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| Design and Value: Spatial Form and the
Economic Failure of a Mall Author: M. Gordon Brown Start Page: 189 Abstract: Real estate analysts
have not had the tools to identify the functional problems of real estate because they
have not focused on configuration. Space syntax is a way to represent, describe and
evaluate spatial configurations or patterns created through building and urban design.
Space syntax was used to systematically describe the configuration of a failed luxury
shopping mall. Shape recognition techniques transform the plan into a mathematical network
that can be analyzed. Network node parameters can be related to more traditional measures
like occupancy and revenues by location. Thus revealed, the underlying spatial structure
of the failed mall is compared to that of a similar but successful mall and its functional
deficiencies identified. |
