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..

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..

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..

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 & 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,..

Functional mix

K Dovey, E Pafka

Book Chapter  |  2017

The concept of functional mix has long been seminal to urban design thinking, primarily for the ways it shortens distances between..

Walkable Access

Elek Pafka, Kim Dovey

Book Chapter  |  2017

This chapter explores the ways in which walkable access is mediated by the urban morphology of public space networks, together wit..

Streetlife rhythms

E Pafka

Book Chapter  |  2017

Lefebvre's call for a 'rhythmanalysis' of the city has long inspired urban thinking, but like most texts on space it lacks any spe..

Integration is not Walkability: The limits of axial topological analysis at neighbourhood scale

E Pafka

Conference Proceedings  |  2017  |  Proceedings - 11th International Space Syntax Symposium, SSS 2017

Spatial syntax analysis has become an influential method of analysing street networks as spaces of pedestrian movement. While sign..

Permeability and interface catchment: measuring and mapping walkable access

E Pafka, K Dovey

Journal article  |  2017  |  Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability

The relationship between urban morphology and walkability is central to urban design theory and practice. In this paper, we develo..

Mapping urbanities: Morphologies, flows, possibilities

K Dovey, E Pafka, M Ristic

Book  |  2017

Densities

K Dovey, E Pafka

Book Chapter  |  2017

Mapping as spatial knowledge

K Dovey, M Ristic, E Pafka

Book Chapter  |  2017

The City as a Mix of Mixes

K DOVEY, E Pafka

Book Chapter  |  2016

The science of urban design?

K Dovey, E Pafka

Journal article  |  2016  |  URBAN DESIGN International

In a provocative paper Marshall (2012) suggests that a range of seminal urban design theories stemming from the 1960s – Jacobs, Al..

The urban density assemblage: Modelling multiple measures

Kim Dovey, Elek Pafka

Journal article  |  2014  |  Urban Design International

Coding for Corridors: Prospects for Tram Corridor Intensification in Melbourne

IS Woodcock, KG Dovey, LL Pike, E Pafka, S Murray, L Khor, R Pasman, T Morgan

Conference Proceedings  |  2013  |  State of Australian Cities (SOAC) National Conference 2013

Nothing Gained by Only Counting Dwellings Per Hectare: A Hundred Years of Confusing Urban Densities

E PAFKA

Conference Proceedings  |  2013  |  State of Australian Cities (SOAC) National Conference 2013

Urban density measures are broadly used in urban planning as tools for calculating development yields, defining indicative targets..

Places as Intersecting Flows: Mapping Urban Morphologies, Functional Constellations and Pedestrian Activity Rhythms

E PAFKA

Conference Proceedings  |  2013

Starting from an open and dynamic conception of place as a socio-spatial and temporal assemblage, this paper explores high density..