Law, S;
Shen, Y;
Yang, T;
Karimi, K;
Penn, A;
(2022)
Local Modularity, a measure that characterises street neighbourhood connectivity.
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Proceedings 13th International Space Syntax Symposium, SSS 2022.
(pp. pp. 1-12).
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Abstract
Recent research in space syntax has shown the use of community detection methods on the street network dual graph can identify isolated local areas. Leveraging on this characteristic, we propose a new measure called local modularity that tries to capture street neighbourhood connectedness. We examine the measure visually for a number of cities where we found the measure can identify more neighbourhood connectivity. We also then validated the measure by running a network stability experiment where we simulate a network under different forms of attacks; a random attack scenario versus a targeted attack scenario. We found more stable behaviour when removing streets that have higher neighbourhood connectivity than attacking the same network randomly. These results have implications on the spatial design and planning of neighbourhoods and in measuring community severances.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
|---|---|
| Title: | Local Modularity, a measure that characterises street neighbourhood connectivity |
| Event: | SSS 2022 - 13th International Space Syntax Symposium |
| ISBN-13: | 9788293677673 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://www.hvl.no/en/research/conference/13sss/pr... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Connectivity, Community detection, neighbourhoods, space syntax, street network |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Geography |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10163347 |
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