Graph entropy as a means of measuring the intelligibility of a city [Entropía de grafos y su uso para medir la inteligibilidad de la ciudad] Review uri icon

abstract

  • Within space cognition studies, Hillier (1996) proposed the concept of intelligibility as a property of space that allows it to be understood by people that either live in or transit through that space. Hillier, in the theory of space syntax, suggests that intelligibility is the correlation between a local variable and a global variable. Basing themselves on the above, Volchenkov and Blanchard (2008) proposed a way to measure intelligibility outside the technical context of the theory of space syntax. This paper returns to theoretical and methodological discussion of Hillier's work and explains the method proposed by Volchenkov and Blanchard. As an example, the intelligibility of the historic center of the city of San Luis Potosi, Mexico, was measured. It was found that this space has a high intelligibility in the terms of the method proposed by Volchenkov and Blanchard.

publication date

  • 2014-01-01