Mohhamad Hossein Badarlo - Member of Islamic City Council of Robatkarim

This paper is concerned with a methodology that is able to recognize and classify geometric shapes, in particular urban shapes. The main objective of this study is to develop a shape index that will address Whyte’scategory of ‘spatial form (1 968), that is, the external appearance or outward form, in contrast with the ‘internal form, which is the structural form. We first review methodologies of shape recognition andclassification. Next, we propose a viable formulation for such an endeavor by drawing from the aforementioned methodologies, and we aim to overcome some of their limitations by formulating a new index. We will applythe resulting shape index to an illustrative case in order to recognize urban shapes.

Urban Shapes, urban planning, Transport system, Borujerd City