城市转型——中东城市中从限制性随机聚集到精心设计的文化意图

Urban Transformation: From Restricted Random Aggregation to Designed Cultural Intent in Middle Eastern Cities

中东地区的定居点由于地理、自然、功能、文化、时间等因素很难进行描绘,但这里的新兴城市形态显然与世界上的其他城市一样,具有空间形式化过程这一特征。本文对卡塔尔首都多哈的空间结构进行了调查,证明"变形轮"空间结构最初是基于简单的邻接性和渗透性规则而出现的限制性随机聚集的(第一定律)结果,并在某种情况下转化为基于文化意图的(第三定律)空间策略的设计复制。本文还对多哈的街区和概念规划模型进行了分析,旨在阐明这种线性集成而层次分明的空间策略的含义。得出的结论是,这一空间形式化过程以最纯粹的形式升华了希利尔和汉森所提出的"变形轮"空间结构。

It is difficult to describe Middle Eastern settlements due to several geographical, physical, functional, cultural, and temporal factors. Despite this, it seems apparent that spatio-formal processes characterise their emergent urban pattern in the same way as other cities of the world The paper examines the spatial structure of Metropolitan Doha, Qatar. It argues the "deformed wheel" spatial structure, initially emerging as a(first law) consequence of restricted random aggregation based on simple rules of adjacency and permeability, at some point transforms into design replication of a(third law) spatial strategy based on cultural intent. The paper analyses Doha neighborhoods and notional plan models to illustrate the implications of this spatial strategy described as hierarchal separation by linear integration. It concludes this spatio-formal process represents a distillation of Hillier and Hanson’s ‘deformed wheel’ spatial structure in its purest form.