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Bill Hillier is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields of study, primarily Medicine, Psychology, and Health Professions, with notable contributions in subfields such as General Health Professions, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Infectious Diseases, and Epidemiology.

Their work addresses a range of topics, including:

  • LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Psychiatric Care and Mental Health Services
  • Sexual Differentiation and Disorders
  • Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
  • Reproductive Health and Technologies

Hillier has published extensively in several academic venues. The most frequent venues include:

  • UCL Press eBooks
  • Medicine Science and the Law
  • BJPsych Bulletin
  • BJPsych Open
  • BJPsych International

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Hillier include:

  • The architecture of the urban object, 2025, UCL Press eBooks
  • What do we mean by building function?, 2025, UCL Press eBooks
  • The man-environment paradigm and its paradoxes, 2025, UCL Press eBooks
  • Chemsex-related crime and vulnerability: A public health and criminal justice priority, 2021, Medicine Science and the Law
  • Developing a coordinated response to chemsex across health, justice and social care settings: expert consensus statement, 2024, BJPsych Bulletin

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Elliott Carthy
  • Derek K. Tracy
  • Mark Pakianathan
  • Andrew Forrester
  • Ford Hickson

Best Publications

  • The Social Logic of Space

    Bill Hillier;Julienne Hanson

  • Space is the Machine: A Configurational Theory of Architecture

    Bill Hillier

  • Space is the machine

    B Hillier

  • Creating Life: Or, Does Architecture Determine Anything?

    B Hillier;R Burdett;J Peponis;A Penn

  • Network and psychological effects in urban movement

    Bill Hillier;Shinichi Iida

  • Configurational Modelling of Urban Movement Networks

    A Penn;B Hillier;D Banister;J Xu

  • Centrality as a process: Accounting for attraction inequalities in deformed grids

    Bill Hillier

  • The city as one thing

    B Hillier;L Vaughan

  • Cities as movement economies

    Bill Hillier

  • An algorithmic definition of the axial map

    Alasdair Turner;Alan Penn;Bill Hillier

  • Network effects and psychological effects: a theory of urban movement

    B Hillier;S Iida

  • Spatial sustainability in cities: organic patterns and sustainable forms

    B. Hillier

  • The architecture of the urban object

    B Hillier

  • Can streets be made safe

    Bill Hillier

  • A theory of the city as object:or, how spatial laws mediate the social construction of urban space

    Bill Hillier

  • Metric and topo-geometric properties of urban street networks: some convergences, divergences and new results

    Bill Hillier;Alasdair Turner;Tao Yang;Hoon-Tae Park

  • The architecture of community: some new proposals on the social consequences of architectural and planning decisions

    J Hanson;B Hillier

  • Spatial distribution of urban pollution: civilizing urban traffic

    Ben Croxford;Alan Penn;Bill Hillier

  • The social logic of space: The logic of space

    Bill Hillier;Julienne Hanson

  • The social logic of space: Buildings and their genotypes

    Bill Hillier;Julienne Hanson

Frequent Co-Authors

David Banister
David Banister University of Oxford

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