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	Townscape Analysis	Space Syntax Analysis
Field	Urban Studies	Architecture
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	1961	1984
Originator	Gordon Cullen (serial vision); M. R. G. Conzen (town-plan analysis)	Bill Hillier, Julienne Hanson
Type	Pipeline for the visual and morphological appraisal of town form and townscape	graph-based spatial assessment method
Seminal source	Cullen, G. (1961). The Concise Townscape. Architectural Press. ISBN: 9780750620185	Hillier, B. (1984). The Social Logic of Space. Cambridge University Press.
Aliases	Serial Vision Analysis, Townscape Appraisal, Conzenian Plan Analysis, Urban Morphological Townscape Analysis	spatial configuration analysis, graph-based space analysis
Related	4	3
Summary	Townscape analysis is the appraisal of the visual and physical character of towns, combining two traditions: Gordon Cullen's 'serial vision' approach, which reads the town as a sequence of unfolding views experienced by a moving observer, and the Conzenian school of urban morphology, which dissects the town through its plan, building fabric, and land use. Cullen's 1961 The Concise Townscape argued that the art of the environment lies in the relationships and emerging views between buildings and spaces, not in the objects alone. Together the two strands give townscape analysis both an experiential, qualitative side and a systematic, morphological one.	Space Syntax Analysis is a quantitative method for assessing spatial configuration in buildings and urban environments through graph-based representations. Developed by Bill Hillier and Julienne Hanson in the 1980s, it quantifies how spatial layout affects human movement, visibility, and social interaction.