No photograph yet. This kind of neighbourhood is easier to recognise than to describe, and a picture would tell a reader more about “Sub-urban” than the parameters below can.
Offer a photographWe can only publish one if it names its photographer and its licence — public domain, CC0, or a Creative Commons licence. A photograph with no stated terms cannot be shown, however well it fits.
| bldgs | Kumpula helsinki composite |
|---|---|
| paved | Kumpula helsinki composite |
Fills bldgs. The archetype is named Kumpula, declares target land_cover.bldgs, place helsinki and representativeness city.
Fills paved. The archetype is named Kumpula, declares target land_cover.paved, place helsinki and representativeness city.
| Composite identity | supported The composite is named Sub-urban and described 'Helsinki (sub-urban, mixed)', and both components are the archetypes named Kumpula carrying place helsinki, so the label identifies what is assembled. One envelope field does not fit that reading: profile_type reads 'Industrial' on an entry named 'Sub-urban' and described as mixed suburban. profile_type is descriptive metadata migrated verbatim from the legacy Types table, it selects no component and sits outside the uses block, so it changes nothing this review covers, but it contradicts both the name and the description and is worth settling when the typology metadata is next revisited. |
|---|---|
| Composite target | supported The composite's own target is typology, and each slot takes a component declared for it: the bldgs slot takes an archetype declaring target land_cover.bldgs and the paved slot an archetype declaring target land_cover.paved. No archetype in this database declares attaches_to, which is carried only by the 477 records under records/profiles, so slot fit here is judged on the components' declared target. |
| Own parameter values | not applicable The composite declares no parameters block of its own, so it asserts no value beyond the two archetypes it selects. |
| Composition rationale | not applicable The composite claims no composition source, and the repository records no published rationale for pairing these two archetypes. The components' own selections belong to their composition assessments, not to this review. |
| Place applicability | supported The composite claims place finland, and both components declare place helsinki, which db/places.yml resolves to country finland. Nothing is imported from outside the country the composite claims, and Kumpula is the Helsinki neighbourhood the description names. |
| Representativeness | curation required The composite declares representativeness regional while both components declare city, so one neighbourhood of one city stands for a national suburban typology. The database holds no Finnish building or paved archetype classed regional, so the substitution was not avoidable, but the national reach is the composite's own claim and nothing records the decision to make it. The same city-under-regional pattern holds for every typology whose components come from a named city, so a maintainer should settle it once across the typology set rather than entry by entry. |
| Slot and season mapping | supported An assembly of two existing archetypes into two slots; the composite produces no value of its own. A typology carries no seasonal or wet/dry axis, because the four OHM positions live inside the surface archetypes, so the only mapping made here is one archetype per slot and each slot receives exactly one. |
| Completeness and uniqueness | supported A typology has two component slots and no others: the migration maps the legacy Types table's Buildings and Paved columns into bldgs and paved and nothing else (scripts/migrate_to_records.py), and all fourteen entries under archetypes/typologies fill exactly those two. This composite fills both, so the assembly is complete. Its pair of components is unique: archetypes/surfaces/bldgs/helsinki--kumpula is selected by no other typology, and archetypes/surfaces/paved/helsinki--kumpula, though it is also taken by archetypes/typologies/sweden--industrial and archetypes/typologies/sweden--sub-urban, is paired with a different building archetype in both. The name Sub-urban is shared with archetypes/typologies/sweden--sub-urban and archetypes/typologies/uk--sub-urban, so the path, the place and the components separate the three. |
Finland's sub-urban typology takes the building and paved archetypes of a single Helsinki neighbourhood, Kumpula, which is exactly what its description names, and pairs them without reaching outside Finland or outside the targets the two slots need. Both of the two slots a typology has are filled and the pair appears in no other entry. Two things sit above the components. The composite declares representativeness regional against city components, so one neighbourhood stands for a national suburban typology; nothing better was available, since the database holds no Finnish building or paved archetype classed regional, so this is an unrecorded decision rather than a wrong selection, and it is the same decision every city-based typology embeds. And the legacy profile_type field reads 'Industrial' on an entry named 'Sub-urban' and described as mixed suburban; it selects nothing, but the contradiction is in the stored data and a maintainer should decide which of the two readings the entry means. The components' own compositions and values remain subject to their own assessments; this review does not revisit them.
Paste under typology in a SUEWS YAML configuration; every value carries its citation.
bldgs:
alb:
value: 0.12
ref:
ID: ward2016
DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2016.05.001
desc: london, site, land_cover
emis:
value: 0.95
ref:
ID: jarvi2011
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001
desc: generic, generic, land_cover
storage_drain_params:
store_min:
value: 0.25
ref:
ID: jarvi2011
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001
desc: generic, generic, land_cover
store_max:
value: 0.25
ref:
ID: jarvi2011
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001
desc: generic, generic, land_cover
drain_eq:
value: 3
ref:
ID: jarvi2011
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001
desc: generic, generic, land_cover
drain_coef_1:
value: 10
ref:
ID: jarvi2011
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001
desc: generic, generic, land_cover
drain_coef_2:
value: 3
ref:
ID: jarvi2011
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001
desc: generic, generic, land_cover
wet_threshold:
value: 0.25
ref:
ID: jarvi2011
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001
desc: generic, generic, land_cover
snowpack_limit:
value: 190
ref:
ID: jarvi2014
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-7-1691-2014
desc: generic, generic, land_cover
ohm_coef:
summer_wet:
a1:
value: 0.19
ref:
ID: unreferenced
DOI: null
desc: helsinki, city, facet
a2:
value: 0.54
ref:
ID: unreferenced
DOI: null
desc: helsinki, city, facet
a3:
value: -15.125
ref:
ID: unreferenced
DOI: null
desc: helsinki, city, facet
summer_dry:
a1:
value: 0.19
ref:
ID: unreferenced
DOI: null
desc: helsinki, city, facet
a2:
value: 0.54
ref:
ID: unreferenced
DOI: null
desc: helsinki, city, facet
a3:
value: -15.125
ref:
ID: unreferenced
DOI: null
desc: helsinki, city, facet
winter_wet:
a1:
value: 0.19
ref:
ID: unreferenced
DOI: null
desc: helsinki, city, facet
a2:
value: 0.54
ref:
ID: unreferenced
DOI: null
desc: helsinki, city, facet
a3:
value: -15.125
ref:
ID: unreferenced
DOI: null
desc: helsinki, city, facet
winter_dry:
a1:
value: 0.19
ref:
ID: unreferenced
DOI: null
desc: helsinki, city, facet
a2:
value: 0.54
ref:
ID: unreferenced
DOI: null
desc: helsinki, city, facet
a3:
value: -15.125
ref:
ID: unreferenced
DOI: null
desc: helsinki, city, facet
paved:
alb:
value: 0.09
ref:
ID: jarvi2014
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-7-1691-2014
desc: helsinki, site
emis:
value: 0.91
ref:
ID: jarvi2011
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001
desc: generic, generic, land_cover
storage_drain_params:
store_min:
value: 0.48
ref:
ID: jarvi2011
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001
desc: generic, generic, land_cover
store_max:
value: 0.48
ref:
ID: jarvi2011
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001
desc: generic, generic, land_cover
drain_eq:
value: 3
ref:
ID: jarvi2011
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001
desc: generic, generic, land_cover
drain_coef_1:
value: 10
ref:
ID: jarvi2011
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001
desc: generic, generic, land_cover
drain_coef_2:
value: 3
ref:
ID: jarvi2011
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001
desc: generic, generic, land_cover
wet_threshold:
value: 0.48
ref:
ID: jarvi2011
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.10.001
desc: generic, generic, land_cover
snowpack_limit:
value: 190
ref:
ID: jarvi2014
DOI: 10.5194/gmd-7-1691-2014
desc: generic, generic, land_cover
ohm_coef:
summer_wet:
a1:
value: 0.719
ref:
ID: unreferenced
DOI: null
desc: land_cover
a2:
value: 0.194
ref:
ID: unreferenced
DOI: null
desc: land_cover
a3:
value: -36.6
ref:
ID: unreferenced
DOI: null
desc: land_cover
summer_dry:
a1:
value: 0.719
ref:
ID: unreferenced
DOI: null
desc: land_cover
a2:
value: 0.194
ref:
ID: unreferenced
DOI: null
desc: land_cover
a3:
value: -36.6
ref:
ID: unreferenced
DOI: null
desc: land_cover
winter_wet:
a1:
value: 0.719
ref:
ID: unreferenced
DOI: null
desc: land_cover
a2:
value: 0.194
ref:
ID: unreferenced
DOI: null
desc: land_cover
a3:
value: -36.6
ref:
ID: unreferenced
DOI: null
desc: land_cover
winter_dry:
a1:
value: 0.719
ref:
ID: unreferenced
DOI: null
desc: land_cover
a2:
value: 0.194
ref:
ID: unreferenced
DOI: null
desc: land_cover
a3:
value: -36.6
ref:
ID: unreferenced
DOI: null
desc: land_cover
typology