variety of land uses, particularly the commercial land uses that line along the main roads, as well as the closest residential clusters to each respective space. Subsequently, we can extrapolate that these four main spaces are crucial community nodes that experience traffic of all sorts - ranging from commercial to residential. They may also play a role in helping businesses maintain visibility and connectivity, which leads to the next portion of our analysis. Analysis 3: Finding the relationship between connectivity of roads and open spaces Also using Depthmapx, we calculated a connectivity map of the road network, which indicated the connectivity values of each road segment (how many other nodes each road is connected to). In conjunction with this spatial syntax connectivity analysis, we took the connectivity values of the road segments immediately surrounding each open space. From there, we weighted the values by the number of segments there were to see which open spaces were the most connected.
Figure 13. Overlay of major open spaces within Sector IV and connectivity analysis map
The following table calculates the total connectivity values of all the road segments adjacent to each open space.
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