One good example of a syntactic examination of Lynch's work is by Ruth Conroy Dalton and Sonit Bafna, delivered at the last London syntax symposium:
Conroy Dalton R., and Bafna S. (2003) The Syntactical Image of the City: A Reciprocal Definition of Spatial Elements and Spatial Syntaxes. In: Hanson J. ed 4th International Space Syntax Symposium UCL, London 59.51-59.23. Download from http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/1104/
- Laura
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From: Penn, Alan [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 23 February 2012 18:42
Subject: Re: Urbanopticon - Quiz on how well you know London
Daniele,
I think that research has gone quite a way forward on the measures of visibility, imageability and intelligibility side of things (not least in the space syntax field). GIS has done wonders for being able to get hold of data to analyse and there have been many different relevant approaches, work on viewsheds in landscapes etc. including a number of people looking to reproduce Lynch's findings. A lot also from cognitive science that I would think is relevant.
I am less familiar with the 'well-being' side of the equation, but suspect that this must be much more difficult to pin down - it must be very multifactorial (even more so than 'health' which is notoriously hard to handle). My guess is that the whole thing will be hedged around with all sorts of autocorrelations - wellbeing, relating to health and to inequalities, both of these related to poverty, wealth and education - all in interesting and complex ways some going in counter intuitive opposite directions. e.g.. people dying of cancer saying that they feel 'well' versus people with head colds saying that they 'at deaths door', poor people being happy and rich unhappy etc. All also strongly patterned spatially so some real underlying issues of cause and effect in trying to unpack any association. There is a lot of work going on on this of course - Cameron's happiness agenda, Marmot's health inequalities etc. but I have not heard of anything approaching a consensus or even a sense of direction.
All the best,
Alan
On 23 Feb 2012, at 16:37, Daniele Quercia wrote:
> Kerstin, thanks for sending the email out. And thank you all for
> playing the game!
>
> We are modifying the site as I (literally) type ;) We have added a
> description of the project and will shortly add commenting features
> (thanks, Irene)
>
> We have also downplayed the link between well-being and
> recognizability. Thanks, Alan. It would be great to know whether
> research has gone beyond Lynch's book "The image of the city"
>
> A full description is here
> http://urbanopticon.org/release.html
>
> Any other comment is welcome!
>
> - daniele
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~dq209/
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