Public open spaces such as parks and green spaces are key built environment elements
within neighbourhoods for encouraging a variety of physical activity behaviours. Over the …

Public Places Urban Spaces provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, theory
and practices of urban design for those new to the subject and for those requiring a clear …

There is an emerging consensus that urban street layouts should be planned with greater
attention to 'placemaking'and urban design quality, while maintaining the conventional …

The purpose of this article is to provide a background to the analytical techniques and
related terminology used commonly in space syntax studies. The basic premises of space …

Correlations are regularly found in space syntax studies between graph-based
configurational measures of street networks, represented as lines, and observed movement …

Space syntax research has found that spatial configuration alone explains a substantial
proportion of the variance between aggregate human movement rates in different locations …

The'centre'of a settlement, whether city, town or village, usually means a concentration and
mix of land uses and activities in a prominent location. At any point in time, it is usually fairly …

Accessibility indicates the ease of reaching many destinations from many origins in the
urban network at various scales of space. It plays an important role in determining the …

Urban design has always been a challenging task and will remain one because of its
inherent complexities and the diversity of the issues that are associated with it. A competent …

A common objection to the space syntax analysis of cities is that even in its own terms the
technique of using a nonuniform line representation of space and analysing it by measures …