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or performances we become true subjects in
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of people in the design of their buildings, and
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action, a language that is not remote from but
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The questions this paper intends to answer
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and tourist places that attract people and create
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area through the movement between attractors
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tend to gather in places connected with services
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that depends of the cultural manifestations or
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movement relate with the spectators static
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properties of the space and these properties
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who are the ones who want to show their
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different points in the Thames Path in order to
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movement is possible to argue that there are two
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visual connections and morphological properties
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Keywords:
Visibility Graph Analysis, Isovists, Space Syntax