With rapid population growth, urban designers face tremendous challenges to
accommodate the increasing size of the population in urban areas while simultaneously …

Space Syntax is a theory and method that has been developing for the last 40 years.
Originally conceived as a theory of “society and space,” it has expanded to other areas. An …

Social media check-in data, one type of crowdsourcing open data about individual activity-
related choices, provides a new perspective to sense people's spatial and temporal …

We introduce two measures of connectivity that are applicable to standard GIS-based
representations of street networks. The reach of a point measures the total street length …

To contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of human wayfinding behaviors in
complex buildings, we propose a framework that incorporates the impact of critical factors …

The justified plan graph (JPG) was the first practical analytical method developed as part of
the theory of Space Syntax, which purported to provide a graphical, mathematical and …

Wayfinding is an issue in complex facilities—including hospitals, airports, and office
buildings—and wayfinding difficulties are associated with negative psychological and …

Spatial cognition has become an increasingly important area of study since it represents a
major type of human knowledge with considerable practical significance. The general …

In this chapter, I describe space syntax, a recent configurational approach to urban
morphological studies that shows some conceptual similarities to the network analysis of …

Environmental psychology developed in the midst of a wave of scientific and social
movements of the past century rooted in large measure among the ecological sciences. And …