Urban fabrics

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Urban fabrics is a theory for classifying city areas based on their main traffic modes. This classification can be used to evaluate, manage, and plan urban areas. It was originally developed by Leo Kosonen and Peter Newman.

See also

• Health cities, Kuopio, June 24-26, 2015 [1]
• Theory of Urban Fabrics: Planning the Walking, Transit and Automobile City. Peter Newman, Leo Kosonen and Jeff Kenworthy. 2015
• Leo Kosonen: The three fabrics strategy in Finland. In: The Routledge handbook of planning for health and well-being. Shaping a sustainable and healthy future. Edited by Hugh Barton, Susan Thompson, Marcus Grant and Sarah Burgess.
• See the manuscripts in heande:Urban fabrics
• heande:File:Urgenche-urban zone classification method slideshow.ppt