613 0.011906 0.027560 0.044586 8894.839436 ... 0.677778 1.0 4.0 7.0 0.000049 0.000063 0.000087 0.736842 0.809524 0.809524
4 5615.435877 6119.443335 8460.534527 0.888902 0.947803 0.971754 0.007598 0.008616 0.009836 27790.702394 ... 0.952261 6.0 6.0 6.0 0.000087 0.000087 0.000087 0.894737 0.894737 0.894737

5 rows × 60 columns

See the difference between original convexity and spatially lagged one.

[37]:
fig, ax = plt.subplots(1, 2, figsize=(24, 12))

tessellation.plot("convexity", ax=ax[0], scheme="natural_breaks", legend=True)
merged.plot(percentiles_joined['convexity_50'].values, ax=ax[1], scheme="natural_breaks", legend=True)

ax[0].set_axis_off()
ax[1].set_axis_off()
../_images/examples_clustering_63_0.png

Clustering#

Now we can use obtained values within a cluster analysis that should detect types of urban structure.

Standardize values before clustering.

[38]:
standardized = (percentiles_joined - percentiles_joined.mean()) / percentiles_joined.std()
standardized.head()
[38]:
area_x_25 area_x_50 area_x_75 convexity_25 convexity_50 convexity_75 neighbors_25 neighbors_50 neighbors_75 covered_area_25 ... openness_75 degree_25 degree_50 degree_75 closeness_25 closeness_50 closeness_75 meshedness_25 meshedness_50 meshedness_75
0 3.874598 3.533443 2.323781 -1.155053 -2.962302 -3.777994 -2.142978 -2.316295 -2.359476 4.382338 ... 1.567482 1.157891 0.759092 0.405637 0.271975 0.011717 -0.211542 1.432601 1.194016 0.727337
1 0.832751 1.410208 1.680435 0.651102 0.318504 0.394242 -1.533425 -1.566368 -1.503667 2.688808 ... 1.810087 0.107411 0.759092 0.405637 0.384216 0.113805 -0.041475 1.114745 1.194016 1.027147
2 2.513958 2.401474 2.323781 -1.155053 -0.141132 -0.292831 -2.126994 -2.257388 -2.252308 2.981910 ... 1.567482 1.157891 0.759092 0.405637 0.271975 0.011717 -0.211542 1.432601 1.194016 0.727337
3 0.194660 0.650176 2.327818 0.983041 1.237615 1.189205 -1.768334 -1.151946 -0.779495 0.249610 ... 0.172577 -1.468310 -0.372709 1.030416 -0.390730 -0.370683 -0.216644 0.843632 0.881838 0.484633
4 2.958808 2.401474 2.105787 -0.720716 -0.141132 -0.292831 -2.087688 -2.228352 -2.252308 2.886543 ... 1.567482 1.157891 0.759092 0.405637 0.271975 0.011717 -0.211542 1.432601 1.194016 0.727337

5 rows × 60 columns

How many clusters?#

To determine how many clusters we should aim for, we can use a little package called clustergram. See its documentation for details.

[39]:
cgram = Clustergram(range(1, 12), n_init=10, random_state=42)
cgram.fit(standardized.fillna(0))

show(cgram.bokeh())
K=1 skipped. Mean computed from data directly.
K=2 fitted in 0.072 seconds.
K=3 fitted in 0.073 seconds.
K=4 fitted in 0.084 seconds.
K=5 fitted in 0.149 seconds.
K=6 fitted in 0.139 seconds.
K=7 fitted in 0.134 seconds.
K=8 fitted in 0.196 seconds.
K=9 fitted in 0.230 seconds.
K=10 fitted in 0.261 seconds.
K=11 fitted in 0.251 seconds.

Clustegram gives us also the final labels. (Normally, you would run the final clustering on much larger number of initialisations.)

[40]:
cgram.labels.head()
[40]:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
0 0 1 0 3 4 1 1 7 6 7 9
1 0 1 0 3 4 1 1 1 6 7 9
2 0 1 0 3 4 1 1 7 6 7 9
3 0 1 0 0 1 2 5 1 3 4 6
4 0 1 0 3 4 1 1 7 6 7 9
[41]:
merged["cluster"] = cgram.labels[8].values
urban_types = buildings[["geometry", "uID"]].merge(merged[["uID", "cluster"]], on="uID")
urban_types.plot("cluster", categorical=True, figsize=(16, 16), legend=True).set_axis_off()
../_images/examples_clustering_70_0.png
[42]:
ax = urban_types.plot("cluster", categorical=True, figsize=(16, 16), legend=True)
ax.set_xlim(-645000, -641000)
ax.set_ylim(-1195500, -1191000)
ax.set_axis_off()
../_images/examples_clustering_71_0.png