Spatial modelling Category
London Riots discussion at #lonconf
Posted on December 15, 2011 Leave a Comment
Darah Singh Groups of rioters: 1. Motivators – of rioting 2. Aggressors – towards police 3. Late night shoppers Simeon Riots gave people unusual opportunities for power and control. Abnormal empowerment. David Lammy MP The risks of social & economic liberalism. Hyper individualism. The selfishness of greed. Poverty, choice, ethics, morality & vulnerability. A policy […]
London Policy Conference – don’t turn your back on housing
Posted on December 13, 2011 1 Comment
These notes accompany a PowerPoint presentation. Good morning. 1. Connectivity is an issue that has come up several times already at this London Policy Conference. As an architect and town planner, my interest is in the influence of physical connectivity on the behaviour patterns of Londoners. Was connectivity a factor in the London Riots? London’s […]
Spatial accessibility in London
Posted on November 16, 2011 1 Comment
Two areas of central London (Camden top and Whitechapel bottom), showing the spatial accessibility of the vehicle network from high (red then orange) to low (green then blue).
EPSRC Innovate 11: Working with universities
Posted on October 12, 2011 Leave a Comment
London, 11th October 2011 Tim Stonor Opportunities & barriers Intro Space Syntax Limited an SME working in the Creative Industries, specifically architecture and urban planning. A consulting company. Engaging in projects from high value real estate developments in the City of London to the regeneration of slum settlements. Outside urban space & inside building space. […]
London Riots location analysis – first findings
Posted on September 13, 2011 Leave a Comment
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Measuring & modelling cities
Posted on May 11, 2011 3 Comments
11th May 2011 2011 Urban Systems Symposium NYU Shack Institute of Real Estate, New York Download presentation
Spatial layout, urban movement & human transaction
Posted on April 13, 2011 3 Comments
Download my presentation “Designing mobility for democracy: the role of cities” #demobility Thursday, 14th April 2011 from 1pm to 5pm NYU, Kimmel Center, Eisner & Lubin Auditorium 60 Washington Square South, New York Summary Given the title of this event: “Designing mobility”, I want to turn to the subject of design and the role of […]
Anna Rose presents “CityScans” at the Harvard GSD
Posted on April 4, 2011 1 Comment
View and download Anna Rose’s presentation On Tuesday, 5th April, Space Syntax director Anna Rose gave a talk at the Harvard GSD on the use of Space Syntax in planning and urban design. She began by describing Berlin’s spatial transformation during the 20th century, showing graphically how the connected heart of pre-war Berlin was then […]
Space Syntax & the future of urban planning software
Posted on April 3, 2011 3 Comments
Notes from a lecture given at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy 23rd March 2011 View a summary of the presentation on YouTube Opening comments Good afternoon. I am delighted to have this opportunity to report on my progress as this year’s Lincoln Loeb Fellow. My brief today is in two parts: first, to describe my […]
Carbon emissions & spatial connections
Posted on March 4, 2011 1 Comment
I spoke today to Dr Joyce Rosenthal’s “Environmental Planning & Sustainable Development” class at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. My presentation “Carbon emissions & spatial connections” can be viewed on Slideboom.
Spatial transformation – Berlin
Posted on February 24, 2011 3 Comments
The following images of Berlin have been prepared by Anna Rose and Christian Schwander at Space Syntax Limited as part of a wider study of the city. They show the pattern of “spatial integration” in Berlin at three key periods in history: 1940, 1989 and 2011. The colours read like a temperature scale, with highest levels […]
Giving it all away? Space Syntax & the future of urban planning software
Posted on February 23, 2011 6 Comments
Notes for a lecture to be given at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 23rd March 2011 Themes With notable exceptions, the current use of technology in planning and, especially, urban design/architecture practice is medieval. More visual than analytic. More about the “Wow!” than the “Why?”, the “Which?” or the “Will it?” Example of […]
Achieving prosperous local communities – physical connectedness is key
Posted on February 17, 2011 4 Comments
Community prosperity means social, economic and environmental prosperity. Each of these dimensions is strongly influenced by the physical design of the places where people live. Physical design influences human behaviour, which in turn influences community prosperity. The most important aspect of physical design is connectedness. Connectedness can be measured scientifically. Its effects on societal wealth […]
Portland: city of hub and spoke centrality
Posted on January 29, 2011 1 Comment
Thank you to all the people that kindly hosted me in Portland over the past three days: Portland Bright Lights, the City of Portland, Portland State University, Ankrom Moisan and Portland TriMet. Thank you to everyone that came to hear me speak – five talks in three days was a challenge that I was happy […]
Architecting the unexpected
Posted on January 19, 2011 3 Comments
“Serendipity”: it’s what cities have always provided but online environments only sometimes produce. Why “search” isn’t enough, hackers need to think like urbanists and the internet needs urban design. It’s the start of a new semester at Harvard and there’s a real buzz about the place. I had breakfast with Nicco Mele and Chee Pearlman this […]
Upcoming talk: “Planning the unplanned: An evidence-based approach to design in informal settlements”
Posted on January 11, 2011 1 Comment
Harvard Graduate School of Design, 18th January 2011, 6:30pm With the world population of slum dwellers set to increase to 2 billion over the next 30 years, the need to provide adequate living conditions for the urban poor is recognised as a major challenge. Political and economic pressure to implement improvements quickly, often means that […]
J-term course proposal
Posted on October 15, 2010 Leave a Comment
Instructor Name Tim Stonor Program/Affiliation Loeb Fellow Email tstonor@gsd.harvard.edu Previous teaching experience 1996-1998 Course Director, Master of Science in Architecture, the Bartlett, University College London. Current Honorary Senior Lecturer, the Bartlett, University College London. Course title Introduction to Space Syntax theory, technology and practice Course description Space Syntax is an architectural theory that investigates relationships […]
Designing for transaction
Posted on October 7, 2010 Leave a Comment
Today I gave a presentation to architecture students at the Graduate School of Design titled: “Designing for transaction: the importance of spatial layout, emergence & multi-scale movement”. Here’s the introduction… “Sites – such as the one you have been asked to look at in Queens – raise important questions about connections: how many, where, for […]
The power of the network 