scholarly journals Under and over: location, uses and discontinuities in a centrally located neighbourhood in João Pessoa city reflecting current urban planning effects

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucy Donegan ◽  
José Augusto Ribeiro da Silveira ◽  
Geovany Jessé Alexandre da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Spatial Configuration ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
High Potential ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Central Location ◽  
Built Form ◽  
Physical Attributes ◽  
The City

Abstract This paper compares spatial configuration, built form and uses at Tambauzinho and Tambaú areas, in João Pessoa, Brazil. Although it is located between the old city centre and its expansion towards the coast, Tambauzinho presents little urban vitality, different from the expected in a central location, and to what happens in Tambaú. Understanding cities as problems in organized complexity, and that space configures fields of potential movement and encounters, physical attributes work together to facilitate urban vitality. The potential movement to and through places at various scales (according to space syntax framework) were analysed for the city and the areas and compared with built form and uses. Both areas' urban grid present high potential movement; however at Tambauzinho, local physical attributes and a highway crossing the neighbourhood hinder more legibility and walkability, interrupting local flows and visual and physical connections at street level, with poor qualities of sidewalks. Limited urban vitality in Tambauzinho is underlined by non-residential uses mostly concentrating at the areas’ northern periphery, whereas at Tambaú, they spread more throughout the area. Problems at Tambauzinho express a mainly vehicular oriented urban planning; understanding negative consequences aims to build knowledge, alleviating problems and re-directing future interventions.

scholarly journals PLANNING OF PRIVATE GATED DEVELOPMENT: AN ANALYSIS OF GATED VS NON-GATED NEIGHBOURHOODS, CITY OF GURUGRAM, INDIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajay Kaushik
Keyword(s):  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Spatial Configuration ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Gated Community ◽  
Neighbourhood Environment ◽  
Scholarly Literature ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
The City

The cities are expanding rapidly all over the world. India has also experienced this phenomenon and has continued the pace of growth. The recent trends in spatial growth of the cities are a new phenomenon in Indian urban landscape. The cities in India are witnessing development with the help of private developers for the last couple of decades. Being private properties these are by nature of exercising control have gates and boundaries. In scholarly literature these are called as Gated Community/Gated Development. Authors have argued them from various perspectives of anthropology, law, management and sociology etc. but very little has been discussed about their planning and morphology. Although, the rise of Gated Development is majorly attributed to the sense of fear and need for security, yet architects and urban designers, and even sociologist stress upon other methods to make the neighbourhoods secured. Hence the security aspects are not made part of the research here. The aspects of how these gated development impacts the perception of neighbourhood by residents is not touched upon. The paper discusses the distinction between the gated and non-gated neighbourhoods and also how residents perceive their neighbourhoods at large. For explaining this phenomenon, three neighbourhoods in the city of Gurugram in Haryana state in India have been identified as case study. These are identified on the basis of different morphological images that are identified. Space syntax and space cognition through sketch mapping is used for the analysis of the three neighbourhoods. The paper suggest that the continuity and connectivity of any spatial configuration is of utmost importance to make neighbourhood environment worthy of living life more socially connected.

URBANISTINIŲ TENDENCIJŲ POVEIKIS MIESTO CENTRO RENOVACIJAI

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 276-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalia Bardauskienė ◽  
Mindaugas Pakalnis
Keyword(s):  
Planning System ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Urban Structures ◽  
Territorial Planning ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Urban Issues ◽  
The City

A city centre is an integral part of the overall urban model of the city and its metropolitan area. Therefore, the centre is influenced by the same urban trends. Renovation of the centre and devastated inner areas is related to the chaotic suburbanization trend. This trend is known as urban sprawl. It sucks viable powers (people, investments) from the city, which reflects in the loss of density of the existing urban structure as well as unaesthetic landscapes and threatens the revitalization of the existing urban structures and centres. The research on master plans of cities show their nonconformity to the demographic situation, which makes it impossible to avoid negative consequences of urban spread, growing use of resources, car dependency and pollution. New housing is developed to satisfy market needs, whereas the public interest is ignored. Based on the theoretical and practical research, the authors came to the conclusion that there is a need for a coordinated urban/rural policy and a realistic integrated territorial planning system as well as related monitoring and implementation tools. The EU policy documents and resolutions of National urban forums, which serve as a strong public think tank and monitoring tool in Lithuania, can serve as the guide for the sustainable development. The urban issues should be integrated into the National strategy for 2030. Santrauka Miesto centras yra integruota viso miesto ir jo metropolinės zonos dalis, jį veikia tos pačios urbanistinės tendencijos. Sąlygų miestų centrams renovuoti, degraduojančioms teritorijoms atsinaujinti ir kompaktiškumui pasiekti susiformavimas ar, jei pripažįstame, kad plėtrą galima valdyti, sudarymas, yra susijęs su chaotiškos priemiesčių suburbanizacijos mastu. Nevaldomos priemiesčių suburbanizacijos reiškinys tarptautiniuose mokslo darbuose, politikos dokumentuose vadinamas urbanistiniu sprogimu. Lietuvoje urbanistinis sprogimas išryškėjo XXI a. pradžioje, jį lemia įvairūs sociokultūriniai veiksniai. Atlikti tyrimai rodo, kad urbanistinis sprogimas reikalauja miestų renovacijos išteklių, blogina miestų demografinę situaciją, didina energijos vartojimą, automobilių skaičių bei viešosios infrastruktūros poreikį. Chaotiškos priemiesčių suburbanizacijos problemų neišsprendžia fizinės aplinkos projektavimas, atsietas nuo socialinio, ekonominio planavimo. Jis daugiausia sprendžia komercinius uždavinius. Remdamiesi pasaulinio garso urbanistų teiginiais, ES urbanistinės politikos gairėmis, atliktais Lietuvos urbanistinių tendencijų tyrimais, Vilniaus miesto monitoringo ataskaitos duomenimis, autoriai teigia, kad chaotiškas priemiesčių urbanizavimas yra nei funkcionalus, nei estetiškas, nei palankus miestų urbanistinių struktūrų, tarp jų ir centrų, renovacijai. Jis gali būti įveiktas tik numatant kompleksines, koordinuotas urbanistinės politikos, teritorijų planavimo ir įgyvendinimo priemones.

A Retrieval Model of Spatial Configuration Based on Space Syntax Histogram

2014 ◽  
Vol 1044-1045 ◽  
pp. 1011-1015
Author(s):  
Chang Hua Li ◽  
Zhi Jie Li ◽  
Long Fei Yuan ◽  
Xin Liu ◽  
Fan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Spatial Configuration ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Retrieval Model ◽  
Regular Grid ◽  
Grid Structure ◽  
Retrieval Models ◽  
The Relationship

With the application of space syntax theory in urban planning and architecture designing is growing continuously, the number of the urban spatial configuration models based on space syntax will be more and more. However, the use of these models still lacks of some intelligent retrieval models currently. This paper splits the urban spatial configuration into regular grid structure, and uses visibility segmentation to construct the relationship diagrams and then extracts space syntax variables from each node to form the four-dimensional histogram. Furthermore, this method calculates the similarity among models through the measurement of the histogram distance, thus realizes the retrieval of the urban spatial configuration. Experimental results show that this model has a satisfactory retrieval results.

scholarly journals Infill projects and sustainable land use in heritage zones: how to reconcile competing interest sets

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Ewa Stachura
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Original Structure ◽  
Vacant Land ◽  
Infill Development ◽  
City Community ◽  
Built Form ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
The City

<p class="Abstract">Sustainability and heritage are inextricably linked. Heritage conservation helps to build and maintain cultural identity and social cohesion of the city community, especially amongst indigenous residents. Heritage zones in European cities and towns over time have suffered destruction and undesirable urban transitions that alter or remove heritage urban fabric. While architecture and urban heritage aims are generally to promote infill development that retains the integrity of the original structure, communities tend to argue for social values that emphasise the retention of vacant land even if it was originally part of the heritage-built form. Hence, the aim of this paper is to identify city residents’ aspirations in relation to such vacant land and spaces. The paper will investigate the case of Raciborz, a medium-sized city in Southern Poland. It will seek to answer the following questions: 1) Are heritage urban composition and principles of its protection antagonistic to the residents’ aspirations? 2) What are the criteria for classifying and valorising vacant land within a heritage city centre? 3) What is the most appropriate way for city administrations to engage with communities to reconcile competing interest sets? What might be possible educational actions addressed to the communities? In the paper the procedure of identifying and evaluating empty sites in the heritage city centre will be presented as well as the results of survey presenting residents’ ideas of optimal way of use of empty city spaces.</p>

scholarly journals SPACE SYNTAX ANALYSES IN DEFINING THE CONNECTION OF DEVELOPMENT CENTERS IN BALIKPAPAN

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Sherlia Sherlia ◽  
Nadia Almira Jordan ◽  
Elin Dyah Syafitri
Keyword(s):  
Future Development ◽  
Spatial Configuration ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
New Development ◽  
The Future ◽  
Development Center ◽  
The City

Old town means an historic or original core of a city which signifies the city’s origin growth. When the city develops and expands its built area, the emergence of a new development center will be inevitable. This study focuses on the connection of the old and new development center of Balikpapan city. In defining the mentioned connection, the authors use Space Syntax theory and depthmapX[net] software to analyze connectivity, integration and choice of the observed networks. Space Syntax analyses helped defining the spatial configuration of the old and the new center of development of Balikpapan city which has higher scores in main connectors and lower scores in local streets which also defines the movement and accessibility of the observed area. It is hoped that this study would be beneficial in guiding the planning and design of the future development of Balikpapan city that is appropriate with its spatial configuration.

scholarly journals Engaging the Senses: The Potential of Emotional Data as a New Information Layer in Urban Planning

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Afif Fathullah ◽  
Katharine S. Willis
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Information Layer ◽  
Stress Levels ◽  
Skin Response ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Although our emotional connection with the physical urban setting is often valued, it is rarely recognised or used as a resource to understand future actions in city planning. Yet, despite the importance of emotion, citizens&rsquo; emotions are typically seen as difficult to quantify and individualistic, even though knowledge about people&rsquo;s response to space could help planners understand people&rsquo;s behaviours and learn about how citizens use and live in the city. The study explores the relationship between the physical space and emotions through identifying the links between stress levels, and specific features of the urban environment. This study aims to show the potential of integrating the use of galvanic skin response (GSR) within urban spatial analysis and city planning, in order to address the relationship between emotions and urban spaces. This method involved participants using a (GSR) device linked to location data to measure participant&rsquo;s emotional responses along a walking route in a city centre environment. Findings show correlations between characteristics of environment and stress levels, as well as how specific features of the city spaces such as road crossing create stress &lsquo;hotspots&rsquo;. We suggest that the data obtained could contribute to citizens creating their own information layer - an emotional layer- that could inform urban planning decision-making. The implications of this application of this method as an approach to public participation in urban planning are also discussed.

scholarly journals The Copenhagen Metropolitan ‘Finger Plan’

2019 ◽  
pp. 218-243
Author(s):  
Eva Sørensen ◽  
Jacob Torfing
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Metropolitan Region ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
City Centre ◽  
The Political ◽  
Private Citizens ◽  
Adaptive Development ◽  
Post War ◽  
The City

The metropolitan region of Copenhagen in Denmark has successfully avoided urban sprawl through a comprehensive public plan initiated more than seventy years ago. Given the well-known challenges to urban planning, it is surprising how successful this so-called Finger Plan has been in governing the process of expansion and development to satisfy both public planners and private citizens. Formulated in the optimistic post-war years, 1945–7, when the pressure on land use outside the city centre was still limited, the plan was initiated by the private Urban Planning Lab. In today’s terminology, this was a bottom-up grassroots initiative which maintained support from local, regional, and national decision-makers. Higher than expected growth in population, economy, and transportation infrastructure has been achieved through robust adaptation. Now considered by many to be one of the greatest Danish planning achievements in history, it was included in 2006 on the national list of celebrated cultural icons. The chapter analyses the conditions for and adaptive development of the Finger Plan. The analysis of the factors driving the successful formulation and implementation of the Finger Plan pays attention to the question of timing, the professional process management, the political coalition building, the strength of metaphors, and the ability to adapt to changing conditions.

scholarly journals ANALISIS POLA KONFIGURASI RUANG TERBUKA KOTA DENGAN PENGGUNAAN METODA SPACE SYNTAX SEBAGAI SPATIAL LOGIC DAN SPACE USE

NALARs ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Muhammad Fajri Romdhoni
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Spatial Configuration ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Space Use ◽  
Rapid Transit ◽  
Syntax Analysis ◽  
Spatial Logic ◽  
Sporting Event ◽  
The City

ABSTRAK. Pengembangan kota Palembang terus berkembang sejak adanya kegiatan Pekan Olah Raga Nasional PON dan juga SEA Games yang dilaksanakan di kota Palembang. Saat ini Palembang terus berbenah diri dengan menyosong dilaksanakannya kegiatan olah raga Asean Games di tahun 2018 ini. Berbagai pengembangan fisik kota dari dibangunan jaringan LRT (light rapid transit), pembangunan pusat perbelanjaan dan juga hotel-hotel baru hingga peremajaan dan pembangunan ruang terbuka untuk menampung kegiatan spatial dan kegiatan baik masyarakat kota Palembang itu sendiri ataupun untuk kepentingan pariwisata kota Palembang. Perkembangan ruang kota tersebut dirasakan peneliti dikerjakan dengan terburu-buru dan tidak disertai dengan perencanaan yang matang, sehingga menghasilkan produk yang tidak maksimal. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk meneliti konfigurasi ruang terbuka yang ada di kota Palembang, dan lokasi dari penelitian tersebut adalah ruang terbuka yang sangat terkenal di kota palembang yaitu ruang terbuka kawasan Benteng Kuto Besak. Di dalam ruang terbuka BKB tersebut terdapat beberapa elemen yang tidak sesuai dengan konfigurasi ruang terbuka yang baik, dan ditinjau dari analisis space syntax yang berguna untuk mengukur kualitas spatial, terlihat bahwa di ruang terbuka BKB tersebut tercipta beberapa ruang-ruang mati dan elemen di kawasan tersebut yang cenderung melemahkan kualitas spatial yang ada. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk melihat ruang gerak yang wajar di ruang terbuka BKB, di dalam arsitektur hal tersebut dikenal dengan istilah spatial logic yang berguna untuk melihat arah pengembangan ruang terbuka agar dapat dimanfaatkan secara maksimal bagi space use konfigurasi ruang terbuka kota Palembang. Kata kunci: ruang terbuka, Benteng Kuto Besak, space syntax, spatial logic, space use ABSTRACT. The development of Palembang city has arisen since the National Sporting Event known as PON and also the Southeast Asian games known as SEA games thas is being held in the town. Nowadays the city has transformed itself and constantly changing for the preparation to hold another international sporting event known as Asian games in the year 2018. There are many development that is being done to the city from the building of the new infrastructure of Light Rapid Transit rails across the city and also the development of new shopping malls and even new hotels to the development of the towns open space that is a spatial spot that holds the public event and also has the particular needs to be developed to support the cities tourism. The researcher felt that development that is being done in the city is done carelessly and without careful planning and produces poor spatial products. This research purpose is to analyze the open space configuration carefully and the place that the research is being carried out is a well known open space in Palembang which is the open space of Benteng Kuto Besak, or that is well known as BKB. The elements inside BKB is not appropriate to the spatial configuration of good public space, and through the space syntax analysis to see the spatial quality we can see that there are dead spaces throughout the BKB area and the spatial elements inside the BKB are responsible for them. The purpose of this research is to understand the natural flow of space and to see the spatial logic that is intended for the BKB space. Through the spatial logic, we can also see the best space use designed for the BKB open space configuration pattern in Palembang. Keywords: open space, Benteng Kuto Besak, space syntax, spatial logic, space use

scholarly journals The Terazije terrace as a development axis of the center of Belgrade

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-238
Author(s):  
Denis Ambruš
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
International Competition ◽  
City Centre ◽  
City Center ◽  
Spatial Organisation ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
Historical Centre

The main problem with urban planning of Belgrade's historical city centre lies within the area of the Terazije terrace, which has over the years changed its appearance. Architect Nikola Dobrović laid down its foundations in 1929 in his entry to an international competition. It is precisely this concept which paved the way for the area to be expanded as needed, and gradually to reach the Sava riverbank. Two types of construction would need to take precedence in order for Savska padina to have the uniqueness of the space and better view at Savska padina. The first type of construction is defined by horizontal texture of terraces and esplanades and the second with clusters of buildings and mega-structures concentrated in one zone only. In this way the right balance between the historical centre and the Sava riverbank would be struck, with the focus on Terazije and the Sava amphitheater and the future gravitation towards the Terazije terrace serving as the driving force of the city centre's development. In this scenario, the existing "barrier" between the development and integration is recognised as an instrument of urban planning. Regulating the area around the Terazije terrace as a model for the development of the city centre would in the best way contribute to its concretization and set a good example of spatial organisation, respecting the identity and the context of the city center.

scholarly journals Conceptual Model for Urban Interventions in Historic Cities based on Space Syntax

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 4219-4225
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Spatial Configuration ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Analytical Techniques ◽  
Rational Approach ◽  
Cultural Integration ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
The City ◽  
Historic Cities

Urbanism today is a synthesis of inheritance, prevalence and futurism. As our inheritance struggles with the rapid transformations and anxiously waits for the future, their conservation becomes an issue related to our cognizance of the genuine relations between tangible and intangible properties. While urban development strategies enormously emphasis the issues on sustainability, social balance, public realm, environment and heritage, the space proxemics of cities are very often ignored. This model is designed in a way that combines analytical techniques of space syntax and cultural context for an objective enquiry into user precise space proxemics of the city and scientifically states the spatial configuration as visible spatial rules or principles of urbanism in the traditional urban cores, thereby evolving a rational approach towards urban interventions. This model caters both for conservation studies and as well for rejuvenation of existing built environments or to design new urban centers for developing traditional urban cores of any city. The model has its application for urban interventions in the chosen area with quantified syntactic parameters for their spatial configuration. This resulted in both cases improving and depriving the culture-precise-human-predilections about space proxemics affecting cultural integration values.

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