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Relating Urban Morphologies To Movement Potentials Over Time: A diachronic study with Space Syntax of Liverpool, UK

O'Brien, J; Griffiths, S; (2017) Relating Urban Morphologies To Movement Potentials Over Time: A diachronic study with Space Syntax of Liverpool, UK. In: Heitor, T and Serra, M and Pinelo Silva, J and Bacharel, M and Cannas da Silva, L, (eds.) Proceedings of the 11th International Space Syntax Symposium. (pp. 98.1-98.11). Instituto Superior Técnico: Portugal. Green open access

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Abstract

In this paper we describe our observations of Liverpool’s (UK) syntactical patterning relating to its urban network growth from 1850s to the present day. Liverpool’s rapid growth and transformation provides a compelling case study of network configurations as they relate to movement potentials over time. We argue that syntactical analysis of movement potentials provides a tool for evidencing urban historical socio-spatial patterning. Urban patterning might be shaped variously by historical factors such as socio-economic inequalities, labour divisions, ethnicities or religious denominations. We have attempted to demonstrate how movement potentials have persisted normatively along structural path-dependencies that underpin these patterns. We based our study on samples of three prominent centralities of Princes Avenue, Scotland Road and Canning Place, across four periods: 1850s, 1890s, 1950s and contemporary. We prepared Depthmap data samples using an arrayed visualization format, which allowed us to make comparative observations of movement potentials as they converge and intersect across various urban scales. This has allowed us to generate ‘internal’ perspectives on configurations over time, to suggest some possible effects of city-scale morphologies on local spatial dynamics.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Relating Urban Morphologies To Movement Potentials Over Time: A diachronic study with Space Syntax of Liverpool, UK
Event: SSS11: 11th International Space Syntax Symposium, 3-7 July 2017, Lisbon, Portugal
ISBN-13: 9789729899447
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: http://www.11ssslisbon.pt/proceedings/
Language: English
Additional information: This is the published version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Urban morphology, movement potential, Liverpool, Space Syntax, urban history
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1566798
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