EEA geospatial data catalogue
Urban Morphological Zones 2000 (vector) - version 16, Jun. 2013
An urban morphological zone (UMZ) is defined as a "set of urban areas laying less than 200 m apart". This layer contains UMZ delineations for Europe, based on Corine Land Cover database. During 2012, the UMZ methodology was updated in order to correct errors derived for the water course as join elements between urban areas. Previous version applied over CLC v15 (and previous version) joined many small urban areas due to the water presence. This fact was erroneous from the landscape and urban perspective as most of those areas remain as urban-rural typologies. Moreover, water courses cannot be considered as roads from the urban morphological view (either from the commuting point of understanding). This new version, known as v16, corrected this effect in the majority of cases.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2013-06-28
- Edition
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16.00
- Citation identifier
- eea_v_3035_100_k_umz-2000_p_2013_v16_r00
- Citation identifier
- DAT-89-en
- Point of contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Custodian European Environment Agency
Point of contact
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 100000
- Topic category
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- Planning cadastre
- Society
Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2000-01-01 2000-12-31
Extent
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Place
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EEA33 (2013-2020)
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Albania
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Bosnia and Herzegovina
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North Macedonia
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Montenegro
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San Marino
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Serbia
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- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Land cover
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- GEMET
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urban environment, urban stress
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social aspects, population
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economy
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household
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environmental report
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- EEA Management Plan
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2014 1.8.3
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- EEA topics
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Buildings and construction
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Environmental health impacts
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Water
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Land use
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Urban sustainability
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Resource constraints
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Report
Result
- Title
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
Resource lineage
- Statement
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An Urban Morphological Zone can be defined as “A set of urban areas laying less than
200m apart”. Those urban areas are defined from land cover classes contributing to the urban tissue and function.
The Corine Land Cover classes (Figure 1) used to build the Urban Morphological Zone dataset are the following ones:
• Core Classes
o 111 – Continuous urban fabric
o 112 – Discontinuous urban fabric
o 121 – Industrial or commercial units
o 141 – Green urban areas
• Enlarged core classes, CLC Classes 123 (Port areas), 124 (Airports) and 142 (Sport and leisure facilities), are also considered if they are neighbours to the core classes or to one of them touching the core classes.
• Road and rail networks, CLC class 122 when neighbours to the enlarged core classes, roads and rails will be included (cut by 300m buffer) as part of the UMZ due to their artificial nature and connectivity properties.
• Water courses, CLC class 511, when neighbours to the enlarged core classes and acting as a link between them, they are selected by this fact.
• Forests & scrub, CLC classes 311,312,313,322,323,324, when they are completely within the core classes.
The complete methodology is described in the document RpD_UMZ_Methodology_f3.0.pdf which is stored in the same folder as the dataset.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:3035
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 02e6f47d-231e-4c52-aecd-d683b53cf745
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/02e6f47d-231e-4c52-aecd-d683b53cf745
- Date info (Creation)
- 2014-03-21T15:08:46Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T10:34:23.371055Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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