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urban patterns, the recurring configurations or arrangements of urban elements (Marshall, 2004), to reduce complexity and summarise the characters of the urban form.

pattern language represents a set of guidelines or solutions for reoccurring design problems derived from historic and contemporary urban environments.

urban landscape as a series of patterns of different urban elements at varying scales

The urban pattern language conceptual framework is built upon two fundamental hypotheses

firstly, that distinct patterns of different urban elements exist at various scales are not arbitrary but follow specific rules,

and secondly, the rule or relationship between the diverse patterns is unique with potential as a reflection to the cities' particular background and needs.

it is important to identify the scales of these patterns, whether the focus is on an overarching city blueprint or the intricate design of a specific neighbourhood

The language could be interpreted as the rule or the relationship between the patterns coming together to form the solution.

Note: This is an interesting way of summarizing the information on metrics across scales and the two cities.

The quest to correlate urban form with emergent dynamic data has taken centre stage over the past decade.

[Note: Good set of references of papers linking urban form with other phenomena to follow.]