MICRO SCALE SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS IN URBAN STUDIES: the relationship between private and public space and its impact on street life
Year: 2007
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Research on urban environment by means of space syntax theory and methods tends to focus on macro scale spatial conditions. However, micro scale conditions should not be neglected. In research on street life and dispersal of crime in urban areas, it became inevitable to pay attention to the interdependence between the macro as well as the micro scale spatial conditions. For this purpose, spatial analyses methods were developed and tested in the Dutch towns Alkmaar and Gouda as regards topological relationships between private and public space. In particular inter-visibility of windows and doors and their inter-relationship to street segments were taken into account. Other variables were the density of entrances of private houses connected to streets, the topological depth between various kinds of private and public space, the degree of constitutedness of street segments and the degree of visibility from windows to parking lots. The application of these tools in the analyses on built environments shows clearly that micro scale spatial relationships have impact on street life and street safety in urban areas.
Authors: Akkelies van Nes, Manuel Jiménez López
Language: English
Subfield: Urban Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2161526048