计算城市形象
Computing the Image of the City
摘要：
凯文·林奇（Kevin Lynch）提出了一个城市形象理论，确定了使城市清晰或可想象的五个要素。由此产生的城市心理地图通常是通过一些定性过程得出的，依赖于与城市居民的互动，要求他们从脑海中回忆城市元素。本文提出了一个过程，通过它的城市的形象可以定量地自动使用计算机技术和地理空间数据库的城市。这种方法主要是基于和启发克里斯托弗亚历山大的生活结构和尼科斯Salingaros的结构秩序，作为一个城市的生活结构或结构秩序往往是清晰和形象。随着越来越多的城市环境的地理信息在非常精细的尺度或分辨率（例如，有关人类活动的轨迹数据）的可用性，本文中描述的建议或解决方案是特别及时和相关的城市研究和建筑设计。关键词：心理地图，头/尾划分规则，易读性，形象性，幂律，缩放和层次。
英文摘要：
Kevin Lynch proposed a theory of the image of the city identifying five elements that make the city legible or imageable. The resulting mental map of the city was conventionally derived through some qualitative processes, relying on interactions with city residents to ask them to recall city elements from their minds. This paper proposes a process by which the image of the city can be quantitatively derived automatically using computer technology and geospatial databases of the city. This method is substantially based on and inspired by Christopher Alexander's living structure and Nikos Salingaros' structural order, as a city with the living structure or structural order tends to be legible and imageable. With the increasing availability of geographic information of urban environments at very fine scales or resolutions (for example, trajectories data about human activities), the proposal or solution described in this paper is particularly timely and relevant for urban studies and architectural design. Keywords: Mental maps, head/tail division rule, legibility, imageability, power law, scaling, and hierarchy.
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