Mapping as Spatial Knowledge

Dovey, Kim; Ristic, Mirjana; Pafka, Elek

doi:10.4324/9781315309163-1

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“…Any mapping of the city must reduce the complexities of urban form to particular layers of data -the power of the method and the map can derive from this choice of data as do its limits (Dovey et al, 2018). In this case the primary data are spatial axes.…”

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Limits of space syntax for urban design: Axiality, scale and sinuosity

Pafka

Dovey

Aschwanden

2018

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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Space syntax analysis of the city as a movement economy has made major contributions to our understanding of the spatial structure of cities, particularly the importance of a mapping of network integration in relation to density, functional mix and streetlife vitality. It has focused attention of urban researchers onto the importance of the relations between the sociality and spatiality of the city. The primary methods of syntactic analysis involve a reduction of urban morphology to a set of spatial axes; here, we explore some limits to such analysis for urban design. Topological analysis of axial models has long recognized problems in accounting for distance, scale and sinuous streetscapes. Existing adaptations to axial methods that address such problems are modelled and shown to produce a broad range of results for the same urban morphology. In each case, we also compare different capacities for to-movement and through-movement – the distinction between ‘closeness centrality’ and ‘betweenness centrality’ that shows that network integration is multiple. We argue that axial analyses privilege visibility over accessibility and can produce distorted mapping at walkable scales; only one of the methods tested measures permeability and walkable access. Space syntax analysis is a powerful tool that will be more useful the better such limits are understood.

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Limits of space syntax for urban design: Axiality, scale and sinuosity

Pafka

Dovey

Aschwanden

2018

Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

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“…While she occasionally used measures where available or useful, her primary currency was words. We suggest that the language of urban thinking also includes the knowledge embodied in diagrams and maps which are central to the discourses of spatial knowledge (Dovey et al, 2018). Diagrams and maps are fundamentally relational rather than reductionist; particular layers of data are selected to reveal general patterns of sociality and spatiality.…”

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What is walkability? The urban DMA

2019

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The concept of urban ‘walkability’ has come to occupy a key role at the nexus of a series of multidisciplinary fields connecting urban design and planning to broader issues of public health, climate change, economic productivity and social equity. Yet the concept of walkability itself remains elusive – difficult to define or operationalise. Density, functional mix and access networks are well-recognised as key factors: density concentrates more people and places within walkable distances; functional mix produces a greater range of walkable destinations; and access networks mediate flows of traffic between them. This complex synergy of density, mix and access – herein called the urban DMA – largely stems from the work of Jacobs. With an approach based in assemblage thinking we show that each of these factors is multiple and problematic to define or measure. Any reduction to a singular index of morphological properties can involve a misrecognition of how cities work. We argue that walkability is a complex and somewhat nebulous set of capacities embodied in any urban morphology, and that it should not be conflated with nor derived from actual levels of walking.

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“…In addition, exceptional high-peaks (intersecting metro lines) and low peaks (end lines) have been excluded. We used urban mapping as a primary method to enable comparative urban analysis across study areas and to understand how places work [66][67][68]. Figure 1 shows the diagram of urban mapping across different scales in this study.…”

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Access and Forms of Urbanity in Public Space: Transit Urban Design Beyond the Global North

Peimani

Kamalipour

2020

Sustainability

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There has been an emerging interest in the study of urban design dimensions associated with Transit-Oriented Developments (TODs). However, addressing the question of how TOD principles laid out in the international literature can be explored in the context of the global South remains in an incipient stage. In this paper, we investigate the nexus between station walkable catchments and forms of urbanity around transit nodes by adopting an assemblage approach to cut across any separation of sociality and spatiality. Drawing on empirical research from two case studies in Tehran, this paper contributes to studies on transit urban design by developing two measures of accessibility—the Catchment of Accessible Public Spaces (CAPS) and Accessible Interfaces (AI). We found that the combination of high CAPS and high AI within a given time can enable streetlife intensity, which is also linked to a synergistic effect of a larger assemblage, including the number of entries and diversity of functions. We argue that a focus on both measures is critical to understand the performance and potential transformation of street networks in a TOD.

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Mapping as Spatial Knowledge

Cited by 14 publications

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Limits of space syntax for urban design: Axiality, scale and sinuosity

Limits of space syntax for urban design: Axiality, scale and sinuosity

What is walkability? The urban DMA

Access and Forms of Urbanity in Public Space: Transit Urban Design Beyond the Global North

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