Assessing Efficiency in Physical Layouts of Pedestrian Paths in Apartment Complexes

Yang, DongWoo; Yu, Sanggyun

doi:10.17208/jkpa.2020.02.55.1.5

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“…Briefly, the physical walking distance becomes longer, which acts as an obstacle to the purpose of passage through walking, which is one cause of reduction in walking activity [ 13 , 14 ]. Studies on how to integrate and increase the usefulness of the internal network of apartment complexes include Yang and Yu [ 15 ]. They use the Delanuay triangulation method to evaluate and compare average walking distances for currently used and potentially designed pedestrian networks for the apartment complexes in Seoul, South Korea.…”

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Opening Gated Communities and Neighborhood Accessibility Benefits: The Case of Seoul, Korea

Dogan

Han

Lee

2021

IJERPH

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The level of spatial accessibility is directly related to how street networks are connected. Connected or so-called “permeable” network systems encourage walking, cycling, and riding public transit. Fast urbanization during the recent decades in the world metropolises has created separated urban areas. Gated-style apartment complexes have led this segregation more obviously with their inaccessible internal networks. Opening the internal network of apartment complexes and redesigning the pedestrian paths among apartment buildings will significantly mitigate these networks’ adverse effects on network permeability and increase spatial accessibility. This paper analyzes how such an opening design proposal for apartment complexes can change spatial accessibility using the case study of Mapo-gu, Seoul, Korea. It simulates three types of street networks and compares the results of accessibility in three conditions: (1) the internal networks of apartment complexes are not used by outsiders; (2) the internal networks of apartment complexes are open to outsiders with its existing entrances and path; and (3) the internal networks of sites are opened and redesigned by the Voronoi diagram method, which generates the optimal shortest path. An urban network analysis tool, Rhinoceros three-dimensional software, and Grashopper3D visual programming language have been used for the study results, which shows that a policy change in opening the intra-network of apartment complexes is likely to make the city more permeable. In addition, this study suggests extra modification on the pedestrian path for a higher level of accessibility in neighborhoods.

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confidence: 99%