Organization of living environment is possible through a clear definition of private and public arenas and determinationof a spatial hierarchy. Such defined arenas increase the sense of belonging to the environment which personalizesresidential environments. Enclosure is among the quantities that play a significant role in defining the spaces. In fact,enclosure is the factor that defines a spac...

Abstract In the last two decades, urban redevelopment practices in informal settlements Turkey often neglected inhabitants' spatial practices. The contradictions between conceived and lived space constitutes reactions to these interventions. Against this background, paper examines association place attachment residents' attitudes toward project an informally developed neighborhood. Using path d...

While cellular automata (CA) models have been increasingly used over the last decades to simulate a wide range of spatial phenomena, recent studies have illustrated that they are sensitive to cell size and neighborhood configuration. In this paper, a new vector-based cellular automata (VecGCA) model is described to overcome the scale sensitivity of the raster-based CA models. VecGCA represents ...