Abstract
Wildfires are destructive incidents of wide range and high impact in urban space, with climate change widely affecting their force and frequency, whereas their impact is extended to environment and society. The purpose of this research was to investigate connectivity and interaction between the “spaces” that were configured in urban space, aiming to contribute in spatial planning in emergency cases, like wildfires. The main concern of this research was how urban planning could take into consideration human movement in urban space and contribute in prevention and disaster management. Methodology was based on analyzing, examining and comparing the spatial configuration between two road network’s scenarios, the Syntactic Configuration and the Urban Configuration. Provided that Space Syntax takes into consideration human perceptive in order to simulate human movement in urban space, Space Syntax was combined with Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and criteria closely related to wildfires. Study case and main inspiration was the wildfire of 23/7/2018 at summer location of Mati, Eastern Attica.
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Papazoglou, A., Pigaki, M. (2023). Comparative Study for the Investigation of Safe Movement with the Method of Space Syntax: The Case of Mati, Eastern Attica. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2023 Workshops. ICCSA 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14105. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37108-0_37
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