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The unique spatial system of the medieval parish church in Kassa (now Košice, in Slovakia) induced strong debates in the literature, and some scholars called the master behind it a bungler. The reconstruction of the church at the end of the 19 th century changed the floor plan entirely, with the result of a more regular arrangement. Using the drawings about the state of the church the medieval system is reconstructable in 3D. With the help of this 3D-model a structural analysis is possible. According to the spatial analysis and the structural calculations, the former unique layout of the church was the result of conscious planning.

A XX. század második felében világszerte számos nagyvárosban tűntek el organikus, sűrű beépítésű, egészségtelennek és szociálisan problémásnak titulált városrészek, hogy modern vasbeton lakótelepeknek adják át helyüket. Több évtized távlatából visszatekintve nehéz objektíven megállapítani, hogy a városzövetnek ezek a drasztikus átalakításai meghozták-e az építésük idején remélt pozitív változásokat. A cikk a space syntax kvantitatív módszereit helyszíni megfigyelésekkel és a korabeli sajtó híradásainak elemzésével egy miskolci példán vizsgálja a kérdést.

Central Europe witnessed an urban boom at the beginning of the 20th century. By that time, the leading state of the area was Austria-Hungary, with Vienna as its capital. Before the First World War, even larger expansion of the cities was predictable. Otto Wagner, a leading architect of the empire and an expert in urban planning and architectural theory, published his vision about the future of the evolution of cities in 1911. In this book, he formulates clear rules about how a city should sustainably expand in a controlled manner. In this article, these rules of the inherited patterns are systematised and turned into recursive algorithms to simulate the urban growth controlled by them and the resulting patterns. The algorithms are tested on 1911 Vienna and, as comparison, on 2021 Miskolc, a medium-sized city in Hungary with different geographic surroundings. In the article, the resulting patterns are presented in 2D and 3D.