Due to their essential role in forming good quality urban life, urban structures need to be comprehensively understood. The use of quantitative methods and measures to analyze the urban fabric metrics is crucial to understand the physical and spatial properties at multiple scales. This research aims to study the structures of urban blocks by using computational and metric methods. Three essential variables of urban blocks - perimeter, size, and dimension - are selected to measure the blocks’ features and differences formed in Baghdad, Iraq. The analysis used various statistical methods combined with computation techniques and a geographical information system (GIS) to measure and compare the correlations between the block properties of four selected urban areas. The results revealed a differentiation among the geometric potentials found in urban block structures; moreover, this helped to provide a precise basis and principal guidelines for urban design models and planning practices. The research concluded that a better understanding of the block’s role in urban fabric helps to improve the formation and transformation processes within the built environment.

由于它们在形成优质城市生活方面的重要作用，需要全面了解城市结构。使用定量方法和措施来分析城市结构指标对于了解多个尺度的物理和空间特性至关重要。本研究旨在通过使用计算和度量方法研究城市街区的结构。选择城市街区的三个基本变量——周长、大小和维度——来衡量伊拉克巴格达街区的特征和差异。该分析使用各种统计方法结合计算技术和地理信息系统 (GIS) 来衡量和比较四个选定城市区域的街区属性之间的相关性。结果揭示了在城市街区​​结构中发现的几何势之间的差异；此外，这有助于为城市设计模型和规划实践提供准确的基础和主要指导方针。研究得出的结论是，更好地了解街区在城市结构中的作用有助于改善建筑环境中的形成和转变过程。