Hanson, J;
Hillier, B;
(1987)
The architecture of community: some new proposals on the social consequences of architectural and planning decisions.
Architecture et Comportement/Architecture and Behaviour
, 3
(3)
pp. 251-273.
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Summary: "Territorial" theories argue that spatial design can only play an important role in society by virtue of there being a "correspondence" between spatial zones and social identities. In this paper it is argued that "structured non-correspondence" can also play a positive social role, with quite different consequences for spatial design. To the extent that a system works on non-correspondences it functions more probabilistically. It relies on numbers and frequencies of events which take place to reproduce a statistically stable global system, rather than on the formal clarity of its structure. This gives non-correspondence systems a robustness which highly structured systems do not possess. They can thus tolerate much more local disorder and yet be reproducible.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The architecture of community: some new proposals on the social consequences of architectural and planning decisions |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Additional information: | Imported via OAI, 22:14:04 9th Apr 2008 |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/5265 |
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