Accessibility and Street Layout Exploring spatial equity in

school, sport fields and separated pedestrian paths are located in the middle. To ensure
a proper level of safety, traffic separation have been strongly persuaded which
considerably affected the spatial organizations of the neighbourhoods. Apart from
peripheral car access in the larger layout, tunnels and bridges are recurrent images in
all suburban areas where pedestrians can walk through neighbourhood without passing
across any motorway. Another aspect of traffic regulation is to keep one side of
housing blocks green and car free whereas the other side is likely reserved for parking.
The spatial organization of suburban areas is shaped by housing enclaves arranged
around a local centre where subway station and communal facilities are located. The
entire neighbourhood is then surrounded by natural green areas and motorways provide
car access from the periphery. Therefore at local this is the Centrum which supports
the daily life and contributes to the perception of the neighbourhood space.
As a norm it was considered that multi-story houses must be placed with distance of
500 meters from the local centre whereas terrace or single family houses arranged in
a distance between 500 to 900 meters from the Centrum and subway station. Diagrams
below schematically depict the conceived spatial organization of suburban
neighbourhoods. But it raises a question which is central to this thesis. How this
norm is realized on the ground? Have the residents gained the advantage of living
within that predicted distance? In this connection other questions were raised concerning
how street layout as the main contributor to the movement of people in
urban space takes shape in design process.
The summary of the empirical investigations are presented in the following statements.
- Through space syntax analysis 2 type of integration cores can be recognized.
Rinkeby seems to have a grid core where as the cores of other two cases to some
degree imply a wheel shape core.
- Under space syntax analysis the case studies have been found to have a low
integration globally. It the other word, in terms of general accessibility the examined
spatial organizations are evaluated to be weak and inaccessible.
- Under route analysis, the cases studies are indicated by high degree of depth,
and relatively low degree of connectivity and continuity. These properties are
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