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...

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...

The purpose of this study is to develop a new space syntax technique by adding third dimension in analysis of urban structure that is important to understand the formation of the cities. The theoretical framework of the study is put forward by integrating space syntax with the theory of the image of city. This entails the essential elucidation of spatial cognition pattern and image and the inte...

Space syntax matrix has been the main approach for human movement prediction in the urban environment. An alternative, relatively new methodology is an agentbased pedestrian model constructed using machine learning techniques. Even though both approaches have been studied intensively, the quantitative comparison between them has not been conducted. In this paper, comparative analysis of space s...