Characterization of the street networks in the traditional Turkish urban form

In this paper, we use the question "what is the true nature of traditional street networks in Turkish cities?" to test different quantitative methods of urban morphological analysis. Traditional Turkish street networks are ch aracterized by discriminant functions of several space-syntax-related indic es, as well as by image-analysis and graph-theoretical indices. A set of sp ace-syntactic indices is found to be powerful enough to distinguish the tra ditional street network among others, particularly axial ringiness, implyin g that the formation of large blocks is a typical feature. The relative abu ndance of closed-end edges is found to be another important feature of the traditional street network.