Automated geometrical evaluation of a plaza (town square)

作者：Zawidzki M^*

来源：Advances in Engineering Software, 2016, 96: 58-69.

DOI：10.1016/j.advengsoft.2016.01.018

• Urban composition
• Public square
• Plaza
• Layout evaluation
• Design support tool
• Normalized accumulated quality

This paper presents a method for an automated geometrical evaluation (AGE) intended as a design support tool for urban design of a plaza (P). AGE is based on three normalized properties derived from a plan of P, namely: smallness, enclosure, and regularity. 19 worldwide plazas have been evaluated by 20 respondents in, what is called here, human subjective evaluation (HSE). A brief analysis of HSE including the identification of redundant categories is presented. Two P evaluation methods based on all four (S,C,E,R) and selected three (S,E,R) properties are discussed. Good agreement of AGE based on S,E, and R (NPSER) with HSE is shown. P quality rating (excellent, good, fair) based on NPSER is introduced. Exceptional cases are briefly discussed.

• 出版日期2016-6
• 单位MIT