Integrating space syntax with field observations to understand the spatial logic of park infrastructure

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Figure 1. Spatial layouts of the nine case study public parks in Greater Cairo. For colour illustrations, please refer to the electronic version of the article.

Figure 2. An example of a hypothetical park layout (a), permeability between spaces (b), and justified graphs for space 1 and space 5.

Figure 3. Justified permeability graphs for the nine parks drawn from the main entrance. For colour illustrations, please refer to the electronic version of the article.

Figure 4. Global integration (a) and connectivity (b) for the nine parks. For colour illustrations, please refer to the electronic version of the article.

Figure 5. Control (a) and controllability (b) for the nine parks. For colour illustrations, please refer to the electronic version of the article.

Figure 6. Relativised entropy for the nine parks. For colour illustrations, please refer to the electronic version of the article.

Figure 7. Boxplots of different syntactic attributes for the nine parks.

Figure 8. Number of observed visitors in Al-Dawlyia park (left) and Al-Azhar park (right). notes: the pie charts are the locations of the virtual gates where the counts were taken. For colour illustrations, please refer to the electronic version of the article.

Figure A1. Locations of the nine selected parks within Greater Cairo Region.

Table A1. The demographic characteristics of the neighbourhoods within which the selected parks are located based on CAPMAS (2017), Mohamed and Stanek (2021), and Aly and Dimitrijevic, (2022b).

Park name	Park area (m^2)	No. of entrances	District name	Neigh. population	Neigh. population density (Pop/Km^2)	Neigh. Socio-economic composition
Al-Dawlyia	210,000	3	Awal Nasr City	14,699	13,449	Middle to high
Al-Azhar	300,000	2	El_Darb El_Ahmar	3,052	5,137	Low to middle
Al-Osra	294,000	2	El_ Tagamoa El_Awal Thani El_ Qahera El_Gidida	63,730	2,017	High
Safari	159,600	3	Imbaba	90,373	47,992	Middle
Al-Tefl	92,400	2	Awal Nasr City	80,313	24,848	High
Rod Al-Farag	42,000	1	Rod Al-Farag	16,625	52,812	Low
Aquarium Grotto	39,900	1	El_Zamalek	2,992	10,071	High
Al-Horyia	31,050	1	El_Zamalek	1,392	899	High
Al-Asher	34,000	2	Thani Nasr City	5,435	11,206	Middle to high

Table A2. Space assessment predictors used in this study.

Predictor	Description
Connectivity	The higher the value, the higher the permeability of the space.
Global integration	The higher the value, the closer the space to all other spaces.
Control	The higher the value, the higher the influence the space has over its neighbouring spaces as a space to move to.
Controllability	The higher the value, the easier the space can be visually dominated.
Relativised entropy	The higher the value, the higher the expected distribution of spaces from a potential origin.

Table A3. Pearson correlation analysis between configurational attributes and movement observations.

	Al-Dawlyia Park (n = 42)		Al-Azhar Park (n = 39)
	Correlation (R)	p-value	Correlation (R)	p-value
Step depth from the main entrance	0.0748	−0.2780	−0.5230**	0.0006
Global integration	0.5682**	0.0000	0.2567	0.1197
Connectivity	−0.0768	0.6287	0.4121*	0.0102
Control	−0.0705	0.6574	0.4240**	0.0080
Controllability	−0.2052	0.1923	0.2492	0.1314
Relativised Entropy	−0.5173**	0.0005	−0.2538	0.1242

Notes: *represents significance at the 5 % level of confidence; **represents significance at the 1% level of confidence.

Table A4. Multiple regression analysis with the number of observed walking visitors and predictor variables in Al-Azhar park.

Predictor variables	Coef.	Std. Err.	t	p>|t|	Beta	VIF
Step depth	−155.735	49.55007	−3.14	0.003**	−0.4441068	1.09
Control	169.2589	81.12205	2.09	0.044*	0.2948206	1.09

Notes: *represents significance at the 5 % level of confidence; **represents significance at the 1% level of confidence.

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