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Finding The Logic Of Location: An Analysis Of The Distribution Pattern Of Urban Activities In The City Of Colombo With Space Syntax

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dc.contributor.author Munaisnghe, JN
dc.contributor.author Bandara, A
dc.date.accessioned 2022-09-06T05:33:24Z
dc.date.available 2022-09-06T05:33:24Z
dc.date.issued 2020-11
dc.identifier.issn 2012-6301 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/18936
dc.description.abstract The self-organized order of the types, scales, and locations of different activities in urban areas has throughout been a matter of concern for planning. In order to regulate ‘unplanned’ distribution of activities in urban areas, planning authorities used different tools, of which zoning is still the most popular. However, except under heavily regimented conditions, zoning has continuously failed to withstand the forces that empowered urban activities to find their preferred locations in an urban area. Hence, planners need more strategic approaches than conventional methods in order to deal with the location dynamics of urban activities. In this regard, a comprehensive understanding on space appropriation by urban activities and the methods in which such understanding can be effectively integrated into planning strategies, are essential in planners. In a context where the available theories were limited in serving for this purpose, the Space Syntax method provides planners with a more convincing method to analyze and simulate spatial dynamics of urban areas, relating to ‘spatial integration’, which is an attribute that emerges from the overall configuration of the physical environment. Using this method, this study explored the potential relationship between the location choices of different urban activity types, and the level of spatial integration of their current locations within the core area of the city of Colombo. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Faculty of Architecture University of Moratuwa en_US
dc.subject Spatial Integration en_US
dc.subject Location Choices
dc.subject Appropriation
dc.subject Urban Activities
dc.title Finding The Logic Of Location: An Analysis Of The Distribution Pattern Of Urban Activities In The City Of Colombo With Space Syntax en_US
dc.type Article-Full-text en_US
dc.identifier.year 2020 en_US
dc.identifier.journal Research Journal of the Faculty of Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.issue 01 en_US
dc.identifier.volume 07 en_US
dc.identifier.pgnos 75-86 en_US
dc.identifier.email jagathnm@uom.lk en_US
dc.identifier.email toaruna@gmail.com en_US


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