Print Email Facebook Twitter Connectivity-oriented urban projects Title Connectivity-oriented urban projects Author Philibert Petit, E. Contributor Drewe, P. (promotor) Faculty Architecture Date 2006-06-19 Abstract This thesis is about connections in the built environment, networked connections for the mobility of people at the smallest scale of the urban realm: the pedestrian scale. It deals with applications of the new science of networks as a tool for observation and assessment of connectivity in the urban space. It explores networks theoretically through the study recently discovered scientific principles and uses such network concepts empirically by means of a GIS networked model applied to study cases before and after concrete interventions by design in the urban space. Based on the assumption that physical structures have a direct effect on patterns of social organization and behavior and vice versa, this research represents an instrumental approach to the problem of fragmentation in the city, by proposing concrete actions to gain connectivity, in the form of urban projects: connectivity-oriented urban projects. The method of investigation is research by design, with the induction of potential solutions to the problem of fragmentation in the urban tissues in the form of briefs and hypothetical design of urban projects. Briefs and designs presented in this thesis are related to a research design integrated by a theoretical cycle and an empirical cycle. In each one of these cycles, the phases of analysis, design, strategy and evaluation are present, as in a spatial planning cycle. The evaluation of design has been made with a GIS model developed to observe and assess connectivity at the level of pedestrian mobility in the urban space. Resulting of this work, a report of the design and application of a GIS model devised to observe and assess conditions of transversal connectivity in the urban space is presented. A description of the model, which is based upon the principles of urban structure and the rules of coherence of complex systems, is also included. Subject connectivitysustainabilitynetworkscomplex systemsurban realm To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:95545026-c11b-473b-983a-bfa28fa0cbc7 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights (c) 2006 E. Philibert Petit Files PDF arc_philibert_petit_20060619.pdf 89.99 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:95545026-c11b-473b-983a-bfa28fa0cbc7/datastream/OBJ/view