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Category Archives: Space Syntax
Are streets the answer – yes, but…
Yesterday’s launch by think tank Policy Exchange of a report calling for the removal of inner-city high rise estates and their replacement with streets is a welcome contribution to discussions about the design of future cities. The report, authored by … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Cities, Development, Economic, Future Cities, Health, Planning, Social, Space Syntax, Spatial layout, Urbanism
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Vince Cable visits Space Syntax
Yesterday, UK Secretary of State for Business, Vince Cable, visited the Space Syntax London studio. Here’s a summary of the visit on Storify.
Posted in Architecture, Economic, EPSRC, Future Cities, Performance, Press article, Space Syntax
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Smart Cities World Expo – speaking notes
Spatial layout influences Human behaviour: 1. Movement 2. Awareness 3. Interaction 4. Transaction. Spatial layout benefits 1. Economy - productivity - innovation – building & campus performance 2. Health – active travel – access to healthcare – building & campus performance 3. … Continue reading
Research into practice
At a conference where almost every speaker has been concerned about the delay of getting academic research into practice. One proposed solution is open access. No doubt there are other ideas. The problem is that the research-into-practice paradigm is wrong. … Continue reading
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Quality Streetscapes Conference notes
My slides This first part of this presentation introduces a new approach to valuing urban design – one which allows design decisions to be embedded in real estate valuation calculations. The approach connects design to the rateable value of retail, … Continue reading
Future Cities_Cities of Transaction
Thinking about the future of cities is not a new challenge. From Christopher Wren’s plan for the post-fire rebuilding of London in 1666 to Ebenezer Howards’s Garden City concept, to Le Corbusier, to Bladerunner, human ingenuity has been tasked with … Continue reading
Notes for AGI Conference talk: Measure, map, model, make
My slides Great placemaking is a process combining art and science. There is a place for both and indeed a need for both. Two problems. First, urban planning is largely an analogue discipline. Too many diagrams and watercolours. Not enough … Continue reading
Goodbye spacesyntax.org hello spacesyntax.net
After a decade of earnest, if occasionally erratic, service the spacesytax.org website has been retired. Designed to serve the community of space syntax researchers, .org created the first place online that brought together the various strands of space syntax academic … Continue reading
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AoU Landscape Urbanism notes & questions
These notes accompany a PowerPoint presentation Fragmented urbanism: the rise of Landscape Urbanism & the threat it poses to the continuously connected city TS intro This is a crucial moment for urbanism. In the UK, The Portas Review, highlighting the … Continue reading
London Riots discussion at #lonconf
Darah Singh Groups of rioters: 1. Motivators – of rioting 2. Aggressors – towards police 3. Late night shoppers Simeon Riots gave people unusual opportunities for power and control. Abnormal empowerment. David Lammy MP The risks of social & economic … Continue reading
London Policy Conference – don’t turn your back on housing
These notes accompany a PowerPoint presentation. Good morning. 1. Connectivity is an issue that has come up several times already at this London Policy Conference. As an architect and town planner, my interest is in the influence of physical connectivity … Continue reading
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Animation – London’s Spatial Accessibility
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Approaching large scale urban design schemes
On Friday I gave a presentation at a Design Council CABE event, “Inside Design Review”. My talk, “Approaching large scale urban design schemes“, sets out a framework for thinking about the complexity of major urban development proposals.
Spatial accessibility in London
Two areas of central London (Camden top and Whitechapel bottom), showing the spatial accessibility of the vehicle network from high (red then orange) to low (green then blue).
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EPSRC Innovate 11: Working with universities
London, 11th October 2011 Tim Stonor Opportunities & barriers Intro Space Syntax Limited an SME working in the Creative Industries, specifically architecture and urban planning. A consulting company. Engaging in projects from high value real estate developments in the City … Continue reading
London’s spatial layout
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London’s riots – can architecture cause social malaise?
My company, Space Syntax Limited, has released the first findings of a study into the 2011 London Riots. Described by Polly Curtis in The Guardian as “the most concrete evidence I think there is linking the summer’s riots to estates” … Continue reading
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London Riots location analysis – first findings
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Measuring & modelling cities
11th May 2011 2011 Urban Systems Symposium NYU Shack Institute of Real Estate, New York Download presentation
