From the time cities first evolved, they have been subject to human intervention at every
level of activity–in other words they have been designed. The following paper argues that …

Characterising and predicting socio-spatial experience has long been a key research
question in space syntax research. Due to the lack of synthesised knowledge about it, this …

Life Takes Place argues that, even in our mobile, hypermodern world, human life is
impossible without place. Seamon asks the question: why does life take place? He draws on …

The Form of Cities offers readers a considered theoretical introduction to the art of designing
cities. Demonstrates that cities are replete with symbolic values, collective memory …

In How Humans Cooperate, Richard E. Blanton and Lane F. Fargher take a new approach to
investigating human cooperation, developed from the vantage point of an" anthropological …

Space syntax is a set of theories and techniques about buildings and cities and how they
function, rooted in a theory of society and space that originated at the UCL Bartlett School of …

Examines some of the research agendas that have developed from the concept of the
spatial structure of environment and behavior, particularly those associated with" space …

A series of recent papers (Hillier et al, 1993; Hillier, 1996b, 2000) have outlined a generic
process by which spatial configurations, through their effect on movement, first shape, and …

The distribution of pedestrian movement by street segment in three areas in Atlanta is
modeled in relation to measures of street connectivity and land use. Although land use …

A series of recent papers (Hillier et al 1993, Hillier 1996b, Hillier 2000) have outlined a
generic process by which spatial configurations, through their effect on movement, first …