Geographic Information Systems in Design and Social Sciences

PERVER K BARAN

Park Recreation and Tourism Management

William R SmithDepartment of Sociology and Anthropology

NC STATE UNIVERSITY

Spatial Configuration, Land Use Patterns and Vehicular Movement in Cary, NC:

A Comparative Analysis 1989, 1994, and 2002

PERVER K BARANPark Recreation and Tourism Management

Umut TokerGraduate - PhD in Design Program

How urban form relates to pedestrian and vehicular movement patterns?

Traditional Origin-Destination Approach:

• Characterizes the problem in terms of flows to and from “attractor” land uses (i.e. shopping malls)

Land use•Pedestrian flow

•Vehicular flow

How urban form relates to pedestrian and vehicular movement patterns?

Configurational – Space Syntax Approach:

• Characterizes the problem in terms of how the “spatial configuration” of urban form relates to pedestrian and vehicular movement patterns

Configurational Accessibility

Attractive Land Uses

multiplier effect

More Human Space Use

• Pedestrian flow

• Vehicular flow

Configurational Accessibility - Permeability

• Non-metric and non-geometric ‘configurational properties of space • The ease of physical movement through a district• The number of alternative routes running through a district• Where people can go and cannot go

Configurational Analysis

Axial Map

Identified geometrically by drawing the longest straight line possible before the line hits a building, wall, etc.

Configurational Accessibility

Cary 1989

GIS Database

Spatial configuration measures global integration, local integration, connectivity

Land use and density

Traffic counts

 Project Proposal Submitted to NSF

  Perver K Baran

Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management 

William R SmithDepartment of Sociology and Anthropology

Hugh A Devine Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management

 Jacqueline M Hughes-Oliver

Department of Statistics

Deborah L WeiselPolitical Science and Public Administration

An Integrative Social-Spatial Analysis of Crime

An Integrative Social-Spatial Analysis of Crime

Study Objective

Develop an integrative social-spatial approach to study how social and economic factors interact with the built environment to influence risk and vulnerability to crime in an urban environment