Rivers as integration devices in cities

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ID21226348
AutoresEhsan Abshirini (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, autor correspondente), Daniel Koch (0000-0002-4539-1346, KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
Ano2016
Volume3
Fascículo1
Data de publicação2016-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCity, Territory and Architecture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2195-2701 • E-ISSN: 2195-2701
EditoraSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1186/s40410-016-0030-4
OpenAlexW2268582922
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas27

As dynamic systems rivers and cities have been in interaction under changing relations over time, and the morphology of many cities has risen through a long and steady struggle between the city functions and the river system flowing inside. This makes river cities an interesting case to study how the presence of geographical features interacts with spatial morphology in the formation of cities. The basis of this research is enabled by utilizing a novel model for cross-city comparison presented by Hillier in his Santiago keynote in 2012 called a “star model”. This is done on large samples of cities investigating concurrent configurations, as well as how the properties in this star model react to specific forms of disturbance. Results illustrate that the foreground network as identified through maximum choice values in cities are more vital to the structure of cities than the bridges. The overall syntactic structure tends to retain its character (degree of distributedness) and the location of its foreground network (which street segments constitute the foreground network) even when bridges are targeted. Furthermore, counter to the initial hypothesis, river cities tend to change less than non-river cities after targeted disturbance of the systems. Finally, the results show that while there is a statistical morphological difference between river cities and non-river cities, this difference is not directly explained through the bridges. Integrating space syntax with statistical and geospatial analysis can throw light on the way in which the properties of city networks and urban structure reflect the relative effect of rivers on the morphology of river cities. The paper, finally, contributes through offering one piece of a better perception of the structure of river-cities that can support strategies of river-cities interaction as well as enhance our knowledge on the constraints and limits to that interaction

Cartography · Civil engineering · Economic geography · Geography · Geospatial analysis · Network structure · Physical geography · Regional science · Space syntax · Street network · Syntax · Urban Morphology · Urban planning · Computer Science · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Mathematics · Urban Design and Spatial Analysis · Urban Green Space and Health · Artificial Intelligence · Geology · Theoretical Computer Science