Anthropological measurement of modern city space

An Anthropological Perspective: Another Dimension to Modern Dental Wear Concepts

For many years, research on tooth wear by dental academics has been diametrically opposite to that of anthropological research, with each discipline having a different understanding as to the nature of the wear processes. Dental focus revolved around preventive and restorative considerations while the anthropological focus was a biological understanding related to human evolution, diet, environ...

Sacred and Profane Space in the Modern Russian City: A Choice of Russian Jews

A profound transformation of the cultural memory in the former Soviet Union has resulted in deep changes in the cultural identities of all Soviet—and ex-Soviet—ethnic and religious groups. This transformation led to a change of perceptions about sacred and profane spaces and the connections of these spaces to the urban landscape. As a result of complex historical and cultural processes, contemp...

Euclidean Space of City Space Syntax

We demonstrate that random walks embed connected undirected graphs into Euclidean space, in which distances and angles acquire the clear statistical interpretation. Being defined on the spatial network of Venetian canals, random walks afford a portrait of the city space syntax and measure its intelligibility. In the present Letter, we investigate the spatial network of 96 canals in Venice (that...

Fundamentals of Modern Audio Measurement

Portraying the City in Early Modern Europe: Measurement, Representation, and Planning

The Renaissance saw an explosion in the production of images of cities. One estimate puts at about thirty the number of city views with a geographically identifiable subject made before 1490.1 A century later, the same category was so large that no one has counted the images from that period. The six volumes of the Civitates orbis terrarum that Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg produced between 1...