(2004-09-09) Hiller Space Syntax City Design

Article about Bill Hillier and Space Syntax. Hillier says his work is an attempt to put Jane Jacobs' ideas into scientific form. Some basic ideas of this organic approach to Urban Design, such as Self Organization and Emergence, are now familiar from the area of science dubbed Complexity Theory. This month, the Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment will bring together architects and designers influenced by complexity, such as CharlesJencks, alongside theorists like Hillier and scientists working on complexity in biology and physics. This is not bandwagon-boarding; Hillier has spent more than 20 years looking for emergent laws in the interactions between space, objects and human movement.