To supplement, what makes a city imagineable or legible is the
underlying scaling or living structure of far more small things than
large ones geometrically, or far more less connected things than well
connected ones topologically, or far more meaningless things than
meaningful ones semantically. This living structure or wholeness is
defined as a recursive structure mathematically, and it exists in space
and matter physically. Alexander also called it life or beauty.
Importantly all these seemingly subject concepts can be measured and
quantified by "beautimeter" - the mathematical model of wholeness:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/272159333_Wholeness_as_a_Hierarchical_Graph_to_Capture_the_Nature_of_Space
On 10/18/2016 10:30 AM, Bin Jiang wrote:
> A quick reflection:
>
> As far as I see, Kevin Lynch's image of the city is unnecessary, if
> Alexander's theory of centers can be fully comprehended. So called
> imagineablity, legibility, vitality, beauty, life, and wholeness all can
> be interchangeably used to refer to the recursive structure than can be
> measured and quantified.
>
> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230802698_The_Image_of_the_City_Out_of_the_Underlying_Scaling_of_City_Artifacts_or_Locations
>
>
> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/296396310_A_Complex-Network_Perspective_on_Alexander%27s_Wholeness
>
>
> I have no intention whatsoever to devalue Lynch's work, simply
> Alexander's work is so profound that it can act as a general framework
> for understanding many urban issues including the image of the city.
>
> Thanks and cheers.
>
> Bin
>
> On 10/18/2016 1:00 AM, Martin Tomko wrote:
>> Dear Sharon,
>> The attachments did not make it through, so it is hard to comment on
>> the particularities.
>>
>> But as you mention Lynch as your significant literature, allude to
>> different modes of transport, and maybe are after some more nuanced
>> analysis, I thought the following two papers may be of help/interest:
>>
>> Formalising Lynch, and relating this to a multi-modal /adaptive view
>> of the city form:
>> - Tomko, M., & Winter, S. (2013). Describing the Functional Spatial
>> Structure of Urban Environments. Computers, Environment and Urban
>> Systems, 41, 177-187.
>> doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2013.05.002 , preprint
>> http://wp.me/a1WcrN-2w
>>
>> Linking street structure to experience:
>> - Tomko, M., Winter, S., & Claramunt, C. (2008). Experiential
>> Hierarchies of Streets. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems,
>> 32(1), 41-52.
>> http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0198971507000221
>> Preprint:
>> https://martintomko.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/tomko07experiential_preprint.pdf
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Martin
>>
>>
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