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typologies — Traditional neighborhood composite

Urban typesswedenregional
Kvarteret Åkermyntan, Lugnet 8, Gothenburg, built 1931-1934
Kvarteret Åkermyntan, Lugnet 8, Gothenburg, built 1931-1934Thomas Höjemo · CC BY 2.5

Composition

This composite is assembled from the entries below. Each evidence record keeps its own scientific review; a separate composition review assesses why these components were selected and how they are mapped.

bldgsBrick House, Traditional Neighbourhood sweden composite
pavedAsphalt, mixed city sweden composite

Composition provenance

Curation required

Assembled · assessed by provenance-audit · 2026-08-23. Agent assessment is composition review preparation, not human verification.

Brick House, Traditional NeighbourhoodSelected component

Fills bldgs. The archetype is named 'Brick House, Traditional Neighbourhood' and declares target land_cover.bldgs, place 'sweden' and representativeness 'regional'. It declares no attaches_to, and its construction slot takes records/constructions/gothenburg--bjork2002--traditional-neighbourhood-early-1900s.

Asphalt, mixed citySelected component

Fills paved. The archetype is named 'Asphalt, mixed city' and declares target land_cover.paved, place 'sweden' and representativeness 'regional'. It declares no attaches_to.

Assessment findings

Composite identitycuration required
The composite is named 'Traditional neighborhood' and described as 'Traditional neighborhood (Stone houses)'. The bldgs slot takes archetypes/surfaces/bldgs/sweden--brick-house-traditional-neighbourhood, named 'Brick House, Traditional Neighbourhood', whose construction is records/constructions/gothenburg--bjork2002--traditional-neighbourhood-early-1900s, named 'Archived UMEP 4.4.3 Traditional Neighbourhood construction'. The description therefore says stone while the component it selects says brick, and this database keeps the two apart: archetypes/surfaces/bldgs/sweden--stone-houses-traditional-neighbourhood exists separately, is named 'Stone Houses, Traditional Neighbourhood', rests on records/constructions/gothenburg--bjork2002--traditional-stone-neighbourhood-city-late-1800s-early-1900s, and is the bldgs component of archetypes/typologies/sweden--traditional-stone-house-neighbourhood. Either the description names a wall material this composite does not assemble, or the wrong building archetype fills the slot. Nothing in the repository decides which, and the two fixes are not equivalent, so a maintainer must settle it.
Composite targetsupported
The composite's own target is 'typology', which is what every entry under archetypes/typologies declares, 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. Neither component declares attaches_to; in this database that field is carried only by the profile records under db/records/profiles, so slot fit here is judged on the components' declared target.
Own parameter valuesnot applicable
The composite declares no parameters block of its own, so it asserts no value beyond the two components it selects.
Composition rationalenot applicable
The composite claims no composition source, and the repository records no published rationale for this pairing. The components' own sources belong to their assessments, not to this review.
Place applicabilitysupported
The composite claims place 'sweden' and both components declare place 'sweden', so the typology is assembled entirely from Swedish rows. The claim survives a level down as well: the bldgs component's construction, records/constructions/gothenburg--bjork2002--traditional-neighbourhood-early-1900s, declares place 'gothenburg', which db/places.yml resolves to country 'sweden'.
Representativenesssupported
The composite declares representativeness 'regional' and both components declare 'regional', so nothing here stretches a narrower class to cover a country-scale typology. Four of the seven Swedish typologies are assembled this way; the other three (archetypes/typologies/sweden--industrial, archetypes/typologies/sweden--sub-urban and archetypes/typologies/sweden--traditional-stone-house-neighbourhood) reach into Helsinki city surfaces for their paved slot.
Slot and season mappingsupported
An assembly of two existing surface archetypes into the two slots the typology format defines; the composite produces no value of its own. A typology carries no season and no wet/dry mapping of its own, because those live inside the surface components' ohm blocks, so there is no seasonal mapping to check at this level.
Completeness and uniquenesssupported
The assembly is complete: scripts/migrate_to_records.py maps only the legacy Types table's 'Buildings' and 'Paved' columns into a typology's uses block, and both slots are filled. The bldgs component is used by no other typology. The paved component is the Swedish set's common surface, shared with archetypes/typologies/sweden--mixed-city-ideal, archetypes/typologies/sweden--modernism and archetypes/typologies/sweden--residential-functionalism, which is reuse rather than duplication. The nearest composite is archetypes/typologies/sweden--traditional-stone-house-neighbourhood, which shares this one's place 'sweden', representativeness 'regional', profile_type 'Residential' and period 'Pre80' and also describes a traditional neighbourhood, but selects different components in both slots and carries a distinct legacy_id (12251392 against 12240002 here). The two are separate entries whose descriptions overlap more than their contents do, which is the subject of the name finding rather than a duplication.

Scientific note

On place and reach this is the cleanest of the Swedish typologies: both components declare place 'sweden' and representativeness 'regional', so a Swedish country-scale typology is assembled entirely from Swedish country-scale surfaces, and the paved component is the same one three sibling Swedish typologies use. The problem is what the entry says it assembles. Its description reads 'Traditional neighborhood (Stone houses)', but the building archetype it selects is named 'Brick House, Traditional Neighbourhood' and rests on a construction named 'Archived UMEP 4.4.3 Traditional Neighbourhood construction'. The database is not indifferent to that distinction: it holds a separate archetypes/surfaces/bldgs/sweden--stone-houses-traditional-neighbourhood with its own stone construction, and a separate typology, archetypes/typologies/sweden--traditional-stone-house-neighbourhood, that uses it. So either this composite's description belongs to that other typology and should be corrected here, or the bldgs slot is filled by the wrong archetype and the two Swedish traditional-neighbourhood entries are crossed. The evidence in the repository does not distinguish those two readings, and they have different consequences for anyone selecting this typology, so a maintainer should settle it. Nothing here turns on a component's values, which remain subject to their own assessments.

Model-ready fragment

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: 0.92
    ref:
      ID: kotthaus2014
      DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2014.05.005
      desc: london, site
  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

Composition review

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Composite metadata

Placesweden
Scoperegional
Targettypology
Origin“Sweden” (verbatim legacy string)
Schema2026.5 · legacy row 12240002
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