Hillier, B.;
Iida, S.;
(2005)
Network and psychological effects in
urban movement.
In: Cohn, A.G. and Mark, D.M., (eds.)
Proceedings of Spatial Information Theory: International Conference, COSIT 2005,Ellicottsville, N.Y., U.S.A.,September 14-18, 2005.
(pp. pp. 475-490).
Springer-Verlag: Berlin, Germany.
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Abstract
Correlations are regularly found in space syntax studies between graph-based configurational measures of street networks, represented as lines, and observed movement patterns. This suggests that topological and geometric complexity are critically involved in how people navigate urban grids. This has caused difficulties with orthodox urban modelling, since it has always been assumed that insofar as spatial factors play a role in navigation, it will be on the basis of metric distance. In spite of much experimental evidence from cognitive science that geometric and topological factors are involved in navigation, and that metric distance is unlikely to be the best criterion for navigational choices, the matter has not been convincingly resolved since no method has existed for extracting cognitive information from aggregate flows. Within the space syntax literature it has also remained unclear how far the correlations that are found with syntactic variables at the level of aggregate flows are due to cognitive factors operating at the level of individual movers, or they are simply mathematically probable network effects, that is emergent statistical effects from the structure of line networks, independent of the psychology of navigational choices. Here we suggest how both problems can be resolved, by showing three things: first, how cognitive inferences can be made from aggregate urban flow data and distinguished from network effects; second by showing that urban movement, both vehicular and pedestrian, are shaped far more by the geometrical and topological properties of the grid than by its metric properties; and third by demonstrating that the influence of these factors on movement is a cognitive, not network, effect.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Network and psychological effects in urban movement |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/11556114_30 |
| Publisher version: | http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=arti... |
| Language: | English |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1232 |
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