Martin Fleischmann MSc. Ph.D.

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Na Slupi 17

martin.fleischmann@natur.cuni.cz

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Charles University, Faculty of Science
Department of Social Geography and Regional Development
Urban and Regional Laboratory – URRlab

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Martin is a member the Urban and Regional Laboratory at the Charles University in Prague, a fellow in the Geographic Data Science Lab at the University of Liverpool and a former member of the Urban Design Studies Unit at the University of Strathclyde. He has a PhD in Architecture from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, where he focused on urban morphology and quantitative aspects characterisation of urban form. He holds degrees in Urban Design (University of Strathclyde, 2017) and Architecture and Urbanism (Czech Technical University in Prague, 2015).

While not doing the research, he writes open source software, promotes open science and helps others with their data.

His research interest lies in urban morphology and geographic data science focusing on quantitative analysis and classification of urban form, remote sensing and AI, bringing the architectural aspects of the description of cities to geography and data science.

Martin an author or a maintainer of a range of open scientific software. He developed momepy, the open source urban morphology measuring toolkit for Python providing a wide range of tools for morphometric analysis. Since 2019, Martin is a member of the development team of GeoPandas, the open source Python package for geographic data. In 2020, he joined the development team of PySAL, the Python library for spatial analysis. On top of that, he regularly contributes to other open source projects and develops his own packages like Clustergram for visualisation of cluster analysis or Xvec for vector data cubes handling.

See more at martinfleischmann.net.
Web of Science and Scopus

Wang, J., Fleischmann, M., Venerandi, A., Romice, O., Kuffer, M., and Porta, S. ‘EO + Morphometrics: Understanding cities through urban morphology at large scale’ Landscape and Urban Planning, 233. doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104691

Rowe, F., Calafiore, A., Arribas-Bel, D., Samardzhiev, K., and Fleischmann, M. ‘Urban exodus? Understanding human mobility in Britain during the COVID-19 pandemic using Meta-Facebook data’ Population, Space and Place, e2637. doi:10.1002/psp.2637

Arribas-Bel, D. and Fleischmann, M. ‘Spatial Signatures: Understanding (urban) spaces through form and function’ Habitat International, 128, (102641). doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2022.102641

Fleischmann, M. and Arribas-Bel, D. ‘Geographical characterisation of British urban form and function using the spatial signatures framework’ Scientific Data, 9, (546). doi:10.1038/s41597-022-01640-8

Venerandi, A., Feliciotti, A. ,Fleischmann, M., Kourtit, K., Porta, S.‘Urban form character and Airbnb in Amsterdam N L: A morphometric approach’ Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science. doi:10.1177/23998083221115196

Samardzhiev, K., Fleischmann, M., Arribas-Bel, D., Calafiore, A., Rowe, F. ‘Functional Signatures in Great Britain: A dataset.’ Data in Brief, 108335, doi:10.1016/j.dib.2022.108335

Singleton, A., Arribas-Bel, D., Murray, J., and Fleischmann, M. ‘Estimating generalized measures of local neighbourhood context from multispectral satellite images using a convolutional neural network.’ Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 95, 101802. doi:10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2022.101802

Fleischmann, M., Feliciotti, A., Romice, O. and Porta, S. ‘Methodological Foundation of a Numerical Taxonomy of Urban Form.’ Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 49 (4), 1283-1299. doi:10.1177/23998083211059835

Fleischmann, M., Feliciotti, A. and Kerr, W. ‘Evolution of urban patterns: urban morphology as an open reproducible data science.’ Geographical Analysis 54 (3). doi:10.1111/gean.12302

Dal Cin, F., Fleischmann, M., Romice, O. and Costa, J.P. ‘Climate Adaptation Plans in the Context of Coastal Settlements: The Case of Portugal.’ Sustainability 12 (20). doi:10.3390/su12208559

Fleischmann, M., Romice, O. and Porta, S. ‘Measuring urban form: overcoming terminological inconsistencies for a quantitative and comprehensive morphologic analysis of cities.’ Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 48 (8), 2133-2150. doi:10.1177/2399808320910444

Fleischmann, M., Feliciotti, A., Romice, O. and Porta, S. ‘Morphological tessellation as a way of partitioning space: Improving consistency in urban morphology at the plot scale’ Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 80, 101441. doi:10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2019.101441

Expert articles

Fleischmann, M. ‘momepy: Urban Morphology Measuring Toolkit’ Journal of Open Source Software 4 (43), 1807. doi:10.21105/joss.01807
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