Generally referred to as “urban task”, the urban envelope is defined as the area delimiting a set of parcels built on a given date. This urban envelope is a spatial reference for locating a boundary of construction according to different design criteria. These criteria can be adapted according to the definition assigned to this urban envelope (artificialisation, habitat area, area of activity, etc.).
The urban envelope serves as a reference point to contribute to the assessment of space consumption in urban planning documents.
Some specific features of the spatial distribution of built-up areas are observed in more detail. These differences can be attributed to the land structure of agricultural areas (cultural typology, parcel geometry, cultural methods of setting up farms, etc.), to land-based urbanisation patterns depending on the territory or, on the contrary, to more intensified forms of this residential development (e.g. regulatory aspect of urban planning documents).
This is a data to characterise the urban envelope of dwellings (house, apartment).
This envelope was generated from the parcels identified in the land files as bearing at least one dwelling space and having a habitat rather than activity purpose
This data also specifies the number of parcels that make up each urban envelope. This allows, by simple processing, to select only the corresponding urban envelopes, those consisting of at least four units.
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