Using skeletons of urban shape to model social capital in Lithunania
Abstract
How and to what extent does the environment affect people’s behavior? This study focuses on a narrow and specialized statistical indicator describing human sociability – social capital, and an easily replicable method of researching the urban environment – the skeleton analysis of the urban form. Social capital is a growing in popularity and important statistical indicator which describes social environment of the place. Shape skeleton analysis allow us to model how a person perceives shapes. In this study, social capital is measured by the Putnam methodology adapted to Lithuania, and the shape skeleton methodology of the urban form is adapted based on psychological research. Artificial intelligence methods using data from urban form generated prediction which had statistically weak relationship with social capital.
Article in Lithuanian.
Lietuvos socialinio kapitalo modeliavimas taikant urbanistinės formos skeleto metodą
Santrauka
Kaip ir kiek aplinka veikia žmonių elgesį? Šiame tyrime koncentruojamasi į siaurą ir specializuotą žmonių visuomeniškumą apibūdinantį statistinį rodiklį – socialinį kapitalą ir nesunkiai pakartojamą urbanistinės aplinkos tyrimo būdą – urbanistinės formos skeleto analizę. Socialinis kapitalas yra populiarėjantis ir svarbus statistinis vietovės rodiklis, apibūdinantis socialinę aplinką. Formos skeleto analizės tyrimai, supaprastintai galima sakyti, leidžia modeliuoti, kaip žmogus suvokia formą. Šiame tyrime socialinis kapitalas išmatuojamas adaptuota Lietuvai Putnamo metodika, o urbanistinės formos skeleto metodologija pritaikyta remiantis psichologijos tyrimais. Modeliuoti taikant dirbtinio intelekto metodus buvo rastas statistiškai silpnas ryšys tarp urbanistinės formos ir socialinio kapitalo.
Reikšminiai žodžiai: socialinis kapitalas, urbanistinė forma, formos skeletas, parametrizacija, formos suvokimas, modeliavimas.
Keyword : social capital, urban form, shape skeleton, parameterization, shape perception, modeling
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