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AuthorMajor, Mark David
AuthorMirincheva, Velina
AuthorTannous, Heba O.
Available date2020-08-12T09:32:57Z
Publication Date2019
Publication Name12th International Space Syntax Symposium, SSS 2019
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URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10576/15480
AbstractIt is difficult to describe Middle Eastern settlements due to several geographical, physical, functional, cultural, and temporal factors. Despite this, it seems apparent that spatio-formal processes characterise their emergent urban pattern in the same way as other cities of the world (Hillier, 1996; Major, 2018). The paper examines the spatial structure of Metropolitan Doha, Qatar. It argues the deformed wheel spatial structure, initially emerging as a (first law) consequence of restricted random aggregation based on simple rules of adjacency and permeability, at some point transforms into design replication of a (third law) spatial strategy based on cultural intent (Hillier, 1989). The paper analyses Doha neighborhoods and notional plan models to illustrate the implications of this spatial strategy described as hierarchal separation by linear integration. It concludes this spatio-formal process represents a distillation of Hillier and Hanson's (1984) deformed wheel spatial structure in its purest form.
SponsorQatar University
Languageen
PublisherBeijing JiaoTong University
SubjectAggregation
Cultural
Middle East
Replication
Urban
TitleUrban transformations: From restricted random aggregation to designed cultural intent in Middle Eastern Cities
TypeConference Paper
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