The theory of cities, which has grown out of the use of space syntax techniques in urban studies, proposes a curious mathematical duality: that urban space is locally metric but globally topo-geometric. Evidence for local metricity comes from such generic phenomena as grid intensification to reduce mean trip lengths in live centers, the fall of movement from attractors with metric distance, and...

Architecture and urban space play an important role among the sociological and psychological factors that influence humans and their well-being. Sociology and psychology analyse the role of architecture in the conscious shaping of urban space in the 21 century. This issue is very important from the point of view of sustainable development, as well as education of civil engineering graduates and...

The Barcelona superblock is an urban neighbourhood transformation strategy, with which car-based traffic redirected away from streets that are inside a 3 × block configuration. This design concept promises opportunities for alternative street use such as the of space into green space. potential to foster due however unclear, particularly outside original Barcelonan context. Concerning densifica...