Urban morphological zones 2006

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Created 15 Mar 2011 Published 15 Mar 2011 Last modified 04 Nov 2015

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Urban morphological zones 2006

F3v0 - Urban morphological zones (UMZ) are defined by Corine land cover classes considered to contribute to the urban tissue and function

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Vector data

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The attributes available for each UMZ dataset are the following ones:

UMZ2006
o UMZ06_ID: Unique identifier of each UMZ00
o Area_ha: Area in hectares

UMZ06 vs Commune06
o UMZ06_ID: Unique identifier of each UMZ06
o Euroboundary attributes: Commune_ID, Commune name, Country Code and NUTS Code

UMZ2006_f3v0_vector.zip (ZIP archive)
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Raster 100m and 250m

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Additional information

Urban morphological zones - Methodology

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INSPIRE compliant metadata set

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Metadata

Temporal coverage:

2006

Last upload:

15 Mar 2011

Geographic coverage:

Albania , Austria , Belgium , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Croatia , Cyprus , Czech Republic , Denmark , Estonia , Finland , France , Germany , Hungary , Iceland , Ireland , Italy , Latvia , Lithuania , Macedonia (FYR) , Montenegro , Netherlands , Norway , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Serbia , Slovakia , Slovenia , Spain , Sweden , Turkey

Tags:

urban , raster data , umz , vector data , eea owned data sets , geospatial data , population

Scale of the data set:

1:100000

Rights:

EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Methodology:

Procedural steps

1. Reclassification of Corine Land Cover (CLC2006) for UMZ2006. CLC is reclassified according to the classes described above.

2. Ports, airports, sport facilities, roads, railways, rivers and forest and scrub classes fully within the urban area were added to the classes.

3. The UMZ's were built up using a expansion/shrinking method.

4. The population numbers were calculated on basis of JRC's 2001 Population grid.

Finally the population numbers and attributes (Commune codes) were assigned to the UMZ's

For more detail please refer to the provided methodology documentation.

Coordinate reference system:

EPSG:3035

Data sources

CLC2006 version 13, JRC’s 2001 Population density grid

Owners:

European Environment Agency (EEA)

Processors:

The European Topic Centre on Land Use and Spatial Information

Additional information

An Urban Morphological Zone can be defined as “A set of urban areas laying less than 200m apart”.
Those urban areas are defined from land cover classes contributing to the urban tissue and function.
The Corine Land Cover classes used to build the Urban Morphological Zone dataset are the following ones:
Core Classes
111 – Continuous urban fabric
112 – Discontinuous urban fabric
121 – Industrial or commercial units
141 – Green urban areas
Enlarged core classes: 123 (Port areas), 124 (Airports) and 142 (Sport and leisure facilities), are also considered if they are neighbours to the core classes or to one of them touching the core classes.
122 (Road and rail networks) and 511 (Water courses), when neighbours to the enlarged core classes, cut by 300m buffer.
Forests & scrub (311,312,313,322,323,324), when they are completely within the core classes.

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Figures produced

City limits considered in the Air Implementation Pilot of Antwerp, Berlin, Dublin, Madrid, Malmö, Milan, Paris, Ploiesti, Plovdiv, Prague, Vienna and Vilnius and air quality zones (for PM10, 2010 and 2011) in which they are included 12 European Cities participating in the Air Implementation Pilot depicting the Air Quality zones and the Urban Audit core city limits. The intention is to show the match between AQ zones and the Urban Audit city limits.

Percentage of the urban area that would be flooded — share of cities per class per country The diagram shows the proportion of cities per country that fall in a particular class regarding the percentage of potentially flooded area.

Percentage of the city that would be flooded in case rivers rise one metre Percentage of the city that would be flooded in case water in rivers rises 1 m (only cities > 100 000 hab). The city is defined by its biophysical delineation (Urban Morphological Zone) inside the core city boundaries (Urban Audit). The background shows the relative change in 100-year return level of river discharge. Neither coastal floods nor flood protection measures are considered in the calculations.

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