Social Logic of Space

Space Syntax is a method for describing and analysing the relationships between spaces of urban areas and buildings.
(http://www.arch.chalmers.se/
tema/stadsbyggnad/glossary.pdf
)


Hillier, B. and Hanson, J. (1984). The Social Logic of Space. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521367840.

The book presents a new theory of space: how and why it is a vital component of how societies work. The theory is developed on the basis of a new way of describing and analysing the kinds of spatial patterns produced by buildings and towns. The methods are explained so that anyone interested in how towns or buildings are structured and how they work can make use of them. The book also presents a new theory of societies and spatial systems, and what it is about different types of society that leads them to adopt fundamentally different spatial forms. From this general theory, the outline of a 'pathology of modern urbanism' in today's social context is developed.
(http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/
0521367840/028-1362419-8070103?
v=glance&n=52044011
)

links

http://www.spacesyntax.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_syntax
http://www.arch.chalmers.se/
tema/stadsbyggnad/glossary.pd
f

literature

Hillier, B. & Hanson, J. (1984). The Social Logic of Space. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521367840.

[close]