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URMOPRO: An Example of an Urban Ontology for the Formalization of Morphological Processes

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Ontologies in Urban Development Projects

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The urban morphological processes ontology (URMOPRO) has been developed to find an intermediate level of abstraction between the quantitative measures and the conceptual frameworks needed to understand the observable changes in the cityscape (i.e. morphological processes). The domain of application of this ontology is urban morphology research.

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Camacho-Hübner, E. (2011). URMOPRO: An Example of an Urban Ontology for the Formalization of Morphological Processes. In: Ontologies in Urban Development Projects. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing, vol 1. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-724-2_12

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