An Overview of the Quantitative Analysis Methods in Urban Design

As the research objects of urban design are often imaginable but indescribable, the quantitative analysis methods in urban design are relatively scarce. But the quantitative analysis plays an important role in giving a good insight into the objects of urban design, improving its scientificity and practicability, so there are still a large number of scholars working in this area. In recent years, scholars have made more and more achievements in quantitative analysis of urban design. In order to promote the research in this field, based on the literature research method, this paper summarizes the main research perspectives and the latest domestic and international research results in urban design quantitative analysis from six dimensions: visual dimension, perceptual dimension, social dimension, functional dimension, morphological dimension, and temporal dimension, and sums up about 60 kinds of indices and 40 kinds of quantitative methods, which shows that the research content is becoming more comprehensive, perspective is becoming more diverse. Combining with the current research hot spots and the new technical means, this paper makes a prospect of the quantitative analysis in urban design.