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Place Syntax Analysis of Rinkeby
Place Syntax Tool is an accessibility analysis tool which measures different parameters
related to accessibility by using the axial map. Therefore axial map of each study area
along with map of unlinks points have to prepared prior to conducting any analysis.
Map of unlinks is an issue of technical procedures in performing Place Syntax Tool.
This map pinpoints those intersections in the axial map which are shown in the plan
but corresponding streets do not intersect in reality. Examples of these situation are
bridges or tunnels where two lines of movement are located at different levels and
therefore access from one to the other is not possible through the intersection.
I have used Place Syntax Tool in order to conduct a detailed measurement of accessibility
of every address point to the Centrum of in each neighbourhood. Measurements
have been achieved in two ways: metric distance and syntactic distance.
Metric distance is physical distance measured in actual network distance. Syntactic
measurement concerns number of turns to be taken from every address points to
the Centrum of study area. In the following the results of the analysis of Rinkeby
are discussed.
Figure 5.3 depicts the address points coloured according to their metric distance to
the Centrum. As the legend tells a number of 308 houses out of 723 are located in
a distance more than 500 meters to the Centrum which is 42.6 % of the all address
points. It picks out that 156 of those 308 houses are allocated further than 650 meters
in actual network distance from the Centrum which attain a percentage of 21.5
of all houses. By considering 500 meter distance as a rule to follow in the original
planning it apparently seems that the rule has not been properly realized.
In the other map address points are coloured on the basis of syntactic distance. (Figure
5.4). Houses are divided in 5 groups according to number of required turns ranging
from 0 to 10 syntactic steps which is a very telling picture regarding accessibility.
Colours vary from red to blue in the sense the warmer colours indicate less turns to
take while the colder ones signify more turns. A glance at the map legend provides
important facts about the area. A great number of houses have been categorized
in the group ‘4 to 6’ turns including more than half of all address points. It is also
important to consider groups with ‘6 to 8’ turns and ‘8 to 10’ turns. We recognize
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