Comparative study of the correlation between the spatial configuration and its visual quality with the modalities of use

Taous Messaoudi (), Saïd Mazouz and Bernard Fritsch ()
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Taous Messaoudi: Nantes Univ - Nantes Université, Nantes Univ - IGARUN - Institut de Géographie et d'Aménagement Régional de l'Université de Nantes - Nantes Université - pôle Humanités - Nantes Univ - Nantes Université, ESO - Espaces et Sociétés - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UM - Le Mans Université - UA - Université d'Angers - UR2 - Université de Rennes 2 - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - Nantes Univ - IGARUN - Institut de Géographie et d'Aménagement Régional de l'Université de Nantes - Nantes Université - pôle Humanités - Nantes Univ - Nantes Université - Institut Agro Rennes Angers - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement, OEB - Université Larbi-Ben-Mhidi [Oum-El-Bouaghi, Algeria], GTU - Institut de Gestion des Techniques Urbaines - OEB - Université Larbi-Ben-Mhidi [Oum-El-Bouaghi, Algeria]
Saïd Mazouz: OEB - Université Larbi-Ben-Mhidi [Oum-El-Bouaghi, Algeria]
Bernard Fritsch: Nantes Univ - Nantes Université

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Abstract: Large high-rise housing estates share a common history whose geographical context does not seem to be relevant. They are today, in the same way as the populations who inhabit them, often equated with delinquency and lack of safety. The present research attempts to go beyond the preconceptions inherited from sociology and the prejudices amplified by the media and aims to investigate the urban reality of three large housing complexes resulting from successive development policies adopted in Algeria. To do this, the context chosen is that of Bejaia's suburbs, an average southern Mediterranean city, and a representative sample of cities of its size. The approach refers to Hillier, who considers mobility as the modality use that most likely to inform us about the potential uses of spaces (Hillier et.al 1984). This modality is itself guided by vision, which leads us to scrutinize any variation in visible space that may influence it, particularly the angles of deviation of routes, the degrees of openness of spaces and their overall three-dimensional properties. It is based on the study of the urban landscape's qualities and the modalities of use, by using the combined methods of syntactic analysis and analysis of visible environments by PixScape©. The results of these two analyses will be confronted with reality through a survey of the uses of the people who use these places. The findings show a strong concordance between the quality of the visual landscape, its topological and morphological variations in three dimensions, and the actual usage patterns.

Keywords: visibility analysis.; landscape; urban planning; large housing estates; Space syntax (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-09-12
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Published in 13th Space Syntax Symposium, Jun 2022, Bergen (NO), Norway. 2022, 978-82-93677-67-3

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