PNUM 2013

Conferências Olhares sobre o Território

International Conference on “Changing Cities: Spatial, morphological, formal & socio-economic dimensions"

Dear Colleagues,

We have the pleasure to invite you to the International Conference on “Changing Cities: Spatial, morphological, formal & socio-economic dimensions”, which will take place on Skiathos island, Greece, 18-21 June 2013. The conference is organized by the Department of Planning and Regional Development, University of Thessaly, in collaboration with the Technical Chamber of Greece.

The main conference goal is to present and appoint issues related to “Metropolitan cities in transformation”, regarding to: Urban Design in Planning, Architectural Design & New Technologies, Sustainable Urban Planning & Development, Urban Cultures & Public Open Spaces, Urban Landscapes, Landscape Planning & Design, Historical Centers & Built Heritage Management, Transportation Planning and Policy in cities, Urban Planning Laws, Real Estate & Property Rights, Environmental Urban Planning, Green Architecture & Urban
Design, Urban Economic Development, Place Marketing & City Branding, Shrinking cities, Divided cities, Migration, multinational and multicultural societies & Urban Planning.

This conference aspires to bring together architects, urban designers, landscape designers, urban planners, urban geographers, urban economists, urban sociologists and demographers, to question new challenges and to become a forum of transaction of ideas on changing cities.

The submitted manuscripts will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee and the authors will be notified on time of the outcome of the evaluation. The manuscripts that will be selected as oral or poster presentations will be
published in hard copy at the conference book of abstracts. Full papers will be published in book format e-proceedings with a separate ISBN number. Details for the full paper preparation will be given to authors after notification of paper acceptance.

The organizing committee is in contact with international scientific journals and selected papers from the conference may be published in special issues, after they have been reviewed. The participants will be informed regarding this possibility by e-mail.

All academic researchers, professionals and policy makers interested in the area of the conference are invited to present papers related to the conference topics. Indicate your preference for an oral or poster presentation. Authors are requested to submit abstracts by e-mail as a Word file attachment to the Conference Secretariat, by January 14th, 2013.

More information for the Conference can be found at the webpage:
www.changingcities.prd.uth.gr

Important Dates & Deadlines:

Abstract submission: 14th January, 2013
Notification of acceptance: 15th February, 2013
Full paper submission: 15th March, 2013
Notification of acceptance: 15th April, 2013
Final date for reduced cost registration: 30th April, 2013

Space Syntax Observation Manual

Download from here
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6624822/Vaughan_2001-Observation_procedures_manual.PDF

self-organization in hanoi traffic

hanoi, vietnam, 24feb2009. this is a nice example of self-organization as described by complexity theory. there are no fixed "top-down" laws (i.e. traffic lights), and yet the incredible traffic flows continuously. in complexity terms, the collective motion emerges from the multiple local interactions between the "agents" (drivers and pedestrians), mediated by horn sounds, eye contact, body gestures etc.

Measuring Walking

http://www.measuring-walking.org/index.html

tur(i)ntog​reen internatio​nal student design competitio​n

It is our pleasure to inform you that the Research and Documentation Centre in Technology, Architecture and City in Developing Countries (CRD-PVS) at the Politecnico di Torino organizes tur(i)ntogreen, an International student design competition on urban smart regeneration and agro-housing open to students enrolled in any program/level of Worldwide Academic institutions.

The Competition has been announced on the 5th of September during the World Urban Forum in Naples (Italy) as part of the UN HABITAT  “I’m a city changer” and World Urban Campaigns (http://www.imacitychanger.org/) within the Global Housing Strategy to the Year 2025.

Registrations are open!  Deadlines for entry will be December 21st.
Please visit the official website (www.polito.it/turintogreen).

the tur(i)ntogreen team www.polito.it/turintogreen
 
infoinfo@turintogreen.org
 
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9th INTERNATIONAL SPACE SYNTAX SYMPOSIUM 2013

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<Call for Abstracts>

It is hereby announced that the next international space syntax symposium will be held in Seoul, South Korea, 31 October - 3 November 2013.

The organising committee of the symposium invites any interested parties to submit their papers of original research for presentation at the symposium. Abstracts for your papers can be submitted electronically through the symposium web page which will be opened from 20 October 2012. And also they should:

- Be no longer than 500 words.

- Include at most 5 keywords.

- Indicate to which of the 8 Themes it corresponds.

Paper submission requires a prior submission of abstract, so you may not be able to register papers unless you have the abstract submitted.

Further information on the symposium will be announced continually through this mail base and the symposium web page.

<Symposium Themes>

The symposium especially invites papers on the following themes, while other Space Syntax themes are also certainly welcome.

- Spatial Analysis and Architectural Theory

- Modelling and Methodological Development

- Urban Space and Social, Economic and Cultural Phenomena

- Building Morphology and Performativity

- Architectural Design and Practices

- Historical Evolution of Built Form

- Spatial Cognition and Behaviours

- Green Urbanism and Sustainable Developments

<Calendar>

Below are found the important dates to remember. Note that they may be subject to change. Notices will be made in that case, so please check back often.

10 February 2013 - Last date for abstract submission

26 May 2013 - Last date for paper submission

26 May 2013 - Early registration begins

1 August 2013 - Final notification of acceptance of papers

1 September 2013 - Last date for paper re-submission with correction

1 September 2013 - Early registration ends

21 October 2013 - Paper available on web-site

31 October 2013 - Symposium starts

Bem conectado

Artigo "Well connected" de Mick Hammer disponível em WWW http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg16422124.700-well-connected.html
 
traduzido por Valério Medeiros, Download aqui

Intelligent Cities: Jan Gehl on Community

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DepthmapX 0.26Beta

New version of Depthmap software available here

https://github.com/SpaceGroupUCL/depthmapX/downloads

Objetivos e programa da UC

A Unidade Curricular de SINTAXE ESPACIAL E COMPLEXIDADE tem como objectivo principal a aquisição de conhecimentos para o entendimento da cidade enquanto um sistema complexo e não totalmente previsível.

Tendo como pano de fundo as teorias da complexidade apresentam-se novas abordagens ao desenho urbano numa lógica bottom-up nomeadamente através da teoria da sintaxe espacial que visa examinar as relações entre o espaço e a sociedade a várias escalas e nos três níveis analíticos seguintes: padrões espaciais, vida espacial e vida social.

O programa da UC será.

CP1: Teorias da complexidade aplicadas à cidade: Origens e implicações no planeamento e desenho urbano.

CP2: A cidade como um sistema complexo: A cidade como organismo ou como máquina. Ordem, desordem, planeamento e auto-organização. Abordagens top-down e bottom-up. Árvores e semi-retículas.

CP3: Modelos matemáticos e computacionais como ferramentas de análise, projecto ou simulação de sistemas urbanos complexos: Space syntax, Gramáticas da forma, Cellular autómata, Parametrização, Biomimetismo.

CP4: O espaço-forma das cidades: Concepções tradicionais de espaço. O espaço como questão científica em arquitectura. Espaço e espacialidade. Configuração espacial.

CP5: Sintaxe Espacial - Teoria, tecnologia e prática

CP6: Ferramentas de leitura e representação do espaço: a análise sintática do espaço por meio dos mapas axial e de visibilidade no software Depthmap.

CP7: Técnicas de observação do espaço urbano: mapa vivencial, avaliação pós-ocupação (APO), observação em time-lapse

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The main goal of SPACE SYNTAX AND COMPLEXITY course is the acquisition of knowledge for understanding the city as complex and not completely predictable system.

With a background in the complexity theories this course aims to present new bottom-up urban design theories. These will be addressed essentially using space syntax theories which aim to examine the relations that occur between space and society within different scales and at three analytical levels: spatial patterns, special life and social life.

The syllabus will be:

CP1: Caos and complexity theories applied to the city: origins and implications in the urban design;

CP2: The city as a complex system:  the city as an organism or as a machine. Order, disorder, planning and self-organization. Top-down to bottom-up approaches. Trees and semi-reticules.

CP3: Mathematic and computational models as tools for analyze, design and simulations complex urban systems : space syntax, shape grammar, cellular automata, parametric design, biomimetics

CP4: The city space-shape: traditional conceptions of the space. Space as a scientific issue in architecture. Space and spatiality. Spatial configuration.

CP5: Space syntax: theory, technology and practice.

CP6: Tools for reading and representing space: syntactic analysis by axial maps and visibility maps using Depthmap.
CP7: Techniques to observe public space: living map, pos occupancy evaluation (POE), time-lapse registration process.

Bibliografia

Bibliografia básica

[1]   BENEDIKT, M. L., (1979), “To take hold of space: Isovists and isovistfields" in Environment and PlanningB: Planning and Design 6(1) 47-65.

[2]   BATTY, M. (2001)"Exploring isovist fields: space and shape in architectural and urbanmorphology" in Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 28(1)123 – 150

[3]   HILLIER, Bill (1989) “The architecture of the urban object” in Ekistics, Nº. 334-335 (Janeiro - Abril),pp 5 -21.

[4]   HILLIER, Bill et al. (1993) “Natural movement: or, configuration andattraction in urban pedestrian movement” in Environmentand Planning B, Londres: Pion Publication, v. 20, n.1.

[5]   HILLIER, Bill (2004) Space is the machine, Cambridge University Press. 1ª edição 1984.

[6]   HILLIER, Bill; HANSON, Julienne (1984) The Social Logic of Space, Cambridge University Press.

[7]   HEITOR, Teresa (1996) A vulnerabilidade do espaço em Chelas: uma abordagem sintática. Tese de Doutoramento em Engenharia do Território Lisboa: IST I UTL.

[8]   HOLANDA, Frederico de (2006) Arquiteturasociológica.

[9]   HOLANDA, Frederico de (2002) O espaço de exceção. Brasília: EdUnB.

[10] INTERNATIONAL SPACE SYNTAX SYMPOSIUM

(1997) Artigos disp. em: <http://www.spacesyntax.net/symposia/SSS1/sss1_proceedings.htm >

(1999) Artigos disp.em < http://www.spacesyntax.net/symposia/SSS2/sss2_proceedings.htm >

(2001) Artigos disponíveis em: < http://undertow.arch.gatech.edu/homepages/3sss/ >

(2003) Artigos disponíveis em:< http://www.spacesyntax.net/SSS4.htm>

(2005) Artigos disponíveis em:< http://www.spacesyntax.tudelft.nl >

(2007) Artigos disponíveis em:< http://www.spacesyntaxistanbul.itu.edu.tr >

(2009) Artigos disponíveis em:< http://www.sss7.org/Proceedings.html >

(2011 Artigos disponíveis em:< http://www.sss8.cl/proceedings/ >

[11] MEDEIROS, Valério A. S de (2006) Urbis Brasiliae ou sobre cidades do Brasil. Tese de doutoramento, Programa de Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação da Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de Brasília.

[12] TURNER, A. (2004) Depthmap 4: aresearcher's handbook. Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UniversityCollege London: London, UK.

[13] TURNER, A. et al., (2002), “Encoding natural movement as an agent-based system: an investigation into human pedestrian behavior in built environment" in Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 29, 473-490

[14] PORTUGALI, J. et al., (2012) ComplexityTheories of Cities Have Come of Age, Springer

[15] UCL DEPTHMAP: Spatial Network Analysis Software

[16] Blog da UC Sintaxe Espacial eComplexidade

Bibliografia complementar

[1]     ALEXANDER,Christopher (1965) The City is not a Tree

[2]     ALEXANDER, Christopher et al (1977) A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. Oxford University Press, New York.

[3]     ALEXANDER, Christopher (2003) The Nature of the Order. An Essay on the Art of Building and the Nature of the Universe, Vol 1,2,3 e 4, The Center for Environmental Structure, Berkley California.

[4]     BARABÁSI, A (2009) Linked: How everything is connected to everything else and what it means for business, science, and everyday life, A plume book, USA.

[5]     BATTY, M. & LONGLEY, P.(1994) Fractal Cities: A Geometry of Form and Function. Academic Press.

[6]     BATY, M. et al., (2008) “The Size, Scale, and Shape of Cities”, in Science 319, 769-771

[7]     GEHL, Jan (1987) Life between Buildings. Using Public Space (sixth edition), The Danish Architectural Press, Copenhagen.

[8]   GHEL, Jan (2010) Cities for People. Island Press.

[9]     KOSTOF, Spiro (1999) The city shaped: Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History, Thames and Hudson, London.

[10]     WHITE, William H. (1980) The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces, Project for Public Spaces, New York, 1980.

[11]   Project for Public Spaces (2005) How to turn a place around. A Handbook for Creating Successful Public Spaces. New York.

[12]   CHOAY, Françoise (2003) O urbanismo: utopias e realidades, uma antologia. 5. ed. 2. reimp. São Paulo: Perspectiva

[13]   JACOBS, Jane (1961) The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Vintage Books, New York.

[14]   JACOBS, Jane (1970) The economy of cities. London: Jonathan Cape.

[15]   KOHLSDORF, Maria Elaine (1996) A apreensão da forma da cidade. Brasília: EdUnB.

[16]   LYNCH, Kevin (1997) A imagem da cidade. São Paulo: Martins Fontes.

[17]   LYNCH, Kevin (1981) A theory of good city form. Cambridge/London: The MIT Press.

New IPad app released for Space Syntax researcher​s

App for building level tracking of people.

People Watcher is NOT another axial analysis tool - its a data collection tool.

Demo here
        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgcrvY2aDTA

It has been  created specifically for real-time recording of navigational/wayfinding behaviors in buildings and outdoor environments. This is an App to help researchers, environmental psychologists and architects understand how people navigate in complex environments. You can use it to undertake wayfinding or navigation experiments in buildings (airports, hospitals, train stations etc.). With this App you can only observe the behaviour of a single participant at a time. Use your finger or stylus to trace the participant's path through the environment using the "Map Page". Buttons at the bottom of the "Map Page" facilitate the recording of significant wayfinding behaviours or events (such as pausing, looking at signs or consulting maps). Analytic tools on the "Analysis Page" have been provided to allow you to view all participant-paths simultaneously, i.e. overlaid on each other, in order to rapidly detect patterns or clusters of events (by eye). You can upload your own plans from your photo collection, to a maximum of 9 plans (so, for a multi-level building, a maximum of 9 floors). All paths and events are time-stamped and their location noted in a log file which can be exported via iTunes.

You can down load (assuming you have an IPad handy) following this link to iTunes.
        http://bit.ly/NrsWvy

Measuring Urbanity

International Seminar & Workshop

Lisbon, May 7th-12th 2012

FAUTL - Faculty of Architecture
Technical University of Lisbon

Seminar Measuring Urbanity:
Densities, networks and urban fabrics

The seminar aims at re-centering the debate of measuring urban form on the contemporary issues of designing, planning and regulating the extensive city. The objective is to discuss the importance of combined qualitative-quantitative approaches on the generation of new insights on the contemporary urban environment and planning strategies.

Workshop City Induction:
Urban design with patterns and rules

The workshop focuses on a new method for urban design which is based on the use of patterns and design rules. The aim of the method is to facilitate dialogue between the different participants in the design process and enable the developmetn of flexible urban plans. It is opened to anyone interested in developing advanced skills in parametric urban design.

How to live in a city

Roads unfit (part 1) and fit (part 2) for people

8º International SPACE SYNTAX Symposium

The EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL SPACE SYNTAX SYMPOSIUM was held in Santiago de Chile at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile between Tuesday 3rd and Friday 6th of January 2012.

The aims of the SSS_8 were:
1. To bring together members of the space syntax community to share recent work and theoretical and methodological issues.
2. To exchange ideas and research with neighbouring disciplines in the pursuit of common research goals.
3. To invite practitioners in the fields of urban design and architecture and space related disciplines.

The Social Life of Small Public Spaces, William Whyte

William H. Whyte: The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces - The Street Corner