Dear David - Very much appreciated. What did you make of my two papers to
the Fourth Symposium ('The knowledge that shapes the city' and "The
architectures of seeing and going'- available on www.spacesyntax.net/ in
the Proceedings), which both try to put the human subject centre stage in
the syntactic study of cities ? (I've recently simplified and re-worked
the first half of the second, by the way, and hope to make it available
shortly). This is of course only part of the more general movement within
the syntax community to bring syntactic ideas into a closer relation to
cognitive studies, for example in the recent special issue of Envirnment
and Behaviour edited by Zimring and Conroy-Dalton ?
By the way, I have no problem with your 'person is world, world is person'
re-formulation' of 'environment is behaviour', and I think I make this more
clear in the way I would now present the foundations of space syntax. I
think my hesitancy about phenomenology always lay in the fact that many
phenomenological schools of thought would be unhappy in principle about the
idea that we might learn to describe the 'person-world' from the world's
point of view, which is what space syntax tries to do. But it is exactly
the presence and shape of the human in the 'objective' world that we are
trying to capture. - Bill
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>Some members might be interested in a review of Bill Hillier s SPACE IS
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><http://www.arch.ksu.edu/seamon/Hillier_machine.htm>http://www.arch.ksu.edu/sea
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>An earlier phenomenological commentary I wrote on space syntax is
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>I recently completed a book chapter comparing and contrasting urban place
>making as presented in the work of Hillier, Christopher Alexander, and
>Daniel Kemmis. I ll gladly forward a digital version if anyone is
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>I appreciate the discussion on this list serve.
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>Dr. David Seamon
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