Urban design is the process of designing and shaping the physical forms of cities, towns,
and suburbs. It involves the arrangement and design of street systems, groups of buildings …

This study attempted to investigate the influence of social interactions on behavioral patterns
of the people in urban spaces. Accordingly, a combination of empirical axial line and …

The Springer Geography series seeks to publish a broad portfolio of scientific books, aiming
at researchers, students, and everyone interested in geographical research. The series …

Location factors are vital elements for describing housing price variation. However, limited
studies have explicitly illustrated the relationship between urban design and the …

Urban planning and design have a considerable impact on the economic performance of
cities and on the quality of life of the population. Efficiency at this level is hampered by the …

In an age where citizens are connected in an endless city of intertwining social, transport
and communications networks, there is a need for space syntax analysis to look beyond the …

In this chapter, I describe space syntax, a recent configurational approach to urban
morphological studies that shows some conceptual similarities to the network analysis of …

This contribution investigates the correlation between street noise levels and the spatial
configuration of the street network in four different types of neighbourhoods in the Algerian …

Designing Public Spaces in Hospitals illustrates that in addition to their aesthetic function,
public spaces in hospitals play a fundamental role concerning people's satisfaction and …

The study proposes a novel method for modeling traffic volumes at the road segment level of
large-scale urban road networks. This study has been placed in a milieu where existing …