Private and Public Space

Analysing Spatial Relationships Between Buildings and Streets

Book chapter (2021)

Authors

A. van Nes Spatial Planning and Strategy - Architecture and the Built Environment , Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
Claudia Yamu OsloMet – storbyuniversitetet, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Research Group
Spatial Planning and Strategy (Architecture and the Built Environment) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2021 A. van Nes, Claudia Yamu
DOI
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59140-3_4
Natural surveillance Street life Active frontages Building–street interface Public and private spaces Intervisibility Topological depth Street constitutedness Social control
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Published Date

2021

Language

English

Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Department

Urbanism

Research Group

Spatial Planning and Strategy

Abstract

In this chapter, we discuss and demonstrate how to analyse the urban micro-spatial relationships between private and public spaces. These methods allow one to analyse intervisibility between buildings andstreets, entrance density from buildings towards streets, street constitutedness, and the topological depth between private and public spaces. These urban micro-scale analyses are a quantification of Jane Jacob’s (1960) and Jan Gehl’s (1996) presumptions about the interrelation between streets and building entrances and windows. Exercises are provided at the end of this chapter.