Investigating the level of security of urban space using spatial arrangement technique

Ahmad Sheikh Ahmadi¹ Siroos Moomivand² Sohrab Alizadeh³

1) PhD student in Urban Planning, University of Kurdistan
2) Master student, University of Kurdistan
3) Master of Architectural Engineering

IOI Code : XDHE-GAFHC
Publication : 6th.International Conference on Researches in Science & Engineering & 3rd.International Congress on Civil, Architecture and Urbanism in Asia(6icrsie.com)
Abstract :
    Today, due to the expansion and development of the city and urbanization, the need for security in various dimensions is felt more than before and different from the past. In the meantime, psychological security is one of the main cracks and determines the concept of security in urban spaces and is affected by many components. One of these variables, the study of its effect on the sense of space security, is the subject of the present confrontation, the syntactic components of urban environments. One of the most important factors in the occurrence of social anomalies are spatial features and environmental facilities such as land use pattern, form, shape, distribution of activities, elements and components of the city. The functional quality of cumulative spaces has a special place in environmental and urban design, and in order to improve the optimal performance of this type of urban spaces, considering the security components is of special importance. These components include objective and subjective indicators that failure to install them in spaces with an unlimited number of users, also overshadows the overall performance of the space. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between spatial syntax components on the level of urban space security using spatial arrangement technique. In order to achieve the purpose of the study, which is an effective assessment to improve security in the urban square, in order to measure the impact of objective dimensions of the environment on the formation of safe and insecure points, components of space syntax were used. Depthmap was used to analyze the information in this section. Based on the findings of Depthmap software, the level of security is based on variables measured in the context, in the peripheral passages; That is, the streets of Imam, Shahid Montazeri, Shahid Bakri and Besat are more and the level of security in the inner passages of Baft is less than the surrounding passages.

Keywords : security environmental features space syntax space layout