Optimization Research Of Urban Space Configuration Based On Space Syntax

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qing Zhu ◽  
Jingwen Wang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Space Syntax

Space Syntax Approach for Articulating Space and Social Life

2019 ◽  
pp. 223-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdelbaseer A. Mohamed
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Spatial Configuration ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Urban Models ◽  
Spatial Measures ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This chapter sets out to provide a detailed description of the relationship between space and society. It begins by discussing how people co-live in spaces and how such spaces co-live as communities. Understanding the relationship between space and society requires shedding light on how (1) communities emerge and work and (2) people build their social network. The chapter's main premise is that spatial configuration is the container of activities and the way we construct our cities influences our social life. Therefore, the urban environment should be analyzed mathematically using urban models in order to evaluate and predict future urban policies. The chapter reviews a space-people paradigm, Space Syntax. It defines, elaborates, and interprets its main concepts and tools, showing how urban space is modelled and described in terms of various spatial measures including connectivity, integration, depth, choice, and isovist properties.

scholarly journals Exploring Challenges in Space Syntax Theory Building: The Use of Positivist and Hermeneutic Explanatory Models

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (17) ◽  
pp. 7133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akkelies van Nes ◽  
Claudia Yamu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Critical Realism ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Explanatory Models ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Market Rationality ◽  
High Degree

The planning and building of sustainable cities and communities yields operational theories on urban space. The novelty of this paper is that it discusses and explores the challenges for space syntax theory building within two key research traditions: positivism and hermeneutics. Applying a theory of science perspective, we first discuss the explanatory power of space syntax and its applications. Next, we distinguish between theories that attempt to explain a phenomenon and theories that seek to understand it, based on Von Wright’s modal logics and Bhaskar’s critical realism models. We demonstrate that space syntax research that focuses on spatial configurative changes in built environments, movement and economic activities can explain changes in a built environment in terms of cause and effect (positivism), whereas historical research or research focusing on social rationality, space and crime or cognition seeks to develop an understanding of the inherent cultural meaning of the space under investigation (hermeneutics). Evidently, the effect of human intentions and behaviour on spatial structures depends on the type of rationality underlying these intentions, which is the focus of this study. Positivist explanatory models are appropriate for examining market rationality in cases that entail unambiguous intentionality and that are associated with a high degree of predictability. By contrast, other kinds of reasoning require a hermeneutic understanding.

scholarly journals 3D Space Syntax Analysis: Attributes to be Applied in Landscape Architecture Projects

Urban Science ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
António Ascensão ◽  
Laura Costa ◽  
Cláudia Fernandes ◽  
Franklim Morais ◽  
Catarina Ruivo
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Growth Speed ◽  
Syntax Analysis ◽  
3D Space ◽  
Final Design ◽  
3D Software ◽  
Space Syntax Analysis

The article delves into the potential application of space syntax methodology to landscape architecture. Anticipating the complexity of the landscape architectural design process, the use of 3D space syntax analysis made it possible to better understand the relations between urban space shapes and their functions. The application of an iterative process of project improvement optimizes the fulfilment of the landscape architect vision, through changes in ground shaping, selection of tree species and their spatial distribution. This article explores the vegetation attributes of vegetation that are necessary to consider in landscape architecture projects in the context of the DepthSpace 3D software, using the case study of an urban park in Maia—Portugal. To achieve this, it was necessary to define the attributes to be inserted in the software. The main attributes of vegetation that can be employed in landscape architecture projects are form and dimension, growth speed, and visual permeability (opacity) of the crown in winter and summer. The software proved itself a useful tool, not only in studying and evaluating the effects of the final design, but also during project development.

scholarly journals Space Syntax in communication structure of Lublin

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-211
Author(s):  
Wojciech Kocki ◽  
Bartłomiej Kwiatkowski
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Communication Structure ◽  
Urban Structures ◽  
The City ◽  
Research Tools

Urban structures of the cities are one of the most complicated structures inthe whole world. It depends on many factors, that continuously change and develop them.Among many research tools which can be helpful in understanding urban structure designing,there is a Space Syntax method. This method of analyzing grid structures provides a lot of information about connectivity and integration of urban space as a research area. This method was used to perform an analysis of the urban tissue of the city of Lublin. Conclusions resulting from those analysis help identify weaknesses and problematic areas on urbanlayout of Lublin, especially related to integration and connectivity of streets and may be used as a basis for further research.

scholarly journals Shaping ideal cities: The graph representation of the urban utopia

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 423-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto D’Autilia ◽  
Marco Spada
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Line Graph ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Graph Representation ◽  
Syntax Analysis ◽  
Urban Function ◽  
Space Syntax Analysis ◽  
Urban Utopia ◽  
Historic Cities ◽  
The Ideal

The ideal Renaissance city is designed as a star-shaped fortress, where the streets and squares are organized to speed the movement of people and soldiers. Symmetry and accessibility represent the key features for the organization of the urban space. The resulting city is hierarchized and does not always guarantee an optimal degree of connectivity. Starting from the space syntax definition, we suggest a method to compute urban graphs from the Euclidean representation, the corresponding line graph and the contraction of nodes with the same urban function. We analyze the urban graphs of five historic cities and compare the analysis with the corresponding results from space syntax. Analysis of the spectral gap and the relative asymmetry distribution show a similar structure for these cities. The irregular or reticular housing structure seems to ensure connectivity and accessibility more than the regular grids. However, connectivity is ensured by the most peripheral streets, which in the space syntax representation play a marginal role.

scholarly journals Research on the Optimization Strategy of Shopping Mall Spatial Layout in Hefei Based on Space Syntax Theory

Complexity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Qinghua Zhou ◽  
Ziqi Liu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Spatial Layout ◽  
Shopping Mall ◽  
Shopping Center ◽  
Internal Space ◽  
Shopping Centers ◽  
Optimization Strategy ◽  
Shopping Malls ◽  
Important Place

Shopping malls are an indispensable part of urban space and an important place for people to spend and socialize, with its internal space being the focus of shopping mall design. This paper studies the internal space of shopping malls using space syntax theory, quantitatively analyzes the three components of the spatial layout of Hefei shopping centers from a rational perspective, and explores the optimization of the spatial combination, node space configuration, and business layout of Hefei shopping centers in order to guide and optimize the internal space of the existing shopping center and provide a certain reference for the future internal space design of the shopping center.

Space Syntax Beyond Cairo Street Markets

2019 ◽  
pp. 250-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amany Ramadan Arisha ◽  
Nancy Mostafa Abd El-Moneim
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Street Vending ◽  
The Public ◽  
Urban Markets ◽  
Urban Issues

Street vending is a growing controversial phenomenon in urban environments. It is a survival strategy and an economic opportunity for countless numbers of marginalized vendors. However, the temporal presence of vendors is portrayed as the source of substantial urban issues, which detract from the quality of the urban public space and the public life of individuals. This chapter aims to propose a practical approach to understand the impact of vendors' temporal presence on the quality of urban space and social life. By space syntax theory, this study utilizes pragmatic methods in the fields of social and human sciences; to analyze the socio-spatial and temporal attributes of the vending phenomenon in relation to urban users' movement in a case study street market at Cairo. The findings introduce a syntactic methodology that highlights the profound relationship between users and informal urban markets to be applied in diverse contexts.

scholarly journals Prevention of Disasters Related to Extreme Natural Ground Deformation Events by Applying Spatial Modeling in Urban Areas (Quito, Ecuador)

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 753
Author(s):  
Marcelo Cando-Jácome ◽  
Antonio Martínez-Graña ◽  
Virginia Valdés
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Ground Deformation ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Spatial Behavior ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Radar Images ◽  
Joint Application ◽  
New Vision

Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (InSAR) is a spatial technique based on obtaining the phase differences of two radar images, acquired by a satellite from separate orbits and at different times, to obtain a ground displacement image of a study area, This image is called interferogram. On the other hand, space syntax is a technique within architecture that is applied to quantify and describe the level of ease of population movement through any urban space in a city. It analyzes the flow, transit, displacement, accessibility and concentration of the population in areas of basic services, health, security, commerce and entertainment. What would happen if an earthquake greater than 6 or 7 Moment Magnitude-Mw occurs in these areas of intense concentration of the population that are in buildings constructed on intense deformations of the land? With respect to the seismic risk in the city of Quito, many studies related to seismic risks have been published, but there are no studies that relate the deformation of the land (INSAR) with the space syntax, so this article presents a new vision in the joint application of these tools, a useful vision for urban planners and designers, considering the occurrence of a major earthquake in areas of buildings that are located on intense land deformations and have high population concentrations. This study has been prepared in two phases: in the first phase, the built-up areas concentrated in the greatest terrain deformations by accumulated displacement obtained using the APS estimation & multitemporal analysis by PSI-InSAR time series analysis methodology and Sentinel 1A and 1B satellite images were categorized. In the second phase, through the space syntax’s theory and the use of DepthmapX, the movement patterns and traffic flows of the population were determined by means of graphs of spaces interconnected by streets (axial maps), to predict the spatial behavior of humans and its concentration in the mentioned sites. Finally, the results were integrated, determining the degree of exposure of the population found in built areas with high to very high displacement and an intense population concentration.

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