Syntactic measures have shown that conceptual designs have different spatial and social patterns both at global and local scales. The objective was to address a comparative study of structural properties of the urban street networks in order to speculate some implications on social life of each neighborhood. The network was then analyzed in terms of the mathematical properties of the graph. Based on space syntax methodology the street network was represented both as convex spaces and axial lines as nodes of a graph. The authors propose a configurational analysis of street networks of two urban plans designed according to different city ideologies and historical background. It explores the concepts of " tree " and " semi-lattice " as two different ways of looking and thinking about the structure of cities, each one generating a different form of life and community place (Alexander, 1965). This study examines patterns of order and structure in street networks and its relationships with spatial life of two urban neighborhoods (housing estates).
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