Space Syntax - Designing for how cities self-organize

Space Syntax provides a unique, evidence-based approach to theplanning and design of buildings and urban areas. The tools developedby the company together with University College London have been widelyused in architecture and urban regeneration projects and to empowerpeople to make informed decisions about the key issues concerning them.As part of Cities in Motion workshop this lecture will give anintroduction to various Space Syntax methodologies, including movementand spatial analysis as well as to the strategic design approach of theconsultancy.

Anna Rose is an architect with a specialism in urban design andmasterplanning. She is a director of Space Syntax Limited and has beenwith the consultancy since 2002, advising clients in design &masterplanning processes. She has lectured widely to architectural andlandscape design audiences across the EU. Her recent project workincludes the concept-masterplanning of the central urban area site inJeddah, Saudi Arabia, advice on the recent redesign of Nottingham's OldMarket Square in the UK, and a study on landscape and public realmimprovements to a large housing estate in East London, Shoreditch.