TY  - BOOK
AU  - Majumdar, Arindam
AU  - Munshi, Talat (Guide)
AU  - Zuidgeest, Mark (Guide)
TI  - Exploring the relationship between urban road layout, urban form and economic activities using space syntax - a case of Ahmedabad city  (Also available CD)
U1  - P TH-1124 
PY  - 2009///
N1  - CONTENTSExecutive Summary14 CONTENTS 6 List of figures and tables  10 List of acronyms  13 1  Introduction  18 1.1  Introduction to the research interest  18 1.1.1  Cities  18 1.1.2  Spatial configuration of cities  20 1.1.3  Space Syntax: A Tool for configurational analysis of space  21 1.2  Background and justification of this research  22 1.3  Research Problem  23 1.4  Research Objective  25 1.4.1  Main objective:  25 1.4.2  Sub-objectives and research questions:  25 1.5  Research design  26 1.6  Case Study Area: Ahmedabad city, Gujarat, India  28 1.7  Conceptual framework  30 2  Literature Review  32 2.1  Literature on urban form and urban centres:  32 2.1.1  Urban form  32 2.1.2  Urban centres / city centres  32 2.1.3  Accessibility  33 2.2  Transport models and scale  35 2.3  Space Syntax: A theory on spatial configuration  35 2.4  Principles of movement  37 2.4.1  The principle of natural movement  37 2.4.2  Theory of movement economy  37 2.5  Axial representation of street layout: The axial map  37 2.6  Limitations of axial representation  38 2.7  Space Syntax model and urban phenomenon  39 2.8  Space Syntax parameters  39 2.8.1  Connect / connectivity, Ci  40 2.8.2  Control value, ctrli  40 2.8.3  Distance in Space Syntax, dij  40 2.8.4  Depth, Dij  41 2.8.5  Mean depth  41 2.8.6  Global integration  41 2.8.7  Local integration  42 2.8.8  Intelligibility  42 2.9  Conclusion  43 3  Urban development mechanism in Ahmedabad  44 3.1  City Development Plan and Town Planning Schemes  44 3.2  Objectives of a Development Plan and its implementation through TP Schemes  45 3.3  Provisions in Town Planning scheme  48 3.4  Limitations of TP Schemes  49 4  Data collection, preparation and analysis  50 4.1  Introduction to data collection  50 4.1.1  Selection of field survey area  50 4.1.2  Field Survey  52 4.1.3  Secondary data collection  52 4.2  Introduction to data entry and data preparation  53 5  Space Syntax analysis of Ahmedabad  56 5.1  Methodology for analysis  56 5.2  Results of the Space syntax analysis  56 5.2.1  Results and discussion of the correlation analysis between Space syntax parameters  56 5.2.2  Connect  58 5.2.3  Control  59 5.2.4  Global Integration  60 5.2.5  Local Integration  62 5.3  Interpretation and Conclusions  64 5.4  Limitations in analysis  64 6  Methodology in generating Space syntax surfaces  66 6.1  Space syntax interpolation surfaces and its use in this research  66 6.1.1  Advantages of this technique  66 6.1.2  Limitations of this technique  67 6.2  Methodology and results  67 6.3  Conclusions  70 7  Space syntax parameters and Urban Form  71 7.1  Urban form indicators  71 7.2  Space syntax parameters and building height  71 7.2.1  Results  72 7.2.2  Correlation between Global integration and building height in different locations  73 7.2.3  Conclusions  74 7.3  Space syntax parameters and landuse  74 7.3.1  Results  75 7.3.2  Conclusions  76 7.4  Landuse and local integration  77 7.4.1  Conclusion  78 7.5  Space syntax parameters and density of jobs  78 7.5.1  Conclusion  80 7.5.2  Limitations  81 8  Spatial configuration and urban form development  82 8.1  Spatial structure and city development plan  82 8.2  Bopal Town Planning Scheme  83 8.3  Space syntax analysis of Bopal: Existing, proposed and experimental road layout  86 8.3.1  Methodology  86 8.3.2  Analysis results  88 8.3.3  Syntax interpolation surface of existing road layout  88 8.3.4  Syntax interpolation surface of planned road layout  89 8.3.5  Syntax interpolation surface of a hypothetical road layout  90 8.4  Conclusions and discussion  91 9  Conclusions and recommendations  92 9.1  Summary of main findings  92 9.1.1  Space syntax analysis  92 9.1.2  Correlation between syntax values and urban form indicators  92 9.1.3  Syntax accessibility and urban form development  93 9.2  Aims and objectives of the research: A review  93 9.3  Limitations in study  94 9.4  Recommendations for future work  95 10  References  97 11  Appendix  100
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