Development of new indexes of the ‘Generic City’ in the Baltic coastal city network
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2023
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Lodz University of Technology Press
Wydawnictwo Politechniki Łódzkiej
Wydawnictwo Politechniki Łódzkiej
Abstrakt
The concept of ‘Generic City’ is used in space syntax to model the levels of functioning of cities – interactions, flows, impacts of spatial, urban, and territorial structures and organisations. The traditionally associated indexes of ‘Choice’ and ‘Integration’ provide additional possibilities for comparison and classification of urban structures in a context where public policymaking requires more knowledge about cities in terms of connectivity, centrality, accessibility, etc. In this article, we extend the application of the ‘Generic City’ concept, originally designed for cities, to the coastal regions of the Baltic countries –Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. New indexes are being experimented to highlight ‘foreground’ and ‘background’ networksand better reflect the local peculiarities of Baltic urban structures, whose evolution is dependent on political and economicfactors of the last decades. Their robustness is tested by Spearman and Pearson's correlations with human activity data.The results show that for a limited radius of 1 km, the ‘Betweenness’ and ‘Length’ indexes perform best in describingthe ‘background’ network. For an unlimited radius, the correlations with the ‘Network Quantity Penalized by Distance’ indexare robust to validate the ‘foreground’ network model. The results highlight the need to normalise the indexes to comparenetworks of different sizes.
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space syntax, Generic City model, foreground network, background network, Baltic countries, składnia przestrzeni, model Generic City, sieć pierwszego planu, sieć tła, kraje bałtyckie
Cytowanie
Gloaguen T., Zaleckis K., Gadal S., Development of new indexes of the ‘Generic City’ in the Baltic coastal city network. W: XXIX International Seminar on Urban Form. ISUF 2022 Urban Redevelopment and Revitalisation. A Multidisciplinary Perspective. 6th June – 11th September 2022, Łódź–Kraków, Kantarek A.A. (Ed.), Hanzl M. (Ed.), Figlus T. (Ed.), Musiaka Ł. (Ed.)., Lodz University of Technology Conference Proceedings No. 2554, Lodz University of Technology Press, Lodz 2023, p. 365-379, ISBN 978-83-67934-03-9, DOI: 10.34658/9788367934039.29.