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Thanks Bill. This is great!!!

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> From: Professor Bill Hillier [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 5:25 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: self organisation & morphogenesis and the structure of
> human sett lements
>
> Dear Anthony - There are quite a few papers in the Space Syntax Symposia
> Proceeedings which address thes issues, though not always under the title
> of 'self-organising systems'. But in a sense, a good deal of the space
> syntax stuff about cities is about self-organisation, though it doesn't
> call itself that. It's about how multi-agent distributed processes spread
> over decades or centuries create well-formed emergent patterns with both
> invariants and differences. So in a sense, it's a theory of the 'organic'
> city. You should browse the web-sites for the last two symposia
>
> As far as the things I have written myslf are concerned, a key recent text
> is my first paper to the Third Symposium called 'A theory of the city as
> object' http://undertow.arch.gatech.edu/homepages/3sss/ which tries to
> give
> some account of how the spatial patterns formed by the aggregation of
> buildings acquire certain kind of emergent structure. This  builds on
> earlier papers which describe between them how emergent space structure in
> cities shapes the processes of movement, land use patterns and centre and
> sub-centre formation in cities. The sequence of papers is:
>
> Hillier B et al (1993) Natural movement: or configuration and attraction
> in
> urban pedestrian movement - Environment & Planning B: Planning & Design
> 20,
> 29-66
>
> Hillier B (1996) - Cities as movement economies in Urban Design
> International Vol 1 No 1 pp49-60 E & F.N.Spon. Also Chapter 4 of Space is
> the Machine.
>
> Hillier B (2000) Centrality as a process: accounting for attraction
> inequalities in deformed grids Urban Design International, 3/4, 107-127
>
> Hillier B (2002) A theory of the city as object: how the social
> construction of urban space is mediated by spatial laws Urban Design
> International  7, 153-159)
>
> Also relevant are
>
> Hillier B et al (2000) Self-generated neighbourhood consolidation in
> informal settlements (with Margarita Greene and Jake Desyllas) Urban
> Design
> International ISSN 1357 5317 vol 5 no 2 61-96
>
> Hillier B (1999) The hidden geometry of deformed grids: or, why space
> syntax works, when it looks as though it shouldn't Environment and
> Planning
> B: Planning & Design, 26, 169-191
>
> Self-orgnaisation issues are also dealt with in in different way in my two
> paper to the Fourth Symposium:
>
> Hillier B (2003a) The architectures of seeing and going Paper to the
> Fourth
> Space Synyax Symposium, London, June 2003.
>
> Hillier B (2003b) The knowledge that shapes the city Paper to the Fourth
> Space Syntax Symposium, London, June 2003
>
> both of which can be downloaded from www.spacesyntax.net or
> www.spacesyntax.org/
>
>  - Bill
>
>
>
> >I am studying how the theories of self organisation & morphogenesis could
> >help our understanding of the structure of human settlements. Obviously,
> >space syntax theories would be useful in this regard. Has any research
> been
> >done in this area.
> >
> >Anthony
> >
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