scholarly journals Spatio-Syntactical Analysis and Historical Spatial Potentials: The Case of Jaffa–Tel Aviv

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 445-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Or Aleksandrowicz ◽  
Claudia Yamu ◽  
Akkelies van Nes
Keyword(s):  
Urban Growth ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Syntactic Analysis ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Ethnic Conflicts ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
Street Networks ◽  
Syntactical Analysis

The application of space syntax to the study of urban history—in this case, that of Tel Aviv and Jaffa (present-day Tel Aviv–Yafo)—can add a valuable, quantifiable component to the understanding of urban processes. However, it also demonstrates that historical spatio-syntactical analysis can prove misleading when interpreted separately from other types of historical evidence—for example, the ethnic conflicts that led to the formation of a strong divide between Tel Aviv and Jaffa despite their contiguous geography and interlaced street networks. A rigorous use of spatio-syntactic analysis in combination with “conventional” historical research methods can reveal the tensions and interplays between the spatio-physical and social forces that shape the life of cities, and it can invigorate our understanding of urban growth and transformationpatterns throughout history.

Wayfinding in hospital landscape: syntactical analysis of planting design in hospitals in Kerman, Iran

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Zabihi ◽  
Mina Safizadeh ◽  
Massoomeh Hedayati Marzbali
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Planting Design ◽  
Library Research ◽  
University College London ◽  
The University ◽  
Syntactical Analysis ◽  
The Way

Purpose Hospital landscape is not a useless space within hospital buildings anymore. It is considered as a supportive area providing mental and physical peace. However, the planting design of the hospital landscape and the way it should be in order to not disrupt wayfinding performance is neglected. This paper, which is a case study, aims at investigating the effects of planting design in Kerman hospitals’ landscapes on the users’ wayfinding using space syntax techniques. Design/methodology/approach This research focuses on the effects of planting design on the users’ wayfinding in hospitals. In so doing, library research, computer simulation and analysis with the University College London (UCL) Depthmap software, and comparison techniques are used. Based on axial maps, the measures of integration, connectivity and intelligibility are considered for analysing the wayfinding process of individuals. Findings The findings show that planting configurations in the hospital landscape can affect individuals’ wayfinding. Integrated and regular planting design in addition to combining planted areas with the hospital buildings can pave the way for intelligible space and easier wayfinding. Originality/value According to the authors’ knowledge, the current study is the first to use the space syntax techniques in the health-care landscape architecture in terms of planting design and wayfinding. As wayfinding is an important issue in health-care spaces, the study findings can greatly help the health-care building designers and the related organizations to pay attention to the hospital landscape as much as hospital indoors.

scholarly journals Tel Aviv: from Patrick Geddes' Utopian Social City to the International City of Late Capitalism

1995 ◽  
Author(s):  
Horacio Schwartz ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Power ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Urban Fabric ◽  
Tel Aviv ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

In contemporary society – according to Dennis Potter’s dictum – citizens have been transformed into consumers. The shift in social power behind this process is mirrored in the changing shape of the city. Tel Aviv, founded just eighty five years ago, is an extreme example of the interaction between urban conceptions and configurations and dominant social forces. By means of a schematic section through the history of the city, this paper attempts an assessment of the role of those forces and conceptions – or their absence – in determining the nature and scope of the present transformations of the urban fabric. Tel-Aviv is an assemblage of past and recent urban utopias, constrained by conditions, scaled-down and transformed, but still identifiable and influential. Partly “collision city” and partly “collage city” – in Colin Rowe’s terms – its growth, while chronologically continuous, resulted in a fragmented pattern; each district reflecting the urban ideals and historical conditions under which it came into being. Four determinant stages can be detected in the ascent of the city.

scholarly journals Effects of Urban Growth on Street Networks and Land Use in Mosul, Iraq: A Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 1667-1676
Author(s):  
Wahda Shuker Al-Hinkawi ◽  
Sarah Salh Youssef ◽  
Haneen Ali Abd
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Street Networks

scholarly journals Towards Sustainable Heritage Tourism: A Space Syntax-Based Analysis Method to Improve Tourists’ Spatial Cognition in Chinese Historic Districts

Buildings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yabing Xu ◽  
John Rollo ◽  
David S. Jones ◽  
Yolanda Esteban ◽  
Hui Tong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Cognition ◽  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Historic Districts ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Street Networks ◽  
Tourist Town ◽  
Tourism Experience ◽  
The Grand Canal ◽  
The Relationship

Historical and cultural blocks in Chinese historic districts are important components of sustainable heritage tourism. In towns along the Grand Canal, historical and cultural blocks are generally integrated with modern commerce, forming a complex space characterized by multi-elements, multi-cultures, and multi-functions. The understanding of tourists’ spatial cognition thus becomes extremely important to support heritage conservation and encourage sustainable heritage tourism. This study proposes a space syntax-based methodology to help inform heritage consultants and urban designers in understanding the tourists’ spatial cognition of canal town cultural blocks, and thereby assists designers and managers in identifying where cognitive experiences can be improved. The proposed method is applied to Nanyang, which is a canal town currently in decline in Shandong Province, and is contrasted with the ancient town of Wuzhen in Zhejiang Province, China, a highly successful tourist town. By using this proposed method, the relationship between street networks and tourists’ spatial cognition has been explored. The results of the analysis were evaluated in order to inform a range of design concepts that could enhance the sustainable heritage tourism experience of these two towns.

Acts of Commission and Acts of Omission: Legal-Historical Research and the Intentions of Government in a Federal State

1986 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 363-370
Author(s):  
Michael Howlett
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Historical Records ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Policy Conflict ◽  
Policy Alternatives ◽  
Policy Analysts ◽  
Aid Policy

AbstractInterpretation of the intentions of government in policy matters is a crucial, if normally implicit, aspect of policy analysis. Canadian policy analysts enjoy a significant advantage in having at their disposal a large body of legal-historical evidence of policy conflict between levels of government, which, if properly interpreted, can aid the process of determining the intentions of government policy. Using an example of conflicting interpretations of government intentions contained in the literature on Canadian political economy, it is argued that the use of legal-historical records can aid policy analysts by providing evidence of policy alternatives not only in the case of policy decisions, or “acts of commission,” but also in the case of nondecisions, or “acts of omission.”

scholarly journals Pathways to creating differentiated grids: Types, benefits and costs

2021 ◽  
pp. 239980832110138
Author(s):  
Chen Feng ◽  
John Peponis
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Syntax Analysis ◽  
Street Networks ◽  
Space Syntax Analysis ◽  
Benefits And Costs

The patterns of syntactic differentiation and their causes and effects are fundamental to space syntax analysis. Often, however, differentiation is taken for granted with no reference to the dynamic process that brings it about. Here, we first show that by measuring the amount of syntactic differentiation, we can better distinguish between types of street networks. We then show that repeated local transformations of a regular street grid lead to different yet largely predictable trajectories of differentiation depending upon the rules used. Finally, we show that different paths to differentiation entail different costs in terms of undesirable properties. This allows us to better assess the likely consequences of design moves and their appropriateness relative to design intentions.

scholarly journals EXPERIENCE IN USING AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY AND HISTORICAL MAPS IN HISTORICAL RESEARCH. LITERATURE, METHODS, CASES

2019 ◽  
pp. 44-63
Author(s):  
D.S. Zhukov ◽  
S.K. Lyamin ◽  
K.S. Kunavin
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Aerial Photography ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Field Surveys ◽  
Historic Maps

The objective of the study is to look into the best practices of environmental history in terms of methodology (including some interdisciplinary methods) – ones that can be adopted and adjusted for historical research. A review of literature is presented in which historic maps and the data of aerial photography are used for historical and environmental reconstructions. Key approaches and methods of such research are examined; and some case studies carried out with the implication of these methods are outlined as examples. An analysis and comparison of historic maps, modern data of aerial photography, field surveys and non-cartographic historical evidence is a powerful tool for reconstructing the historical dynamics of the landscapes. Such an analysis is a major provider of the information necessary to understand the evolution of the environment and to reveal the driving force – including anthropogenic ones – of its development. In historical studies, the research lens is refocused from the landscape to the study of human activity interacting with the changing environment. The authors conclude that this sort of an approach is supposed to be heuristically effective.

Punishment and the Lessons from History

1992 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Pratt
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Control ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
The Social ◽  
Legal Sanctions

This article examines the range of social forces which constitute the collection of legal sanctions which make up modem punishment systems. While not disputing the importance of the social control capacities which have been influential in the process, it argues that we also have to take into account changing cultural sensitivities and the still prevailing remnants of 19th Century political economy if we are to effectively understand the nature of punishment today. It draws primarily, although not exclusively, on historical research undertaken in New Zealand.

Two hitherto unknown Indonesian tsunamis of the seventeenth century: Probabilities and context

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Reid
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
South Coast ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
The South ◽  
Tectonic Events ◽  
2004 Tsunami ◽  
Geological Research

The 2004 tsunami intensified fruitful scientific research into dating past tectonic events in Sumatra, though without comparable work on Java. Geology needs to be informed by careful historical research on documented events, but less such work has been done in Indonesia than in other tectonically endangered areas. This paper examines the historical evidence for two hitherto unknown tsunamis of the seventeenth century. In better-researched Sumatra, Dutch reports that a flood from the sea devastated Aceh in 1660 adds to what the geologists have discovered on the ground. By contrast geological research has barely begun on the south coast of Java. Javanese sources for events before 1800 need careful re-evaluation. The myths around Ratu Kidul, the ‘Queen of the South Seas’, together with more chronologically reliable dated babads, point to a major tsunami in 1618 on the coast south of Yogyakarta.

“Stubborn things: evidence, postmodernism and the craft of history.”

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Muldoon
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Traditional Management ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Management History ◽  
Book Versus ◽  
History Of

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the recent book A New History of Management (NHM) and to discuss the strengths and limitations of the book versus traditional management history as practiced by Wren and Bedeian. Design/methodology/approach I analyze NHM by looking at the evidence presented in the book versus the historical record. Findings Although there are some strengths to NHM, the scholars often fail to address the larger historical evidence, which reduces the value of their work. Originality/value The value is to start a discussion of the nature of management history by discussing traditional versus postmodern history. Hopefully, the authors can commence with a dialogue to further historical research.

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