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LIST OF SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

 

Please note that this publications/conference papers page is currently under construction and does not represent a full and complete listing. If you are aware of a relevant bibliography reference (especially from the 1970's or 1980's) which should appear on this page, please email the full reference to Space Syntax London ( info@spacesyntax.com). Thank you.

1999

Arruda Campos, M.B. (1999) All That Meets The Eye: Overlapping Isovists as a Tool for Understanding Preferable Location of Static People in Public Squares . In Space Syntax Second International Symposium, Brasilia: Universidade de Brasilia.

Penn, A., J. Desyllas, and L. Vaughan. 1999. The space of innovation: interaction and communication in the work environment. Environment and Planning B-Planning & Design 26, no. 2:193-218.

Hillier, Bill, 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, no. 2:169-191.

Hillier, B. The need for domain theories. Environment and Planning B-Planning & Design 26, no. 2:163-167.

Hillier, Bill, (forthcoming), The Common Language of Space: a way of looking at the social, economic and environmental functioning of cities on a common basis.

Hillier, Bill, MD Major and L Amorim, eds, (forthcoming), Theme Issue on Space Syntax in Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Major, MD and B Hillier, eds, (forthcoming), Special Issue on Space Syntax in Computers, Environments and Urban Systems

Arruda Campos, M.B.All That Meets The Eye: Overlapping Isovists as a Tool for Understanding Preferable Location of Static People in Public Squares . In Space Syntax Second International Symposium, Bras?lia: Universidade de Bras?lia.

1998

Penn, A., B. Hillier, D. Banister, and J. Xu. 1998. Configurational modelling of urban movement networks. Environment and Planning B-Planning & Design 25, no. 1:59-84.

Stonor, Tim, 'Auf die Methode kommt es an: Space Syntax' (Space Syntax - a methodical approach) in Topos, Issue 25, December 1998

Hillier, Bill,  T Stonor, M D Major and N Spende, 'From Research to Design: Re-engineering the Space of Trafalgar Square' in Urban Design Quarterly, Issue 68, October 1998

Hanson, Julienne (1998), Decoding Houses and Homes, Cambridge University Press

Hanson, Julienne and B Hillier (1998), Space Syntax as a Research Programme, 'Viewpoint' for Urban Morphology, Vol 1, No. 3, 3 pp.

Major, MD, T Stonor and A Penn (1998) 'Passengers, Pedestrians and Shoppers: Space Syntax in Design' in Passenger Terminal World, April 1998

Major, MD (1998) 'Seeing and Understanding: Observing Space Use and Movement in Our Cities', Paper given to the Winterschool 98, Sheffield, England, 5-9 January 1998


1997

Arruda Campos, M.B. (1997) 'Strategic Spaces: Patterns of Use in Public Squares of the City of London'. In Space Syntax First International Symposium, London: University College London.

Croxford Ben and A Penn, (1997) 'Siting considerations for urban pollution monitors, forthcoming in Atmospheric Environment

Desyllas, Jake (1997) 'Berlin in Transition: Analysing the Relationship Between Land Use, Land Value and Urban Morphology' from Space Syntax - First International Symposium Proceedings, Volume 1, pp 04.1 - 04.15, also forthcoming in Special Issue on Space Syntax in Environment and Planning B

Hanson, Julienne (1997), 'The Future of the Built Environment', Millennium Interim Paper for Age Concern England, December 1997, 75 pp.

Hanson, Julienne and A Elgohary (1997), 'In search of a spatial culture', Chapter 6 of eds. Awotona and Teymur, Tradition, Location and Community : place making and development, Avebury, Aldershot, 1997, pp. 81-120.

Hillier, Bill (1997), 'Why Space Syntax Works' from Space Syntax - First International Symposium Proceedings, Volume 3, also forthcoming in Special Issue on Space Syntax in Environment and Planning B.

Hillier, B and M.D. Major (1997), 'The Question Does Compute: the role of the computer in space syntax', Space Syntax-First International Symposium Proceedings (Major M.D., L. Amorim and F. Dufaux, eds), Volume 3, pp. 42.1-42.7; also forthcoming in Special Issue on Space Syntax in Computers, Environments and Urban Systems

Karimi, Kayvan (1997) 'The Spatial Logic of Organic Cities' from Space Syntax - First International Symposium Proceedings, Volume 1, pp. 06.1 - 06.17, also forthcoming in Special Issue on Space Syntax in Computers, Environments and Urban Systems

Major, Mark David (1997) 'Building the American City', Paper given to Space Syntax-First International Symposium, 16-18 April 1997, UCL, London

Major MD, L. Amorim and F. Dufaux, eds (1997), Space Syntax-First International Symposium Proceedings, Volumes 1-3

Major M.D. and T Stonor (1997) 'Designing for Context', 24th Inter-Schools Conference on Urban Development, Edinburgh, 1997 Conference Proceedings (Leonard J.B., ed), Edinburgh College of Art/Heriot-Watt University, pp. 228-243

MD Major, T Stonor, A Penn and B Hillier (1997) 'Housing Design and the Virtual Community', Paper given to the 19th International Making Cities Livable Conference Children and Youth in the City: Housing forms and children Charleston, South Carolina USA 9-13 March 1997

Penn, Alan, J Desyllas and L Vaughan (1997) The space of innovation: Interaction and communication in the work environment, Proceedings of the Space Syntax - First International Symposium Proceedings, Volume 1, UCL, London, also forthcoming in Special Issue on Space Syntax in Environment and Planning B

Stonor Tim (1997) 'Making space: the use of space syntax in design' paper given to Space Syntax - First International Symposium Proceedings, 16-18 April 1997, UCL, London

· Arruda Campos, M.B. (1997) Strategic Spaces: Patterns of Use in Public Squares of the City of London. In Space Syntax First International Symposium, London: University College London.

1996

Hanson, Julienne (1996), 'The architecture of justice: iconography and space configuration in the English law court building', ARQ, No 4, Vol. 1, pp 50-59.

Hillier, B and A Penn (1996) 'Cities As Movement Economies' from Intelligent Environments

Hillier, Bill (1996) Space is the Machine Cambridge University Press

Hillier, Bill (1996) 'Cities As Movement Economies' from Urban Design International, March 1996, Vol 1 No 1 pp 41-60, 1996

Karimi, Kayvan (1996) 'The Problem of Historic Cores in Iranian Cities', in the University of Cincinnati's architectural magazine Openspace, published on the Internet: http://www.daap.uc.edu/~openspace/karimi/frame1.html

Major, MD, A Penn and B Hillier (1996) 'Housing Redevelopment to Improve Quality of the Built Environment', Paper given to Against Urban Decay Conference, Milan, 1996

Penn, Alan, P Treleaven, B Hillier, L Bull, R Conroy, N Dalton, L Dekker, C Mottram, and A Turner (1996) PANGEA v2.1b CD-ROM and Pangea User Manual, UCL, London, ISBN 0902137 38 7

Penn, Alan, P Treleaven, B Hillier, R Conroy, N Dalton, L Dekker, C Mottram, and A Turner (1996) Pangea: An Intelligent Workbench for Architectural Sketch Design Watson, I. & Morgan, A. (eds), The Intelligent Systems Integration Prgogramme ES96 Papers, SGES Pubs, Oxford, 1996, 127-139; ISBN 1 899621 14 8

Ni Riain, C, B Croxford, J Littler, and A Penn (1996)' City Space and Pollution Dispersion: A modelling and monitoring exercise' from The Compact City: A sustainable urban form?, edited by Jenks, M., Burton, E. & Williams, K., E & FN Spon, London, UK. ISBN 419213007

1995

Croxford, Ben, A Penn and B Hillier (1995) 'Spatial Distribution of Urban Pollution' from Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on Highway and Urban pollution, Copenhagen, May 1995.

Croxford, Ben and A Penn (1995) Pedestrian exposure to urban pollution: Exploratory results from Air Pollution III, Vol 2, pp 439-446, Computational Mechanics Publications, Southampton, 1995.

Hanson, Julienne (1995), 'Building a New Curriculum for Architecture', Chapter 15, in Saunders D (ed.) Simulations and Gaming Yearbook, 1995, Koan Page, pp. 163-171

Hanson, Julienne (1995), 'The New Academic', Spring 1995, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 12-13

Hillier, Bill. (1995) 'Seeing Buildings: or is architectural form meaningless?' Working paper

Hillier Bill, A Penn, N Dalton, D Chapman and F Redfern (1995) Graphical Knowledge Interfaces: the extensive and intensive use of precedent databases in architecture and urban design from Koutamanis, Timmermans and Vermeulen, Visual Databases in Architecture: recent advances in design decision making, Avebury, Aldershot, 1995, pp 197-227

Karimi, Kayvan, J Hanson (1995) 'An Analytical Appraisal of the Spatial Concepts in Iranian Historic Cities and their Transformation after Modernisation: a case study of the Iranian city of Shiraz' (with Julienne Hanson) in Cockburn Ramalashmi, (eds.) Proceedings of Development thro' Conservation, Towards Ongoing World Cities, University of York, 1995, pp 7-32

Major, MD, A Penn and B Hillier (1995)' Generating the Urban Buzz: The use of space syntax in the Foster and Rogers proposals for the South Bank', working paper

Orhum Denise, B Hillier and J Hanson (1995) 'Spatial Types in Traditional Turkish Houses' from Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, Vol 22, pp 475-498

Penn, Alan, R Conroy, N Dalton, L Dekker, C Mottram, and A Turner, (1995) Intelligent Architecture: User interface design to elicit knowledge models, in Applications and Innovations in Expert Systems III, Macintosh, A. & Cooper, C. (eds), SGES Pubs, Oxford, 1995, 335-348; ISBN 1 899621 03 2;

Penn, Alan, N Dalton, L Dekker, C Mottram and M Nigri (1995) 'Intelligent Architecture: desktop VR for complex strategic design in architecture and planning' from Proceedings of the NATO Workshop on Virtual Reality and Training, Portsmouth, 1995.

Penn Alan and B Hillier (1995) Structure spatiale et innovation dans les laboratoires de recherche scientifique: le potentiel social des bâtiments from in Evette, T. et Lautier, F. (eds) De l'atelier au territoire: le travail an quête d'espaces. L'Harmattan, Paris, 1994, Ch.24, p215-224.

Penn, Alan and B Hillier (1995) 'Analysis of Configuration: knowledge of context and precedent in architectural design' from IEE Computing and Control Division Colloquium on "Knowledge Based Approaches to Automation in Construction", June 1995, IEE Digest No: 1995/129, 7/1-9, IEE, London.

Penn, Alan, B Hillier and MD Major (1995) 'Housing redevelopment to improve the quality of the urban environment' from Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Housing and Quality of Life, KNHC, Seoul

Penn, Alan and L Vaughan (1995) 'Pedestrian movement and spatial design' from Passenger Terminal '95, UK and International Press, Dorking, 1995, 122-125.

1994

Grajewski T and B Hillier (1994) 'The door is being closed on open plan offices' from Premises & Facilities Management; January

Hanson, Julienne (1994), 'Reflections on the SEDA Recognition Process', SEDA Newsletter, The Competent Teacher, Issue 1, March 1994, pp 3-7

Hanson, Julienne (1994) 'Deconstructing architects' houses' from Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, Vol 21, pp 675-704

Hillier, Bill (1994) 'Space as a Material', Paper to the conference of the Association Internationale de Semiotique de l'Espace at Berkeley, 12-18 June

Hillier, Bill and A Penn (1994) 'Virtuous circles: building sciences and the science of building' from Design Studies, Spring 1994, Winner of Design Studies Award for best paper of 1994

Penn, Alan (1994) 'Space for innovation: effects of spatial configuration on social and knowledge generation' from Proceedings of the first Workshop for Cooperation between Japan and the United Kingdom on SOFT Science and Technology, 126-8 & 172-6, November 1994, STA, Osaka.

Penn, Alan (1994) 'Intelligent Urban and Building Planning' from Proceedings of Conference on Intelligent Computing for the Financial Sector, London, 1994.

Penn, et al (1994), 'Crime and Security in Hospitals: A study of Greenwich District Hospital, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, Wonford and Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield', NHSE Code: 215/05/A1, Space Syntax Laboratory report, 24 January 994

Penn, Alan and N Dalton (1994) The architecture of society: stochastic simulation of urban movement from Gilbert & Doran (eds) Simulating Societies, UCL Press, London, 1994, pp 85-126.

Penn, Alan, B Hillier, D Banister and J Xu (1994) 'Configurational modelling of urban movement networks', paper given to the IATBR Conference, Santiago de Chile, 1994.

Velastin, SA, JH Yin, MA Vicencio-Silva, AC Davies, R Allsop, and A Penn (1994) 'Automated Measurement of Crowd Density and Motion using Image Processing', paper given to 7th IEE International Conference on Road Traffic Monitoring and Control, London.

Velastin, SA, JH Yin, MA Vicencio-Silva, AC Davies, R Allsop, and A Penn (1994) 'Image processing techniques for on-line analysis of crowds in public transport areas', paper presented at the IFAC Symposium on Transportation Systems: theory and Application of Advanced Technology, Tianjin, PRC

1993

Hanson, Julienne and B Hillier (1993), 'City of London Space and Role, Urban Design Group Quarterly, Issue 48, October, pp. 8-13

Hanson, Julienne (1993), 'Teaching skills is not enough for architecture to flourish', AJ 29 September, p19

Hanson, Julienne (1993), 'Methodi technique per il controlo del progetto in Boterro', Fontana e Zanella, Ill progetto dell'ambiente urbano, Citta Studi, Milan, pp 100-101

Hillier, Bill (1993), 'Specifically Architectural Theory: A Partial Account of the Ascent from Building as Cultural Transmission to Architecture as Theoretical Concretion', Harvard Architectural Review, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., Volume 9, pp. 8-27

Hillier, Bill (1993) 'Architectural Possibility and Architectural Actuality', working paper

Hillier, Bill (1993) 'Theory Liberates : intelligent representations and theoretical descriptions in architecture and urban design', Inaugural lecture as Professor of Architectural and Urban Morphology delivered at University College London 13.6.90 and from Bartlett Review, 12 pp

Hillier, Bill and A Penn (1993) 'Virtuous Circles, Building Sciences and the Science of Buildings: using computers to integrate product and process in the built environment' from Informing Technologies for Construction, Civil Engineering and Transport, in Eds., Powell J. A., & Day, R., Brunel with SERC, London, 1993, pp. 283-300. republished in The International Journal of Construction Information Technology, 1:4, 69-92, Salford, 1993.

Hillier, Bill, A Penn, J Hanson, T Grajewski and J Xu. (1993) 'Natural Movement: or, configuration and attraction in urban pedestrian movement' from Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design, Pion, Volume 20, pp. 29-66

Penn, Alan (1993) Intelligent Analysis of Urban Space Patterns: graphical interfaces to precedent databases for urban design from Proceedings of the AUTOCARTO 11 Conference, Minneapolis

Penn, Alan (1993) 'Day surgery units: an evaluation of spatial planning' from Day Surgery Building Note, NHS Estates, Leeds

Velastin, SA, JH Yin, MA Vicencio-Silva, AC Davies, R Allsop, and A Penn (1993) Analysis of Crowd Movements and Densities in Built-up Environments using Image Processing from IEE Colloquium on Image Processing for Transport Applications, London, December

1992

Hanson, Julienne and with J Zu (1992), 'A High Quality and Secure Environment?' Building Design Services, London Borough of Camden and the Tenants' Management Co-operative of the Ainsworth and Alexandra Estates, Camden, pp 82

Hanson, Julienne (1992), 'Tradition and Experimentation in Housing and Neighbourhood Design, in Prospects on Housing Policy and Technology Development for the 21st Century', Korea National Housing Corporation, pp. 139-187

Hanson, Julienne (1992), 'Forming the Taste of a Nation : speculative housing and showhome decoration in Milton Keynes', AJ, 25th March 1992, p.19

Hanson, J. and B Hillier (1992), 'The Shape and Role of the City of London.' In London: A Vision for the City Symposium.

Hillier, Bill (1992) 'Organic architecture - not always what it seems' - Architecture of Israel No 13

Hillier, Bill (1992) 'From London to Milton Keynes and back: parts and wholes in big cities' - Paper to Urban Design Group Lecture Series 19th February.

Hillier, Bill, N Dalton and A Penn (1992) 'Look back to London: how a city works depends on the relation of its parts to the whole 'from the Architects Journal 15/4 pp 42-46

Hillier, Bill and A Penn (1992) 'Dense Civilisations: or the shape of cities in the 21st century' from Applied Energy, pp 41-66, 1992

Hillier, Bill and A Penn (1992) Is Dense Civilisation Possible?: or the shape of cities in the 21st century paper given to the Watt Committee Conference on Energy, pp 25 inc. diagrams, Applied Energy 43, 41-66, Elsevier; London.

Kolokotroni, M and A Penn (1992) Environment zoning of research laboratories: a case study approach from Journal of Architectural and Planning Research

Penn, Alan and B Hillier (1992) 'The Social Potential of Buildings', Corporate Space and Architecture International Symposium Proceedings, 30 June, Lille, Lyons, Nantes, Paris 1-3 July 1992, pp. 38-43

1991

Hillier, Bill (1991) 'Can Architecture Cause Social Malaise?', Paper given to the Medical Research Council on Housing and Health, 15 November 1991

Hillier, Bill (1991) 'A Brief Lesson in the Principles of Urban Layout Using Space Syntax', Space Syntax Laboratory document

Hillier, Bill and A Penn (1991) 'Visible colleges: structure and randomness in the place of discovery' from Science in Context. 4, 1 pp. 23-49, 1991; Also paper to conference in Jerusalem on 'The Place of Knowledge', May 1989

1990

Peponis J et al Sep. (1990) "Finding the building in wayfinding" Environment and Behaviour 25 (5) 555-590

1989

Hanson, Julienne (1989), 'London as it might have been: an analysis of the post-fire plans for the rebuilding of the City of London after the Great Fire of 1666', in a special double issue, Eksitics 334/335 edited by Peponis J, Jan/Feb. 1989, March/April 1989.

Hanson, Julienne (1989) 'Order and Structure in Urban Design: The plans for the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire of 1666' from Ekistics, Special Issue on Space Syntax January/February, March/April, Volume 56, Number 334/335, pp. 22 -42.

Hillier, Bill (1989) 'The architecture of the urban object' from Ekistics, January-April 1989. Special Issue on space syntax research. pp 5- 22

Hillier, Bill and J Hanson (1989) The Social Logic of Space, Cambridge University Press, 281 pp. Revised paperback edition of 1984 book

Hillier, Bill and P Zanella (1989) 'La morfologia urbana e le legge dell'oggetto' from ed P. Zanella: Morfologia dello Spazio Urbano, Franco Angeli, Milan, pp 29-64

Hillier, Bill, A Penn, J Hanson, T Grajewski and J Xu (1989) Natural movement; or, configuration and attraction in urban space use, Paper given to the Conference on the Management and Representation of Urban Change at Cambridge, September 1989

Peponis J, E Hadjinikolaou, C Livieratos and DA Fatouros (1989) 'The Spatial Core of Urban Culture' from Ekistics, Special Issue on Space Syntax January/February, March/April, Volume 56, Number 334/335, pp. 43-55.

1988

Hillier, Bill (1988) 'Against Enclosure', Rehumanising Humanising (Teymur, N., T.A. Markus and T. Woolley, eds.), Butterworths, pp. 63-88

Hillier, Bill (1988) 'La methode de la syntaxe spatiale' from eds Pierre Merlin, Ernesto Alfonso & Francoise Choay: Morphologie Urbaine et Parcellaire, Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, Paris, pp 129-137

Hillier, and A Penn (1988) Regenerating the inner cities with 'space syntax' (Hillier B & Penn A) from SERC Bulletin, Vol 3 No 12, Autumn 1988, p 27.

Penn, Alan (1988) 'Architecture of Innocence and Experience' from Bartlett Forum, 1(1).

1987

Hanson, Julienne and B. Hillier. (1987) 'The Architecture of Community: Some New Proposals on the Social Consequences of Architectural and Planning Decisions' from Architecture and Behaviour. Volume 3, Number 3, pp. 251-273.

Hillier, Bill (1987) 'La morphologie de l'espace urbaine: l'evolution de l'approche syntaxique' from Architecture & Behaviour Vol. 3,.3, pp 205-216

Hillier, Bill and J Hanson (1987) 'A second paradigm', Editorial Article in Special Issue of Architecture & Behaviour, Vol. 3 No 3, Editions de la Tour, Lausanne, pp 197-203

Hillier, Bill, R Burdett, J Peponis and A Penn. (1987) 'Creating Life: Or Does Architecture Determine Anything?' from Architecture and Behaviour. 1987, Volume 3, Number 3, pp. 233-250.

Hillier, Bill, J Hanson and H Graham (1987) 'Ideas are in things: an application of the space syntax method to discovering house genotypes' from in Environment & Planning B: Planning & Design, Vol. 14, pp 363-385

Hillier, Bill, J Hanson and J Peponis (1987) 'The syntactic analysis of settlements' (with Hanson J & Peponis J) - Architecture & Behaviour, Vol 3 No 3, pp 217-231

1986

Hillier Bill (1986) 'City of Alice's Dreams' from the Architects' Journal. London, 9th July 1986, 39-41.

1985

Hillier, Bill (1985) 'The nature of the artificial: the contingent and the necessary in spatial form in architecture' from Geoforum 16 (3), pp 163-78

Hillier, Bill (1985) 'Quite Unlike the Pleasures of Scratching: Theory and Meaning in Architectural Form', 9H, pp. 66-72

Peponis John (1985) 'The Spatial Culture of Factories' from Human Relations, Vol 38, Apr, pp 357-390

1984

Hillier, Bill and Julienne Hanson. (1984) The Social Logic of Space. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge

Hillier, Bill, J Hanson and J Peponis (1984) 'What do we mean by building function?', Designing for Building Utilisation (Powell J.A. , I. Cooper and S. Lera, eds), E. & F.N. Spon Ltd, pp. 61-72

1983

Hanson, Julienne (1983), 'Out of Touch With Front Doors', The Guardian, feature article in Guardian Woman, Wed. July 27th.

Hillier Bill, J Hanson, J Peponis, J Hudson and R Burdett (1983) 'Space syntax' from the Architectss Journal, Vol 178 (48), pp 67-75

1982

Hanson, Julienne (1982), 'The Architecture of Community', Ethical Record, Vol. 88 No 10 pp 4 - 7

Peponis John and J Hedin (1982) 'The Layout of Theories in the Natural History Museum' from 9H, Vol 3, pp 12-25

Peponis, John and B Hillier (1982) 'Spatial choices in the organisation of health centres', Space Syntax Laboratory report, 1 April 1982

1976

Hanson, Julienne (1976), 'Space and Time in Two Nineteenth Century Novels', AAQ Vol. 8 No 4 pp 32-38.

1974

Hillier Bill and A Leaman (1974) 'How is Design Possible?', Journal of Architectural and Planning Research, Volume 3, Number 1, January 1974, pp. 4-11

 

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