Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The conception of this volume -- 2 Quantifying spatial concepts -- 3 Methodological themes and trends -- 3.1 Topological vs. metric properties of space -- 3.2 Three-dimensional analysis -- 4 Problems and limitations -- 5 Outline of the volume -- Bibliographical references -- Spatial analysis and cultural information: the need for theory as well as method in space syntax analysis -- 1 What space syntax is -- 2 How space syntax works -- 3 Numbers and colours -- 4 Space types -- 5 Visual integration -- 6 Some theoretical implications -- 7 A spatial law -- 8 How does this spatial law relate to urban space? -- 9 How then do urban patterns arise? -- 10 The geometry of cities -- 11 Cities as configurations -- 12 A theoretical reflection -- 13 A meta-theoretical reflection -- Bibliographical references -- From building to architecture: The rise of configurational thinking in Bronze Age Crete -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Vernacular architecture -- 3 Building vs. architecture -- 4 Invention, innovation, and tradition -- 5 Neopalatial architectural genotype -- 6 The rise of configurational thinking? -- 7 Postscript -- Bibliographical references -- Visibility analysis in 3D built spaces: a new dimension to the understanding of social space -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The visibility of built forms -- 2.1 Environment-behaviour theory and the Nonverbal Communication approach -- 2.2 Computational approaches to visibility analysis in 3D spaces:The visibility of Theran murals in the townscape of Late Bronze Age Akrotiri -- 3 The visibility of space between walls -- 3.1 Space syntax methods: isovist and visibility graph analysis -- 3.2 Visibility and co-presence during the liturgy in San Vitale, Ravenna -- 4 Conclusions and discussion -- Bibliographical references.

Connecting landscapes with built environments: visibility analysis, scale and the senses -- 1 Formal visibility analysis in archaeology -- 2 Critiques of spatial technological approaches -- 3 The map as a culturally-specific 'way of seeing' -- 4 Visualism and archaeology of the senses -- 5 Scale and the senses -- 6 Conclusions -- Bibliographical references -- Formal three-dimensional computational analyses of archaeological spaces -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Illumination of computer graphic simulations -- 3 Previous work -- 4 Lighting study one: the Minoan cemetery at Phourni - Burial Building 19 -- 5 Results -- 6 Lighting study two: Kommos, a Minoan harbour - the North House -- 7 Lighting study three: the 'Ceramics Workshop' at Zominthos -- 8 Discussion -- 9 Visibility in computer graphic simulations -- 10 Texture viewsheds -- 11 Visibility study: Kommos, a Minoan Harbour - the North House -- 12 Results -- 13 Conclusions -- Bibliographical references -- Investigating monumental social space in Late Bronze Age Cyprus: an integrative approach -- 1 Introduction -- 2 An integrative approach -- 3 A tale of two buildings -- 4 Building X at Kalavasos-Ayios Dhimitrios -- 5 Building II at Alassa-Paliotaverna -- 6 Discussion -- Bibliographical references -- Three tales of two cities? A comparative analysis of topological, visual and metric properties of archaeological space in Malia and Pylos -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Methodology -- 2.1 Topological properties -- 2.2 Visual properties -- 2.3 Metric properties -- 3 First case study: Malia -- 3.1 Analysis -- 3.1.1 Topological properties -- 3.1.2 Visual properties -- 3.1.3 Metric properties -- 3.2 Interpretation -- 3.2.1 Archaeological interpretation -- 3.2.2 Comparison of analytical results -- 4 Second case study: Pylos -- 4.1 Analysis -- 4.1.1 Topological properties -- 4.1.2 Visual properties -- 4.1.3 Metric properties.

4.2 Interpretation -- 4.2.1 Archaeological interpretation -- 4.2.2 Comparison of analytical results -- 5 Future perspectives -- Bibliographical references -- Spatial analysis of past built environments: Houses and society in the Aegean from the Early Iron Age till the impact of Rome -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Iron Age beginnings -- 3 The Archaic era -- 4 The Classical era -- 5 Hellenistic and Early Roman eras -- Bibliographical references -- Indicating street vitality in excavated towns. Spatial configurative analyses applied to Pompeii -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Definition of urban space -- 3 The space syntax method applied to excavated towns -- 4 The macro-scale tools -- 5 The micro-scale tools -- 6 Findings -- Bibliographical references -- The spatial signature of an Insula neighbourhood of Roman Ostia -- 1 The spatial organisation of Insula IV ii -- 2 Insula IVii: location and description -- 3 A three-way Space Syntax approach to Insula IV ii -- 4 Insula IV ii - a reading from access maps and spatial values -- 5 The Insula's axial line structure (axial analysis) -- 6 The Insula's axial and visual structure -- 7 Concluding remarks -- Bibliographical references -- List of contributors -- About the editors.