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TITLE: Geographical Characterisation of British Urban Form and Function using the Spatial Signatures Framework 

AUTHORS: M. Fleischmann, D. Arribas-Bel 

FUNDING: ESRC/Alan Turing Institute, project reference ES/T005238/1  

COVERAGE: Great Britain   

GEOGRAPHIC UNIT: Bespoke signature geometry. Lookup tables for OA and LSOA are available. 

TEMPORAL COVERAGE: 2020 

DATA SOURCES: 

    - Ordnance Survey (OpenMap Local) 
    - ONS Census 2011 
    - Scotland's Census 2011 
    - Geolytix 
    - Historic England 
    - Historic Environment Scotland 
    - Lle Geo-Portal for Wales 
    - VIIRS DNB Nighttime Lights 
    - CDRC Food Hygiene Rating Scheme Ratings 
    - OpenStreetMap 
    - Copernicus Land Monitoring Service 
    - GHS-composite-S2 R2020A 
    - CDRC Retail centres 

CLUSTERING METHODOLOGY: K-Means clustering; 
  
SIGNATURE TYPES: 

    - Wild countryside 
    - Countryside agriculture 
    - Urban buffer 
    - Open sprawl 
    - Disconnected suburbia 
    - Accessible suburbia 
    - Warehouse/Park land 
    - Gridded residential quarters 
    - Connected residential neighbourhoods 
    - Dense residential neighbourhoods 
    - Dense urban neighbourhoods 
    - Local urbanity 
    - Regional urbanity 
    - Metropolitan urbanity 
    - Concentrated urbanity 
    - Hyper concentrated urbanity 

LICENSE: OGL 

INTERACTIVE MAP: https://urbangrammarai.xyz/great-britain/ 

FOR QUERIES CONTACT m.fleischmann@liverpool.ac.uk / d.arribas-bel@liverpool.ac.uk