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The Generic City and its Origins
Author(s) -
Hillier Bill
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1815
Subject(s) - space syntax , syntax , space (punctuation) , sociology , regional science , computer science , linguistics , artificial intelligence , philosophy
Bill Hillier , who is now Professor of Architectural and Urban Morphology at the University of London and Director of the Space Syntax Laboratory at University College London (UCL), is well known for establishing the space syntax approach in the 1970s. Here he explores the origins of the generic city, revealing how the economic and social factors that shape cities manifest themselves in a common pattern of a network of streets, which are further analysed by mapping through movement with the aid of ‘space syntax’.