TY - CHAP
T1 - Space Syntax
T2 - A method to measure urban space related to social, economic and cognitive factors
AU - van Nes, Akkelies
AU - Yamu, Claudia
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - In the past two decades the space syntax method, developed by Bill Hillier and his colleagues at the University College London, have been applied to urban studies. This method consists of calculating configurative spatial relationships in built environments. In urban analyses, according to Hillier, space syntax is four things. Firstly, space syntax is operating with a concise definition of urban space. Secondly, it is a family of techniques for analysing cities as the networks of space formed by the placing, grouping and orientation of buildings. Thirdly, it is a set of techniques for observing how these networks of space relate to functional patterns such as movement, land use, area differentiation, migration patterns and even social wellbeing and malaise. Fourthly, based on the empirical results from the two first things, space syntax has made it possible to make a set of theories about how urban space networks relate in general to the social, economic and cognitive factors which shape them and are affected by them (Hillier et al, 2007). Recently the Space Syntax toolkit has been integrated into the open source geographic information system QuantumGIS.
AB - In the past two decades the space syntax method, developed by Bill Hillier and his colleagues at the University College London, have been applied to urban studies. This method consists of calculating configurative spatial relationships in built environments. In urban analyses, according to Hillier, space syntax is four things. Firstly, space syntax is operating with a concise definition of urban space. Secondly, it is a family of techniques for analysing cities as the networks of space formed by the placing, grouping and orientation of buildings. Thirdly, it is a set of techniques for observing how these networks of space relate to functional patterns such as movement, land use, area differentiation, migration patterns and even social wellbeing and malaise. Fourthly, based on the empirical results from the two first things, space syntax has made it possible to make a set of theories about how urban space networks relate in general to the social, economic and cognitive factors which shape them and are affected by them (Hillier et al, 2007). Recently the Space Syntax toolkit has been integrated into the open source geographic information system QuantumGIS.
UR - https://www.routledge.com/The-Virtual-and-the-Real-in-Planning-and-Urban-Design-Perspectives-Practices/Yamu-Poplin-Devisch-Roo/p/book/9781138283480
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-1-138283480
T3 - Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
SP - 136
EP - 150
BT - The Virtual and The Real in Planning and Urban Design
A2 - Yamu, Claudia
A2 - Poplin, Alenka
A2 - Devisch, Oswald
A2 - De Roo, Gert
PB - Routledge - Taylor & Francis Group
ER -
