USING SKELETONS OF URBAN SHAPE TO MODEL SOCIAL CAPITAL IN LITHUNANIA

How and to what extent does the environment affect people’s behavior? This study focuses on a narrow and specialized statistical indicator describing human sociability – social capital, and an easily replicable method of researching the urban environment – the skeleton analysis of the urban form. Social capital is a growing in popularity and important statistical indicator which describes social environment of the place. Shape skeleton analysis allow us to model how a person perceives shapes. In this study, social capital is measured by the Putnam methodology adapted to Lithuania, and the shape skeleton methodology of the urban form is adapted based on psychological research. Artificial intelligence methods using data from urban form generated prediction which had statistically weak relationship with social capital.