Operationalising the ‘Movement and Place’ framework: from functional to configurational street types in urban design and planning practice

Journal article, 2026

Street design guidelines aim to balance the two dimensions of streets, as movement corridors and as public places. The widely adopted Movement and Place framework seeks to integrate these dimensions but overlooks the configurational and multiscalar nature of streets. Drawing on space syntax and the theory of natural movement, this paper extends the framework by defining street types through network centrality: closeness (place) and betweenness (movement). Gothenburg is used as case study to demonstrate how this approach addresses these two gaps, resolving transport-oriented biases to support pedestrian-oriented street design, particularly in early planning stages and in data-scarce urban contexts.