主要观点

既有理论把人行与车行运动的模式归因与城市形态，即土地利用“吸引”流量。而本文以证据支持一种新的组构范式。这种范式认为城市网格形态的一种主要特征会使一些空间比另一些空间对穿越式运动更具优先性。文章建议，城市网络本身是运动模式的主要动力来源。

Existing theories relating patterns of pedestrian and vehicular movement to urban form characterise the problem in terms of flows to and from 'attractor' land uses. This paper contains evidence in support of a new 'configurational' paradigm in which a primary property of the form of the urban grid is to privilege certain spaces over others for through movement. In this way it is suggested that the configuration of the urban grid itself is the main generator of patterns of movement.

在由网络组构关系塑造的基础自然运动模式基础上，进而妥善排布商业性土地利用，以充分利用过往商业，并起到“倍增器”的作用。

Retail land uses are then located to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the passing trade and may well act as multipliers on the basic pattern of 'natural movement' generated by the grid configuration. 

与运动模式相关连的度量是网络的整体性特征，即空间句法的“整合度”度量，在多个案例中它体现出一致性的重要地位。

The configurational correlates of movement patterns are found to be measures of global properties of the grid with the 'space syntax' measure of 'integration' consistently found to be the most important. 

研究对设计的启示

对城市设计而言，本文具有清晰的隐含意义：如果我们想设计能被充分利用的城市空间，最为关键性的并不是空间的局部特征，而在于该空间与更大范围城市系统的组构关系。

This has clear implications for urban design suggesting that if we wish to design for well used urban space, then it is not the local properties of a space that are important in the main but its configurational relations to the larger urban system.