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Space and Place, Oxford, 9-12 Sept 2013 Places as Intersecting Flows: Mapping Urban Morphologies, Functional Constellations and Pedestrian Rhythms Elek Pafka Abstract Starting from an open and dynamic conception of place as a socio-spatial and temporal assemblage, this paper explores high density urban areas as dynamic environments of social interaction. While Lefebvre's call for a rhythmanalysis of the city, significantly influenced contemporary urban discourse, such understanding still lacks empirical depth. This paper seeks to advance the empirical grounding of rhythmanalysis through a comparative study of nine selected street intersections in London, New York and Melbourne. It explores the links between the observed, filmed and measured daily and weekly rhythms of pedestrian flows on the one hand and density, permeability, grain size and functional mix, the four preconditions of urban vitality according to Jacobs, on the other hand. Further, mapping is used as a means of revealing the forces underlying each place. It is shown that the overlay of regular patterns of everyday habits and routines, rhythms of social interactions and mechanical micro-rhythms of transportation systems, all mediated by urban form, lead to place specific polyrhythms. Place is thus conceived as emerging from the intersection of rhythmic flows, mediated by urban morphology and functional mix. Keywords: place, intersection, urban morphology, mapping, rhythmanalysis, pedestrian flows, functional mix ***** Introduction While the concept of place has been continuously present in Western philosophy for over two millennia, this hasn't been always explicit, and theories varied broadly. 1 With an integrative approach that aims to avoid the common reductionism of place to phenomenology or social construct alone, this paper uses a broad, open and dynamic conception of place, as "integration of space and time", as "spatio-temporal event" (Massey). 2 Drawing on Deleuzian philosophy, place is seen as a territorialised assemblage, constituted of temporal connections of spatial and social elements, at and in-between various scales. 3 A good starting point for a comprehensive analysis of place as temporal socio-spatial phenomena is provided by Lefebvre's proposed rhythmanalysis, a science aimed at investigating time and space together, as "localised time" or "temporalised space". 4 As Lefebvre's approach was decidedly from the abstract to the concrete, his theoretical oeuvre's limited empirical underpinning has been a recurring point of

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Page 1: Space and Place, Oxford, 9-12 Sept 2013 Places as

Space and Place, Oxford, 9-12 Sept 2013

Places as Intersecting Flows: Mapping Urban Morphologies,

Functional Constellations and Pedestrian Rhythms

Elek Pafka

Abstract

Starting from an open and dynamic conception of place as a socio-spatial and

temporal assemblage, this paper explores high density urban areas as dynamic

environments of social interaction. While Lefebvre's call for a rhythmanalysis of

the city, significantly influenced contemporary urban discourse, such

understanding still lacks empirical depth. This paper seeks to advance the empirical

grounding of rhythmanalysis through a comparative study of nine selected street

intersections in London, New York and Melbourne. It explores the links between

the observed, filmed and measured daily and weekly rhythms of pedestrian flows

on the one hand and density, permeability, grain size and functional mix, the four

preconditions of urban vitality according to Jacobs, on the other hand. Further,

mapping is used as a means of revealing the forces underlying each place. It is

shown that the overlay of regular patterns of everyday habits and routines, rhythms

of social interactions and mechanical micro-rhythms of transportation systems, all

mediated by urban form, lead to place specific polyrhythms. Place is thus

conceived as emerging from the intersection of rhythmic flows, mediated by urban

morphology and functional mix.

Keywords: place, intersection, urban morphology, mapping, rhythmanalysis,

pedestrian flows, functional mix

*****

Introduction

While the concept of place has been continuously present in Western

philosophy for over two millennia, this hasn't been always explicit, and theories

varied broadly.1 With an integrative approach that aims to avoid the common

reductionism of place to phenomenology or social construct alone, this paper uses

a broad, open and dynamic conception of place, as "integration of space and time",

as "spatio-temporal event" (Massey).2 Drawing on Deleuzian philosophy, place is

seen as a territorialised assemblage, constituted of temporal connections of spatial

and social elements, at and in-between various scales.3 A good starting point for a

comprehensive analysis of place as temporal socio-spatial phenomena is provided

by Lefebvre's proposed rhythmanalysis, a science aimed at investigating time and

space together, as "localised time" or "temporalised space".4

As Lefebvre's approach was decidedly from the abstract to the concrete, his

theoretical oeuvre's limited empirical underpinning has been a recurring point of

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critique, including by urban sociologists Chombart de Lauwe and Castells.5

Although in the last decade the increasing influence of rhythmanalysis in the

Anglophone literature has led to numerous new empirical explorations, there were

only limited attempts that go beyond phenomenology,6 despite Lefebvre's

indication that rhythmanalysis cannot simply be 'phenomenology from the

window'.7 As it has been shown that comprehensive empirical explorations of place

have to be based on multiple methods, including spatial analysis, discourse

analysis and phenomenology,8 and considering the earlier emphasis given to the

later two, this paper explores new methods of place-analysis focused on the

connection between the spatial, social and temporal aspects of place. This approach

is from the particular to the abstract, complementary to Lefebvre's progression

from the abstract to the concrete. As a basis for the empirical investigation nine

case study sites have been selected from London, New York and Melbourne. The

daily rhythms of each of these places and the underlying urban morphology have

been captured through spatial analysis, pedestrian surveys, mapping and time-lapse

video recording.

Methods

While numerous new technologies are opening up ways for socio-spatial

analysis, the technical limitations of GPS tracking, video-tracking and automated

counters are still ample. GPS data is only available for a limited number of

volunteering participants and lacks precision in dense urban environments,9 video-

tracking requires manual identification of individuals, its accuracy is dependent on

consistent image quality and there is a high rate of data loss as result of visual

obstructions,10

while automated people counters (laser or infra-red) pose

difficulties of deployment, have limited range, significant error rates and high

costs. Thus this research relied on new uses of earlier techniques: non-participant

observation in order to record daily rhythms and time-lapse video recording in

order to record micro-rhythms of social interaction. Both methods are constrained

to a spatial scale within the limits of visual continuity. For counting a smart-phone

app was used, which allowed operating multiple counters at the same time. This

has been found to be much less conspicuous than traditional counters, minimising

the intrusion in the observed social space.

The capacity of video recording to capture and illustrate rhythms is well

exemplified by early cinematographic experiments such as Berlin:Symphony of a

Metropolis.11

As a research tool video recording has been used in the past for

studying pedestrian behaviour, notably by Whyte12

observing plazas and streets in

Manhattan. In this research video recording of the pedestrian movement has been

used to capture multiple attributes of the peak midday flows in each case study

area. The videos capture social, spatial and temporal aspects of streetlife such as

groupings of people, gender mix, presence of small children and pets, diversity of

dress styles, diversity of activities, street portions of more intense use, barriers to

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pedestrian movement, dominant directions of flow, ways in which street furniture

and interface type influence behaviour, micro-rhythms of street crossing, situations

of crowding and the visual interaction between people engaged in static and

dynamic activities.

As place cannot be understood without its links to other places,13

the analysis

requires a framework of multiple relevant scales (Figure 1). This research

comprised three spatial scales (intersection, neighbourhood and metropolis) and

three temporal scales (micro-rhythms, daily rhythms, weekly rhythms).

Figure 1. Multiple scales of analysis, exemplified for the Seven Dials intersection

in Covent Garden, London. Streetlife in each intersection is linked to the scale of

the neighbourhood (walking distance) and metropolitan area (commuting distance).

Case studies

In order to develop refined methods of capturing and representing urban

rhythms, a set of case studies has been selected. The aim was to explore a diversity

of urban morphologies, while containing social variations. Thus case studies have

been chosen from the realm of the cosmopolitan Anglosphere. The nine case

studies form a matrix of three distinct urban types and three cities, as follows:

(1) Central city areas characterised by the dominance of a mix of daytime

activities (work, shopping) over residential activities. These are also characterised

by heterogeneous grain size and high building density. This type of urban area has

been previously studied by Gehl14

and Whyte,15

with a particular focus on peak

usage of public space. The selected sites are the Seven Dials area in Covent

Garden, a late 17th century development,16

Midtown NY laid out in the early19th

century and Melbourne CBD characterised by mid-19th century grid. This urban

type is labelled here Central Business Districts (CBDs).

(2) Areas characterised by relatively high residential densities and fine-grain

mix of uses. This type of urban area has been the focus of the research of Jacobs17

and Sennett,18

with a focus on social vitality. The selected sites are Notting Hill,

Greenwich Village and Fitzroy (Melbourne). All three neighbourhoods have been

described as important creative clusters and have experienced gentrification in the

past decades. Greenwich Village became a bohemian cluster in the early 1900s,

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with gentrification from the 1930s and more significantly since the 1960-70s.19

Notting Hill started to attract artists in the mid-1960s, with gentrification

intensifying since the 1990s, but remained moderate and contained by the presence

of poorer areas.20

The transformation of Fitzroy from industrial to an artistic hub

started in the 1970s, with middle class gentrification since the 1990s.21

This type is

labelled here Gentrifying Creative Clusters (GCCs).

(3) The third place type is relatively new, characterised by high density

developments of office and residential uses in waterfront locations. As a result of

the accumulation of capital specific to the period,22

these areas are characterised by

a large-grain mix of uses. The selected urban renewal areas of South Quay London,

Battery Park City NY and Southbank Melbourne have been subject of in-depth

analysis among others by Carmona,23

Gordon24

and Dovey,25

with a focus on

planning policies. These have been labelled here Neo-Liberal Developments

(NLDs).

These three urban types (Figure 2), representing a specific combination of

functional mix and grain size correspond to distinct patterns of historic change: (1)

the mixed-grain character of central city locations, is the result of multiple

overlapping layers of change in the built and socio-economic environment; (2) the

small grain creative clusters are characterised by much slower, gradual change, an

attribute considered by Sennett a key precondition for "urban culture to take

root",26

and (3) recent large-grain developments, are characterised by the rapid and

radical shift of industrial sites or reclaimed land to living and working precincts.

This framework of case studies provides a matrix of commonality of linear historic

time processes resulting in a shared history within each city on the one hand, and

shared patterns of change within each urban type on the other hand.

Within each of these nine case study areas, a representative intersection with

one of the highest levels of pedestrian activity has been selected, based on

preliminary observation within the broader neighbourhood. To avoid local rhythms

being obscured by metropolitan rhythms, the highly localised impact of major

public transport access points has been limited by selecting intersections at a

minimum distance of 200 metres from railway or subway stations.

Mapping urban morphology and functional constellations

An early writer of rhythm analysis, Jacobs described the link between street

life, urban morphology and functional mix. What she referred to as urban vitality

and since has been variously referred to as urban intensity or buzz was linked to

four preconditions: density, permeability, grain size and functional mix.27

In this

framework building density is a precondition for accommodating a large enough

number of people to provide a critical mass for a diversity of social interactions, a

high level of permeability increases walkability and thus opportunities for

encounter, small grain size enables social and functional diversity, while a good

functional mix between residents, workers and visitors assures a good time-spread

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of public activities. Remarkably, half a century after Jacobs' seminal work, there

are few tools that allow capturing these four dimensions in a comprehensive and

useful way. While perhaps most attention has been directed towards density, single

measures such as the number of dwellings per hectare used by Jacobs, are

inadequate for describing the multi-dimensional character of urban concentration.28

Figure 2. Nine case study areas: streets, lots and building footprints.

To capture these urban dimensions, the case studies have been mapped with the

main focus on functional mix, as the key structuring element of daily rhythms. To

capture the specific functional mix of each study area, a new mapping form has

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been developed, representing entries to various functions with a dot size

proportional with the number of people potentially using that entry. The functional

categories have been defined based on the specific time period and frequency an

entry is used: residential (red), leisure (yellow), work (green), spectacle (blue) and

public transport (white). To represent the potential number of people using an

entry, three size categories have been defined for each functional type. For

residential uses the dot size increases as the number of units passes the thresholds

of 10, respectively 100 dwellings, for retail and office uses dots increase with the

gross floor area (500m2, 5,000m

2), for spectacle with the capacity of the venue

(500 seats, 1000 seats) and for transport with the capacity of the system. Besides

the functional mix, the map also provides an indication of building density and

grain size (dot size and frequency). Thus these maps of functional constellations

(Figure 3) illustrate the morphological conditions mediating pedestrian rhythms,

visualising key forces underlying each place.29

They reveal much stronger

similarities between the urban types, than between the three cities.

The three Central Business Districts (CBDs) are the oldest part of each city,

and as such their morphology is characterised by a mix of block and lot sizes, net

building densities and functions, as a result of the overlap of different layers of

historic development. Gross floor area ratio (FAR) is above 3 in each CBD. The

functional mix is dominated by retail and office space, with a mix of 20-25%

residential floor area. They are also at the centre of an extensive public transport

network, and attract a large number of daytime visitors. The functional

constellation maps illustrate these similarities, but also the key differences: Covent

Garden has a more irregular street network and highly mixed grain size, Midtown

New York has larger grain size and clustering of offices along Park Avenue on the

western side of the study area, while Melbourne has a less heterogeneous mix of

uses.

The three predominantly residential neighbourhoods (GCCs) are located in

close proximity to the CBDs of each city and have one of the highest residential

densities within their metropolitan areas. The building density is significantly

lower than in CBDs, with gross FAR of 1 to 2. All three areas have a significant

number of mostly retail jobs, with a rate of job to residents of 1:2. The spatial

patterns of retail distribution are however different: in Notting Hill a linear pattern

along Portobello Rd; in Greenwich Village a network of streets comprising the

north-south running Hudson St and Bleecker St and several east-west running

streets connecting these, while in Fitzroy the retail distribution follows a cross

pattern along Brunswick and Johnston Streets. Permeability is high in all three

neighbourhoods. All three study areas are characterised by a fine-grain pattern of

small lot subdivisions, with medium sized lots occupied by larger apartment

buildings or public housing. The functional constellation maps illustrate this fine

grain and highly structured functional distribution.

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The three case study areas dominated by neo-liberal developments (NLDs) are

characterised by high building densities, despite the significant extent of water,

vacant land and construction sites. Gross FAR ranges from 2 to 4 and all three are

characterised by large grain and low permeability. The functional mix is

predominantly residential and office, with limited retail.

Figure 3. Functional constellation maps (FCM).

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Pedestrian flow rhythms

The daily rhythms of pedestrian flows have been recorded between 6am to

12am. The time sample was 15 minutes per hour for each flow, recorded every two

hours. As the aim was to capture characteristic streetlife activity, peaks caused by

singular events, annual rhythms or extreme climate (mid-winter/summer) were

avoided. This approach differs from Gehl's worldwide surveys aimed to capture

peaks of stationary activities, predominantly carried out around middays and in

summer months.30

As the focus is on the level of social interaction, flows in each

direction have been recorded separately and represented in a chart graph as an

overlay of northbound rhythms (blue) and southbound rhythm (orange) (Figure 4).

Two-directional flows corresponding to face-to-face contacts thus appear as a mix

of the two (green).

Comparing the daily rhythms in the nine case study areas shows that there are

much stronger similarities between urban types than between cities. The CBDs

show the highest pedestrian flows corresponding to the high job and visitor

density, and a clear pattern of three daily peaks, with a very sharp and one-

directional morning peak, perfectly balanced two-directional midday peak and a

more diluted evening peak. The high number of pedestrians in Melbourne can be

attributed to its mono-centric structure, and thus relates to the larger metropolitan

scale. In the gentrifying creative clusters (GCCs) daily rhythms are much more

even and smooth. The numbers of pedestrians are high relative to building density.

The unusual pyramidal shape of Notting Hill graph is due to the day market on

Portobello Rd. In the neoliberal developments (NLDs) flows are remarkably small

relative to the building density, but still showing the three sharp and often one-

directional peaks.

The video recordings (Figure 5) demonstrate the diversity of micro-rhythms

and spatial patterns of pedestrian flows at midday, when in all study areas there is

an even distribution of flows in both directions of each street. Thus switching the

time scale from 1 hour to 1 minute, reveals other differences. Here the patterns

seem to be defined by the characteristic traffic regulations and culturally specific

walking habits. Pedestrian flows in Covent Garden are most informal, with no

strong patterns of choosing the left or right side of the footpath and high frequency

of street crossings at almost any point. The patterns of pedestrian flows in New

York's Midtown are more constrained, with a limited level of informal crossing. In

Melbourne's CBD, pedestrian flows follow highly formalized patterns, with a

strong tendency for people to walk on the left side of the footpath and crossings

strongly structured by the mechanic rhythms of traffic lights. The time-lapse video

also reveals the occasionally highly significant interaction between static and

dynamic activities, wherever the public space design allows or encourages sitting

or standing. This is most intense in Covent Garden, but also Notting Hill, Fitzroy

and Midtown NY.

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Figure 4. Daily rhythms of pedestrian flows (people / hour) between 6am and

midnight. One-directional flows appear as orange or blue, while two-directional

flows corresponding to face-to-face contacts appear in green.

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Figure 5. Stills from the time-lapse video-recordings.

Places as intersections

This paper shows that Jacobs' work concerning the relationship between urban

intensity, morphology and functional mix can be further developed towards a more

detailed and nuanced understanding of these connections. One area of research in

this direction can build upon Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis, examining the relationship

between the experiences of everyday rhythms of intensity to the materiality of the

city.

It is also shown how a place can be mapped in a way that reveals its potential

rhythms. The Functional Constellation Maps (FCMs) presented in the paper

illustrate the spatial distribution of attractors relating to different functional types,

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defined by the frequency and magnitude of peak activity at the public-private

interface. This method is seen as a tool that can be useful to advance urban design

theory towards a better empirical grounding.

The comparison of nine high density neighbourhoods showed that similar urban

rhythms are produced by similar morphologies and functional constellations in

different cities. Concomitantly each place has its own specificity resulting from the

intersection of rhythmic flows, mediated by urban morphology and functional mix.

Acknowledgements

This paper emerges from the ongoing PhD research Urban Density Rhythms

conducted at the University of Melbourne that investigates the relationship

between urban density, morphology and rhythms of everyday life. I thank Kim

Dovey for his support as supervisor of this research and the critical feedback

provided to an earlier version of this paper.

Notes 1 Edward S. Casey, The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History (University of

California Press, 1997). 2 Doreen Massey, For Space (London: Sage, 2005). 130

3 Manuel De Landa, A new philosophy of society (Continuum, 2006); Kim Dovey,

Becoming Places (London: Routledge, 2010). 4 Henri Lefebvre, Rhythmanalysis: space, time and everyday life, trans. Stuart

Elden and Gerald Moore (London: Continuum, 2004). 5 Lukasz Stanek, Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research and the

Production of Theory (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011). 6 Tim Edensor, Geographies of Rhythm: Nature, Place, Mobilities and Bodies

(Ashgate, 2010); Jon May and Nigel Thrift, Timespace: geographies of temporality

(Routledge, 2001). 7 Lefebvre, Rhythmanalysis: space, time and everyday life: 18.

8 Kim Dovey, Framing Places: Mediating Power in Built Form (Routledge,

1999). 9 Stefan van der Spek et al., "Sensing Human Activity: GPS Tracking," Sensors,

no. 9 (2009). 10

Anders Johansson and Dirk Helbing, "From Crowd Dynamics to Crowd Safety:

A Video-based Analysis," Advances in Complex Systems 11, no. 4 (2008). 11

Walter Ruttmann, "Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt (Berlin: Symphony of a

Metropolis)," (Weimar Republic1927). 12

William Hollingsworth Whyte, The social life of small urban spaces

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(Washington, D.C.: Conservation Foundation, 1980). 13

Doreen Massey, World City (Polity Press, 2007). 14

Jan Gehl, Life between buildings: using public space, trans. Jo Koch (New York:

Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1987). 15

William Hollingsworth Whyte, City: Rediscovering the Center (New York:

Doubleday, 1988). 16 William C. Baer, "The Seven Dials: "freak of town-planning" or simply ahead of its time?," Journal of Urbanism 3, no. 1 (2010). 17

Jane Jacobs, The death and life of great American cities (New York: Random

House, 1961). 18

Richard Sennett, "The Open City," in The Endless City, ed. Ricky Burdett and

Deyan Sudjic (London: Phaidon, 2007). 19

Sharon Zukin and Laura Braslow, "The life cycle of New York’s creative

districts: Reflections on the unanticipated consequences of unplanned cultural

zones," City, Culture and Society, no. 2 (2011). 20

Graham P. Martin, "Narratives Great and Small: Neighbourhood Change, Place

and Identity in Notting Hill," International Journal of Urban and Regional

Research 29.1(2005). 21

Seamus O'Hanlon and Simone Sharpe, "Becoming Post-industrial: Victoria

Street, Fitzroy, c.1970 to Now," Urban Policy and Research 27, no. 3 (2009). 22

Sharon Zukin, The cultures of cities (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1995). 23

Matthew Carmona, "The Isle of Dogs: Four development waves, five planning

models, twelve plans, thirty-five years, and a renaissance . . . of sorts," Progress in

Planning, no. 71 (2009). 24

David L.A. Gordon, Battery Park City : politics and planning on the New York

waterfront (Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach, 1997). 25

Kim Dovey, Fluid city : transforming Melbourne's urban waterfront (UNSW

Press, 2005). 26

Sennett, "The Open City," 293. 27

Jacobs, The death and life of great American cities. 28 Kim Dovey and Elek Pafka, "The urban density assemblage: Modelling multiple measures," Urban Design International (2013). 29

James Corner, "The Agency of Mapping," in Mappings, ed. D Cosgrove

(London: Reaktion, 1999). 30

Jan Gehl, "Towards a fine city for people: Public space and public life London

2004," (London2004); "Places for people - Melbourne 2004," (Melbourne2004);

"World Class Streets: Remaking New York City's Public Realm," (New

York2008).

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