Can Space Syntax Help Us in Understanding the Intraurban Office Rent Pattern? Accessibility and Rents in Downtown Stockholm

Urban Morphology and Housing Market

“…Using network analysis of street configuration to more accurately measure the supply of general accessibility is an appealing idea since it makes good intuitive sense that street arrangement at multiple scales has a bearing on how a particular location is valued. Some empirical studies have confirmed that the space syntax "integration" has an impact on housing price using topological network measurements (Matthews and Turnbull 2007;Enström and Netzell 2008).Indeed, Hillier and Hanson (1984a) made the distinction that underlying structures of space carry patterns of behavior, which have a social function. Vaughan et al(2005) and Vaughan and Penn (2006), employed space syntax network analysis to examine the relationship between urban form and immigrants quarters.…”

“…They concluded that the portion of house value contributed by street layout critically depends upon the context of the surrounding development pattern. Enström and Netzell (2008) also used space syntax methods in a hedonic price approach to test the urban street layout impact on commercial office rents in Stockholm. They approached space syntax integration and found that it showed a positive impact on office rent.…”

“…A variety of accessibility measuring devices has been adopted to capture the locational premium effect more sensitively than the purely Euclidean distance used in many studies on property value (Niedercorn and Ammari 1987;Hoch and Waddell 1993). Specific approaches include studies specifying accessibility index by travel time (Landau et al 1981), job accessibility (Srour et al 2002), railway infrastructure improvement (Henneberry 1998), and systemic street network connectivity (Matthews and Turnbull 2007;Enström and Netzell 2008).…”

Apply Space Syntax to Design a TOD land Use Plan

“…Chen (2008) argued that such a methodology was essentially different from other urban analysis methods that were based on land lots as analytical units. Enström and Netzell (2008) suggested that it was different from the traditional gravity model which only considered the move from one spot to the other [12]. Turner A.…”

“…Whether cities can be healthy, enjoyable, resilient places to live and ensure that the draw of their populations' consumption and enterprises' production on local, regional and global resources and sinks is not disproportionate [11]. In this context, Moore [12] claims that there is a triangular conflict among economy Fig. 1, ecology and equity as key sustainability contributors in terms of strategy achievement.…”