In this rejoinder, we answer questions about space syntax raised in Carlo Ratti's paper ``Urban texture and space syntax: some inconsistencies'', and discuss theoretical assumptions underlying some of his criticisms. DOI:10.1068/b3019a

At previous space syntax symposia discussions have arisen as to the best way to use space syntax methods as a teaching tool at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Using the example of the first exercise given to students on the MSc Advanced Architectural Studies at the Bartlett, UCL, we will present our experience in teaching space syntax as a tool for investigating the relationship between s...

Noise pollution is one of the four major pollutions in the world. In order to implement adequate strategies for noise control, assessment of traffic-generated noise is essential in city planning and management. The aim of this study was to determine whether space syntax could improve the predictive power of noise simulation. This paper reports a record linkage study which combined a documentary...

This paper presents the use of smoothly continuous road centreline segments – which are here termed strokes – as a useful basis for the analysis of street and road networks. The decomposition of networks into linear strokes, which show good continuation of direction and continuity of character (width or type), has been found to provide a basis for robust, effective, and efficient automatic gene...

The encoding of cities into non-planar dual graphs reveals their complex structure. We investigate the statistics of the typical space syntax measures for the five different compact urban patterns. Universal statistical behavior of space syntax measures uncovers the universality of the city creation mechanism. 1 Paradigm of a city Although, nowadays the majority of people live in cities [1] the...

The Spatial Positioning tool (SPOT) is an isovist-based spatial analysis software, and is written in Java working as a stand-alone program. SPOT differs from regular Space syntax software as it can produce integration graphs and intervisibility graphs from a selection of positions. The concept of the software originates from a series of field studies on building interiors highly influenced by o...

Noise pollution is one of the four major pollutions in the world. In order to implement adequate strategies for noise control, assessment of traffic-generated noise is essential in city planning and management. The aim of this study was to determine whether space syntax could improve the predictive power of noise simulation. This paper reports a record linkage study which combined a documentary...

introduction one of the critical issues associated with sustainability in the twenty-first century is how cities are growing and developing in the space. rapid urban growth and physical development of cities cause disintegration of the spatial organization of cities and consequently spatial inequality between urban spaces. this phenomenon can be considered as spatial segregation or fragmentatio...

Biskra is one of the Algerian cities that has undergone a very accelerated evolution through different periods its history. It confronted with serious problems related to various dysfunctions in particular planned urban structure and social suffering from several ills, whether in: housing spaces, equipment or public spaces. The latter present many anomalies depending on consumption space, ident...

Accessibility typically has been applied to urban or transportation problems two dimensionally. However, in large complex buildings as shopping centers or hospitals, inter-spatial accessibility among compartments has to be taken into account such as in building layouts or evacuation planning. This study expands space syntax theory, one of accessibility-related methodologies used for computing c...