Geographic Information Systems in Design and Social Sciences PERVER K BARAN Park Recreation and Tourism Management William R Smith Department of Sociology and Anthropology NC STATE UNIVERSITY

Spatial Configuration, Land Use Patterns and Vehicular Movement in Cary, NC: A Comparative Analysis 1989, 1994, and 2002 PERVER K BARAN Park Recreation and Tourism Management Umut Toker Graduate - PhD in Design Program

How urban form relates to pedestrian and vehicular movement patterns? Traditional Origin-Destination Approach: Characterizes the problem in terms of flows to and from “attractor” land uses (i.e. shopping malls) Land use Pedestrian flow Vehicular flow

How urban form relates to pedestrian and vehicular movement patterns? Configurational – Space Syntax Approach: Characterizes the problem in terms of how the “spatial configuration” of urban form relates to pedestrian and vehicular movement patterns Configurational Accessibility Attractive Land Uses multiplier effect More Human Space Use Pedestrian flow Vehicular flow

Configurational Accessibility - Permeability Non-metric and non-geometric ‘configurational properties of space The ease of physical movement through a district The number of alternative routes running through a district Where people can go and cannot go

Configurational Analysis Axial Map Identified geometrically by drawing the longest straight line possible before the line hits a building, wall, etc.

Configurational Accessibility Cary 1989

GIS Database Spatial configuration measures global integration, local integration, connectivity Land use and density Traffic counts

P roject Proposal Submitted to NSF Perver K Baran Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management William R Smith Department of Sociology and Anthropology Hugh A Devine Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management Jacqueline M Hughes-Oliver Department of Statistics Deborah L Weisel Political Science and Public Administration An Integrative Social-Spatial Analysis of Crime

Study Objective Develop an integrative social-spatial approach to study how social and economic factors interact with the built environment to influence risk and vulnerability to crime in an urban environment