Untitled - Malaysian Institute of Planners

Saniah Ahmad Zaki & Jamalunlaili AbdullahThe Relationship Between Variations of Grid Layout and Burglarynorth of Area 1. Similar dark colour lines border the sides (east and west) of thisarea.Regression analyses were then performed to determine the significance ofsyntactic variables, and the strength of relationship between burglary rate andthe syntactic variables. Nevertheless, the results of the analyses showed onlyradius n (global integration) indicates a strong relationship with burglary ratewith an r-squared of 0.713 and a p-value of 0.0346. The remaining syntacticalvariables were weakly related.The graph (Fig. 2) shows that burglary rate is high in areas in which thelayout that is highly connected to the whole system. The more globallyintegrated an area, the more vulnerable it is to burglary.Table 2: Burglary rate in six case study areas compared against spatial syntactic variablesAreasBurg/1000 Radius n (global Radius 3 (localhouses integration) integration)Conn Intell Synergy1 32 0.83 2.58 4.77 0.43 0.362 23 0.77 2.27 4.01 0.47 0.233 30 0.80 1.88 3.26 0.56 0.304 18 0.80 2.19 3.32 0.57 0.135 16 0.69 2.07 3.46 0.23 0.176 11 0.66 2.05 3.52 0.29 0.16Note:Conn - connectivityIntell - intelligibility© 2012 by MIP 30