Cure for Urban Rupture

This research sets out to investigate if there can be a universal approach on how to handle segregation in urban grids. An extensive review of analytical literature on segregated urban grids is conducted surveying different types of segregation such as physical, spatial and social. It is then argued that it is possible to model a new approach on the rehabilitation of cases of segregation. Parent theory of this new approach is Space Syntax. By using space syntax analysis, numerical values representing the urban spaces of the grid were acquired. Then these values were analyzed using a number prediction tool in envisioning possible future behavior of the urban grid. It is discussed that, as space syntax works in numerical values it is in fact possible to analyze them using a mathematical tool used for numerical prediction equations; Fibonacci retracement. It is argued, pinpointing the resulting values on space syntax integration maps provide key locations that would have impact potential on future sustainability of the urban grid. It is then suggested to insert artificial cores containing socio-economically viable functions on those key locations to act as secondary city centers, in observing the increase in space syntax values of integration and elimination of segregated portions of the urban grid; the process is named as the Cure. Analyzed space syntax maps of the applied Cure showed major increases in the levels of integration and even total elimination of drastically segregated areas on some cases. The thesis concludes that it is in fact possible to improve cases of urban segregation by using the proposed method. Keywords: Segregation, urban grid analysis, space syntax, time-space analysis, Fibonacci.