Hudson, P; (2018) Urban Characterisation; Expanding Applications for, and New Approaches to Building Attribute Data Capture. Historic Environment: Policy & Practice , 9 (3-4) pp. 306-327. 10.1080/17567505.2018.1542776.

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As cities face increasing pressure to develop long-term sustainability strategies, the need for detailed quantitative data on urban resources, and their behaviour over time, has become critical. Building stocks are a city’s largest socio-cultural and economic resource and account for around 40% of total energy consumption in developed countries. Despite ongoing problems with access to data on stock composition and dynamics, advances are now being made, particularly within sustainability science. Automated approaches to the analysis of historical building attribute data are also allowing long-term patterns of change in cities to be better understood. This is of significance to the conservation sector, and to the development of effective conservation strategies. At the same time, knowledge held by the conservation sector is of growing importance to sustainability science. This paper selects specific advances within this new research landscape, and identifies their importance in developing a more scientific, data-driven approach to the analysis of older stock. It concludes with an introduction to a new type of data collection and visualisation platform being developed for London, as a result of this review.

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