| Title |
An In-depth Study on Applying Metric Weighting to Space Syntax |
| Authors |
Kim, Minseok ; Piao, Gensong |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5659/JAIK_PD.2018.34.12.49 |
| Keywords |
Spatial Analysis ; Space Syntax ; Metric-Weighting ; Combined Depth of Distance & Step ; Segmented Axial Map |
| Abstract |
Applying metric(distance) factor as weighting to spatial syntax is known to not contribute to the explanatory power for the human movement behavior as compared to the geometric(angle) factor according to the negative results of several related studies. However, Kim & Piao (2017) assumed that there is not a problem of the metric factor itself but a problem of the way of applying the metric factor as weighting, and presented a new possibility of the metric factor as weighting by proposing and verifying the methods of applying the metric weighting, which are different from the existing ones. The purpose of this study is to propose advanced methods of applying the metric weighting to space syntax, and to verify whether they contribute to the improvement of explanatory power of space syntax analysis. In this paper, we propose functions for combined depth of distance-step that combine the distance-weighted depth function with the step depth function and apply them to axial segment analysis to check the improvement of explanatory power of them. |