Print Email Facebook Twitter Ethnic groups and spatial behaviour in Rotterdam's neighbourhoods Title Ethnic groups and spatial behaviour in Rotterdam's neighbourhoods Author Van Nes, A. Aghabeik, L. Faculty Architecture and The Built Environment Department Urbanism Date 2015-07-13 Abstract Little knowledge exists on the relationship between urban space and the behaviour pattern of various ethnical groups. For this purpose four different neighbourhoods with a high number of various ethnical groups were investigated in different time periods during a weekday. A difference was made between Europeans, Turkish, Moroccans, and Surinamese/Antillean users in the static snapshots. The following spatial parameters were taken into account: Axial and angular analyses with topological and metrical radiuses of the street and road network (Hillier & Ida 2005), and various micro scale tools (van Nes & López 2007) showing the relationship between private and public space. As it turned out, the more spatially segregated the street net is in a local area, the more the various ethnic groups are separated from others. These areas consist of a labyrinthy broken up street net, dead end and poorly inter-visible streets. A high spatial integration of the street net contributed to great variation of all types of people on streets. These areas consist of a highly inter-connected street net with shops located along it and with entrances directly connected to the street. The results shed some light on the current urban regeneration and urban design practice in the Netherlands. The spatial structure is hardly taken into account, in which contribute to a further socio-economic segregation of various ethnical groups. Seemingly, spatial segregation contributes to social as well as ethnical segregation among the users while spatial integration support socio-economic integration among various ethnic groups. Subject cultural behavioursocial segregationghettosmulticultural neighbourhoods To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:10e823cb-72e9-4cc9-9176-49e304711a65 Publisher Space Syntax Laboratory,The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL ISBN 978-0-9933429-0-5 Source SSS10: Proceedings of the 10th International Space Syntax Symposium, London, UK, 13-17 July 2015 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights (c) 2015 The Author(s)Space Syntax Laboratory Files PDF 321853.pdf 2.55 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:10e823cb-72e9-4cc9-9176-49e304711a65/datastream/OBJ/view