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Using real-place simulation, one can reliably determine the optimal dimensions and orientations of urban spaces.

Assertion that the Oakland experiments show the method's reliability.

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Findings (3)

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Minor street optimal width 9 meters, widening to 11 meters at the mouth (Oakland simulation)
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The minor street intersecting the main 18m street should be no more than 9m wide, with a slight widening to about 11m at the mouth to form a good T-junction.
Optimal main street width determined to be 18 meters in Oakland simulation for Frankfurt project
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Through real-place simulation in Oakland, California, for the Frankfurt Parkstadt project, a width of 18 meters felt right (20m too wide, 16m too narrow) for an east-west main street with 3-4 story buildings.
Wide sidewalk should be on the south side of an east-west street for visual comfort (Oakland simulation)
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Standing on the north side looking south into the sun was uncomfortable, while the south side looking north at sunlit buildings was comfortable; therefore the wide sidewalk was placed on the south.

Related by similarity (8)

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Real-place simulationmethod0.787
A method of using existing, similar streets or places to simulate and judge the dimensions and qualities of a proposed space by standing there, using markers, and walking through.
Computer simulations cannot yet provide the level of subtlety or depth to judge the visceral effect of complex building spaces; therefore they cannot replace real-world step-by-step feedback.claim0.779
Limitation of current simulation technology in capturing life-quality of spaces.
The Guasare simulation showed that the defined process generates coherent, complex, and variable morphology for houses, streets, lots and gardens even without influence from external factors such as land and topographyfinding0.767
Key validation that the process itself — not just site conditions — generates living structure.
Repeated use of the fundamental process will typically generate irregular streets following contours, polygonal lots, long-narrow houses adjusted to lot lines, positively-shaped gardens, and overall lot designs composed of separate adjacent portionsclaim0.758
Alexander's enumeration of the predictable morphological outcomes of the dynamic process across scales.
If the conception of life is completely general (degree of life in everything), it will be much easier to design buildings, towns, and regions that are alive.hypothesis0.752
Pragmatic motivation for the entire book: a broader definition enables effective creation of life.
The strict version of the simulation objective is optimized by the actual time evolution rule that created the training samples.claim0.752
Equivalence of optimal predictor to the physics of the data.
The human capacity to recognize and evaluate agency is well-tuned for medium sized objects at medium speeds in 3D space, but not adapted to unfamiliar guises and problem spaces.claim0.749
Claim about the limits of human intuition for detecting intelligence/sentience.
The precise placement of windows can only be judged well in the real world, because subtle interactions with the wholeness cannot be captured in drawings.claim0.748
Example that vital fine-tuning depends on in-situ perception of the actual emerging structure.