Machine learning for buildings’ characterization and power-law recovery of urban metrics

Alaa Krayem, Aram Yeretzian, Ghaleb Faour and Sara Najem

PLOS ONE, 2021, vol. 16, issue 1, 1-13

Abstract: In this paper we focus on a critical component of the city: its building stock, which holds much of its socio-economic activities. In our case, the lack of a comprehensive database about their features and its limitation to a surveyed subset lead us to adopt data-driven techniques to extend our knowledge to the near-city-scale. Neural networks and random forests are applied to identify the buildings’ number of floors and construction periods’ dependencies on a set of shape features: area, perimeter, and height along with the annual electricity consumption, relying a surveyed data in the city of Beirut. The predicted results are then compared with established scaling laws of urban forms, which constitutes a further consistency check and validation of our workflow.

Date: 2021
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