Elek Pafka

Mapping the publicness of public space

Kim Dovey, Elek Pafka

Book Chapter  |  2020

What does the “right to the city” mean with regard to everyday life in public space? The distinction between public and private sp..

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

Elek Pafka

Journal article  |  2020  |  Urban Design International

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..

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..

Book Review: Soft City by David Sim, 2019, Island Press

Elek Pafka

Journal article  |  2020  |  Built Environment

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..

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,..