'urban texture' is a correct and usable term in written English.
You can use it to describe the unique visual or physical qualities of an urban area. For example, "The artist captured the urban texture of the city in the painting, depicting the streetlights, buildings, and bustling sidewalk activity."
Through a few strategic interventions, he reconfigured its urban texture, endowing it with Roman gravitas as well as creating monuments for its future tourist industry.
There's something kind of wonderful about folding supposedly highbrow music -- the programs focus on 20th-century and contemporary works -- into the urban texture.
But more, too: scattered among the halls, adding urban texture and pedestrian traffic, a collection of bookstores, art galleries, record shops and other businesses connected to the arts.
One of the many ironies of Livingstone's policy is that he and his lobbyists boast of London's commercial attraction as depending on just the conservation-based urban texture to which he is opposed.
Though the book would have been more effective with less yakking, its middle-class urban texture does have a point: Sleep, whatever else it may be, is part of culture, and we perceive it through culture.
The traditional urban texture of Diyarbakır is founded in the city walls.
Hittman films the crowded, work-worn neighborhoods of South Brooklyn with as much of an eye for sedimented attitudes as for urban textures.
These governmental efforts that took place between 1930 and 1960 not only changed the urban textures of the traditional and organic cities but also influenced the lifestyle of the urban dwellers by easing motorized travels.
The analysis that relates to 14 urban textures of Rome and Barcelona comprises seven UMIs: gross space index, floor space index, façade-to-site ratio, average building height, volume-area ratio, building aspect ratio and sky factor of building façades.
The outcomes of this research reveal that the climatic parameters are significantly influenced by the attributes of urban textures, which highlight the need for both providing the microclimatic information and using them in buildings design stages.
In Wenzel Geissler's article on two generations of Kenyan scientific fieldworkers, the author's mapping of research institutions, changing urban textures, fieldwork circulations and health workers' residential patterns reveals a progressive fragmentation of the cityscape.
