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| 100 | _aMajumdar, Arindam | ||
| 245 | 0 | _aExploring the relationship between urban road layout, urban form and economic activities using space syntax - a case of Ahmedabad city (Also available CD) | |
| 260 | _c2009 | ||
| 300 | _a102p.,CD-ROM | ||
| 505 | _aCONTENTSExecutive 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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| 700 | _aZuidgeest, Mark (Guide) | ||
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