Elek Pafka

Mapping the publicness of public space

Kim Dovey, Elek Pafka

Book Chapter  |  2020

Multi-scalar urban densities: from the metropolitan to the street level

Elek Pafka

Journal article  |  2020  |  URBAN DESIGN International

Limits of space syntax for urban design: Axiality, scale and sinuosity

Elek Pafka, Kim Dovey, Gideon DPA Aschwanden

Journal article  |  2020  |  Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science

Space syntax analysis of the city as a movement economy has made major contributions to our understanding of the spatial structure..

Mapping the ‘beat’: the urban morphologies of Melbourne’s evolving live music clusters

Ran Pan, Elek Pafka

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Urban Design

This paper explores how morphological conditions have mediated the evolution of live music venues in Melbourne. Three inner-city c..

What is walkability? The urban DMA

K Dovey, E Pafka

Journal article  |  2019  |  Urban Studies

The concept of urban 'walkability' has come to occupy a key role at the nexus of a series of multidisciplinary fields connecting u..

AwaP-IC—An Open-Source GIS Tool for Measuring Walkable Access

Ivan Majic, Elek Pafka

Journal article  |  2019  |  Urban Science

Within the broad field of walkability research, a key area of focus has been the relationship between urban form and capacities fo..

Towards a genealogy of urban shopping: types, adaptations and resilience

Fujie Rao, Kim Dovey, Elek Pafka

Journal article  |  2018  |  JOURNAL OF URBAN DESIGN

This typological account of the urban morphology of shopping presents a diagrammatic genealogy of urban retail types from traditio..

Urban Design Pedagogy

E Pafka, K Dovey

Book Chapter  |  2018

This chapter is an account of the use of urban mapping to introduce undergraduate students to spatial analysis and urban design th..

Agglomeration and assemblage: Deterritorialising urban theory

K Dovey, F Rao, E Pafka

Journal article  |  2018  |  Urban Studies

In two recent papers Storper and Scott have sought to counter the rise of assemblage thinking in urban studies, suggesting it is i..

What is functional mix? An assemblage approach

K Dovey, E Pafka

Journal article  |  2017  |  Planning Theory and Practice

Functional or land-use mix has been seminal to urban design and planning for over 50 years. Mixed-use reduces the need for travel,..