Marine garden city and space syntax analysis of settlements (case study: Bandar Abbas)

The importance of the coastal spatial identity has not only clarified the dynamics of the economic and communication role of the coasts, which also defines new ideas in the structure of future cities. Modeling the spatial syntax of the coastal areas of southern Iran promises an emerging social configuration that will have a different spatial identity from other configurations. This social configuration is nature-based and eco-based and has international role. In this research, modeling and discovering the spatial syntax relationships of such a configuration, relying on environmental rules and phenomenological perspective, are developed and discussed. Therefore, the new settlement named here as a marine garden city, is the result of such assessment. Spatial syntax analysis has been conceptualized, formulated and modeled by looking at the geodemographic space of the mangrove marine ecosystem on the northern shores of the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman at the levels of spatial syntax, array and layers, and explained at three levels: conceptual, mathematical and graphical. Spatio-graphs with fractal and non-fractal structures is used to index the depth and degree of relationship between spatial components and in the syntax of spatial patterns, compression, distance, scattering and distribution arrays are considered and Conceptual models have become experimental models using quantitative and mathematical data.The results of this study show:Analysis and perception of the geodemographic space can be effective in the fundamental land-use, identity and discovering the existing relationships between the configurations and their development.