论文标题
从形式到信息：分析不同空间文化中的建筑环境
From form to information: Analysing built environments in different spatial cultures
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论文摘要
城市在世界各地都有不同，但是这个事实与文化有任何关系吗？城市形式的想法体现了与文化身份有关的特质，捕捉了许多城市研究中许多人的想象力，但这是一个尚未仔细检查的假设。本文将在建筑环境中接近空间配置作为城市文化的代表，因此寻求与特定区域文化或城市发展规划文化一致的差异。它确实集中在塑造城市的基本组成部分上：建筑物及其在建筑形式的细胞络合物中的聚合。在探索香农的工作中，我们引入了一项熵措施，以分析内置形式系统中细胞排列的概率分布。我们将其应用于来自世界不同地区的45个城市的市中心地区，作为一种相似的措施，以比较和群集城市可能与特定的空间文化一致。调查结果表明，一种分类方案，进一步阐明了我们所谓的“文化假设”：不同文化和地区找到不同的订购空间方式的可能性。
Cities are different around the world, but does this fact have any relation to culture? The idea that urban form embodies idiosyncrasies related to cultural identities captures the imagination of many in urban studies, but it is an assumption yet to be carefully examined. Approaching spatial configurations in the built environment as a proxy of urban culture, this paper searches for differences potentially consistent with specific regional cultures or cultures of planning in urban development. It does so focusing on the elementary components shaping cities: buildings and how they are aggregated in cellular complexes of built form. Exploring Shannon's work, we introduce an entropy measure to analyse the probability distribution of cellular arrangements in built form systems. We apply it to downtown areas of 45 cities from different regions of the world as a similarity measure to compare and cluster cities potentially consistent with specific spatial cultures. Findings suggest a classification scheme that sheds further light on what we call the "cultural hypothesis": the possibility that different cultures and regions find different ways of ordering space.
