Professor Bill Hillier wrote:
>Dear Jake - Space syntax is the application of 'configurational' measures
>to spatial systems represented as sets of discrete geometrical elements,
>whether points, lines, convex elements, isovists, or whatever.
>'Configurational' means 'extrinsic' measures of the relations between each
>geometrical element and all others, or well-defind subsets of them. So
>Benedicts isovists are not space syntax, but Depthmap is. This is the idea
>set out in 'The Social Logic of Space' and it seems to cover the ground. -
>Bill
>
>
Dear Bill,
Thanks for this, it is a very clear and useful definition. However, do
you think it might become a bit limiting to define the research in terms
of the tools being used, rather than the social questions that are of
interest? Isn’t there some shared research field that both Benedikt’s
work and your work might be said to contribute to?
By the way, what do you think about Braaksma and Cook’s work on
visibility graphs? Would you say that it is part of space syntax
research or would you call it something else?
Kind regards,
Jake
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