Spatial sustainability in cities: organic patterns and sustainable forms

摘要: Because the complexity of cities seems to defy description, planners and urban designers have always been forced work with simplified concepts city. Drawn from natural language, these concepts emphasize clear hierarchies, regular geometries separation parts wholes, all seemingly at variance less orderly most real cities. Such are now dominating debate about sustainability in Here it is argued that space syntax has now brought light key underlying structures city, which have a direct bearing on in that they seem show spatial form self-organised as foreground network of linked centres all scales set into background mainly residential space, already a reflection relations between environmental, economic socio-cultural forces, is between three domains sustainability. Evidence this so drawn from recent new research, concept proposed focused the structure primary structure street network.