الفهرس 
Introductionيوجد فقط 14 صفحة متاحة للعرض العام
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المستخلص
Urban planning and design has a significant role in determining people’s wellbeing and quality of life in cities. The urban planning and design process has always been considered extremely complex owing to the fact that it affects and also is affected by economic, social, cultural and environmental aspects of urban communities. Hence, these processes have been evolving in a way to address these complexities with integrating intuition with measurable evidence and scientific analysis. New analytical approaches, also known as evidence-based approaches, have been developed in order to make the design process more clear and ensure the success of plans prior to execution. Space Syntax is one of the most advanced evidence-based approaches and it is the focus of this thesis. Space Syntax was developed as a theory in the 1970’s, where the main proposition is that there is a strong correlation between spatial configuration and the way society moves, uses and understands space. It is based on a set of theories, tools, and techniques for spatial configuration analysis with the aim to understand the impact of configuration on human behavior. Therefore, providing an evidence-based method for planners to test impacts of proposed new urban plans or urban adjustments on existing areas prior realization. This thesis concentrates on the capability of Space Syntax to be utilized as syntactic approach to assist planners in generating evidence-based solutions to the urban challenges in Egypt, with specific focus on the challenge of transportation network planning. The thesis consists of three main parts. The first part is a theoretical background on which the study is built on, including a brief overview of the urban challenges in Egypt and an extensive review of Space Syntax as a theory, approach and tool. The second part presents the applications of Space Syntax in the field of transportation network planning and thoroughly analyzes the exact process used in a number of case studies. The third part of the thesis is the practical study which is conducted in Mansoura city, an intermediate city in Dakahlia governorate, Egypt. The main aim of the practical study is to utilize the theories and tools of Space Syntax as an evidence-based approach to optimize the transportation network in Mansoura city. This is achieved through using Depthmap, a software based on Space Syntax, to evaluate two important spatial indices which are: urban activity and urban centrality. Urban activity identifies patterns of movement indicating potential transit routes and urban centrality identifies urban centers and sub-centers indicating potential transit stations. Modeled movement patterns were then validated through correlating the analysis results with the observed numbers. The results of the practical study ensure a strong positive correlation between modeled movement and observed movement. Therefore confirming the accuracy and reliability of the analysis in optimizing transit routes and stations. The thesis concludes that Space Syntax configuration analysis can be helpful in providing planners with measurable evidence and numerical data that assists them in making more informed decisions and generating evidence-based urban solutions in Egypt.