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The Impact of the Ring Roads on the Location Pattern of Shops in Town and City Centres
A Space Syntax Approach
This contribution demonstrates how inner ring roads change the location pattern of shops in urban areas with the application of the space syntax method. A market rational behaviour persists, in that shop owners always search for an optimal location to reach as many customers as p
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Noise and Spatial Configuration in Biskra, Algeria
A Space Syntax Approach to Understand the Built Environment for Visually Impaired People
This contribution investigates the correlation between street noise levels and the spatial configuration of the street network in four different types of neighbourhoods in the Algerian city of Biskra. Space syntax methods are used to analyse spatial relationships, where accessibi
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Bill hillier’s legacy
Space syntax—a synopsis of basic concepts, measures, and empirical application
Bill Hillier’s space syntax method and theory enables us to describe the spatial properties of a sustainable city. Empirical testing of the space syntax method over time has confirmed the capacity and innovativeness of analyzing spatial relationships with the purpose of understan
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Spatial Configurations and Walkability Potentials
Measuring Urban Compactness with Space Syntax
This contribution demonstrates how space syntax methods on various scale levels can be used to identify and describe the spatial features of a compact city. Firstly, the term urban compactness is discussed. A short discussion of some writings on the compact city are elaborated. A
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Analysing Linear Spatial Relationships
The Measures of Connectivity, Integration, and Choice
In this chapter, we first explain the concept of an axial line and how the axial map is applied in space syntax. We then discuss the static measure of ‘connectivity’ with its ‘one-step’ to ‘n-step’ logic, including its meaning for axial integration analysis. We further present th
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Space and crime in North-African city of Annaba
Using Space Syntax to understand the strategy of offenders in the choice of location of street crime
The study investigates the relationship between space and crime by using space syntax. The aim is to describe the spatial characteristics of the built environment and the spatial distribution of crime pattern. The space syntax variables are connected to the statistical data on st
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Diachronic assessment of cultural diversity in historic neighbourhoods using space syntax
Studies of three neighbourhoods in Istanbul
This paper investigates the mutual effects of cultural diversity and neighbourhood change in three historic neighbourhoods in Istanbul. Through history, some neighbourhoods in Istanbul have been home for people from different cultural and religious backgrounds. In some of these n
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Sexual Violence in the City
Space, Gender, and the Occurrence of Sexual Violence in Rotterdam
There is a need for knowledge of how the spatial features of the urban environment can shape the potential for safe streets and a gender inclusive society. This research reveals the relationship between a built environment’s spatial features, the presence of various types of peop
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#WomenSpatialActivism
An urban designer's approach towards re-appropriation of spaces by women in New Delhi, India
Women inequality is a common practice in today’s world which is global in nature. Focusing on a developing country like India, violence against women, needless to say, is a grave concern. Crime in the form of rapes, molestation, and eve-teasing, has made public spaces fearful, an
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The [en]gendered City
Towards an evolutionary process of gender-equal urban planning and design
Despite the increasing demand for women’s participation in the growing economy, the persisting gender inequality in current societies has a significant spatial factor contributing to inhibiting women from accessing various facilities and economic opportunities, further underminin
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#Amsterdam after 6 pm
Planning for a diverse and balanced night-time economy
With the development of the social economy, the traditional urban work and rest pattern of working during the day and resting at night has gradually changed. The night-time economy has become a new engine for urban regeneration, economic growth and cultural creation.The growth of
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Third Place Design
Reconnect historic social-spatial network of Shao City, Chengdu, China
The general problem of the thesis project is the issue of declining liveability of old neighbourhood area and the lost place identity of Shao City. To be more specific, the problem focus is the fractured social-spatial network between the old neighbourhood and the area for new so
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Beyond Road
Rethink the potential of ecosystem services of the arterial network in Rotterdam
Modern urban road systems often bring environmental problems and affect the quality of life of residents. The main roads in the south of Rotterdam face problems with lack of greenery, heat island effect and flash flooding. These problems have had a negative impact on the well-bei
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Automated Driving: Driving Urban Development?
An integrated research-by-design computational modelling approach in urban planning problems
Complex urban planning problems comprise socio-spatial conditions, human behaviour and external factors (e.g. technological developments). The perspective of urban planners and designers is crucial to comprehend these problems from a holistic point of view but does not possess th
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Shifting Urbanity
Urban experiment on walkability and traffic efficiency, the case of Amsterdam Centrum in the automated era
Amsterdam Centrum has been suffering from the spatial competition between overcrowded pedestrian visitors and busy vehicular flows. Application of automated vehicles is a historic opportunity to reclaim the streets for people and change the predicament of the downtown. The thesis
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Mad City
Imagination of rap music as an experimental methodological device for the re-imagination of urban space in Los Angeles
The dilemma of race and space is deep entwined in the history of United States. From the slave quarters of plantations in the South to redlining and housing projects, the unjust distribution of space between diff erent ethnic groups has demarcated “otherness” until recent days. P
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People-oriented Street Design
Transform street from spaces into places with Automated Vehicle as a trigger
Improving the quality of urban spaces has always been the central concern for the urban designers. Street as the typical type of public spaces comprises more than 80% of public space in cities, but they often fail to provide a space where people can safely walk, bicycle and socia
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Adaptable Nowa Huta
Revitalizing the socialist legacy
The research in this master graduation focuses on Nowa Huta, a neighborhood located in the Krakow Metropolitan Area (Poland). Nowa Huta was designed and build as a socialist ideal city in the socialist era, complete with its own steel plant where the majority of the inhabitants w
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Preteen use and perception of public space in Utrecht in 1996, 2016 and into the future
Regenerating urban social structures by building on child-friendly spatial characteristics
This thesis explores the possible effects of spatial characteristics on the use and
perception public space by pre-teen children. The aim of this thesis was to identify spatial patterns that can be used to create urban public spaces which enhance the ability of children to make (
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City Rituals. The Field
Rethinking the brewery
Social life in a modern city is conditioned by long-established traditions, cultural codes, and patterns of human behavior. Such aspects will be individual for almost any city since their formation takes place over long periods. A similar activator of social life in London is the
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