How street orientation changes can affect the cognitive perception of an area to a user. Areas of similarly oriented street grids (or lack of a coherent street grid) are more likely to be ‘districts of common character’. Street legibility is measured here as a factor of street length, connectivity and the variance in bearing.
This indicator will support practitioners to understand the street hierarchy, visual interest and coherence of a street network. Based on the outcome of the assessment, practitioners can determine whether considerations on road layout should be made in their project or design.
Practitioners can use the street legibility metric to measure the legibility of a street by assessing the factors of length, connectivity and straightness.
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To measure the legibility of a street, which is an indicator of a street network’s coherence, walkability and pedestrian ease of navigation