ROLLING THE CITY

滚动城市

Tracing the Skaters’ Communities Networks of Practice in London

追踪伦敦滑冰运动员的社区网络实践

Ana Cristina Rodriguez Bautista

KEYWORDS: space syntax, social network analysis, network, practice, skateboarding, communities.

关键词：空间句法、社会网络分析、网络、实践、滑板、社区

本文来自第十二届空间句法背景会议

【zjut空间句法课程作业】

Abstract

摘要

The ideas and procedures of space syntax have rarely been applied to skating, hence the combination of Borden research on the skateboarding culture (Borden, 2018), the spatial practices described by Beal’s observations (Beal, 2015) and the Koohsari studies on accessibility to open spaces with space syntax techniques served as the main theoretical guideline of this dissertation (Koohsari et al., 2013). Tracing the movement patterns of London’s skaters and their election of a location for their sports practice have been the motivation for the development of this research. Skating in London has a historical and worldwide famous spot underneath the Southbank Centre. Nevertheless, the existence of sixty-one skateparks in the city raised the initial research question of how the skateboarding phenomenon is spatially shaped in London. The combination of space syntax techniques with social network analysis gave as main output which skateparks are chosen by the members of the skater community.

空间句法的思考方法和程序步骤很少应用于滑冰，因此，结合了Borden（Borden,2018）对滑板文化的研究、Beal（Beal,015）的观察对空间实践的描述以及Koohsari（Koohsari et al,2013）利用空间句法技术对开放空间可达性的研究成为了本文的主要理论主导思想。追踪伦敦滑冰运动员的运动模式和他们选择的空间场所一直是这项研究的动机。在伦敦南岸中心之下有一个历史悠久的世界著名的滑冰场。然而，城市中存在的61个滑冰公园的存在引起了研究的初步问题，即在空间上，伦敦的滑冰显现是如何形成的。结合空间句法技术和社会网络分析得出了滑冰群体成员如何选择公园的主要结论。

The study of the spatial practices of skaters in London from the metropolitan scale, the identification of the most popular skatepark, the preferred shared location and the final mapping of the interaction and performance of the skateparks users correspond the main finding of this dissertation. This study thus offers a model for the rigorous evaluation of the popularity of any location frequented by a specified social group. Furthermore, the main contribution of this dissertation is the proposal of a method towards the construction of the skater’s social networks of practice driven by the answers of the users of the space.

对于伦敦滑冰爱好者的实际空间研究从大都市的尺度着手分析，包括最受欢迎的滑冰公园的选择，首选的共享场所，以及最后的交往和表演的滑冰场所，用户的反映于本文的观点基本趋于一致。因此，本项研究提供了一个模型用以严格评估一个特定的社会群体经常光顾的地点的受欢迎程度。此外，本论文的主要贡献是提供了一种方法，即以空间使用者的回答为驱动，构建滑冰运动员的实践社交网络。

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