Studies on the quarters of traditional Arab Islamic cities have stressed the idea of an urban structure that corresponds to social groupings and to a collection of local regions or even of “inchoate” neighborhood units. This spatial model has often provided the rationale for the intervention in these cities and in the design of new housing layouts. This study aims to examine this issue through syntactic measures and observations to describe and analyze the structure and morphology of quarters through connectivity and visibility analysis of pedestrian movement through space syntax. Whether the structure of these cities presents a global whole in contrast to the assumptions of physical subareas of social groupings is discussed. The city of Damascus is used as a model of analysis in which the urban morphology of quarters is described and characterized. This study reports several findings that are potentially relevant to the understanding of traditional laws that relate the physical layout of quarters to the social structure and their local subareas to the global whole that dominate and unify the parts. On this basis, the design approach in these cities may be better understood.

对传统阿拉伯伊斯兰城市的四分之一的研究强调了一种城市结构的想法，该结构与社会群体，地方区域甚至“早期”邻里单位的集合相对应。这种空间模型通常为干预这些城市和设计新的住房布局提供了依据。这项研究的目的是通过语法措施和观察来研究这个问题，以通过空间句法对行人运动的连通性和可见性进行分析和描述，来分析和分析宿舍的结构和形态。讨论了这些城市的结构是否与社会团体的物理分区相比，具有全球整体性。大马士革市被用作分析模型，其中描述和表征了宿舍的城市形态。这项研究报告了一些发现，这些发现可能与传统法律的理解有关，这些传统法律将宿舍的物理布局与社会结构联系起来，而其局部分区与支配和统一这些部分的全球整体联系起来。在此基础上，可以更好地理解这些城市的设计方法。