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In the face of globalisation, maintaining cultural diversity is important for the long term resilience of cultural heritage (UNESCO, 2003). An intrinsic part of the latter is industrial heritage, which, together with Hillier’s (2016) notion of creativity as the city’s fourth sustainability, can contribute to building inclusive societies and strengthening the economy.This paper explores those spatial and social cycles of an industry's (re)use and their integration in urban development, through the study of configurational, morphological and perceptual characteristics. For this reason, two industrial heritage schemes are investigated; the Old Truman Brewery in London, UK and Technopolis in Athens, Greece. The study examines those factors present in the urban environment and the syntactic form of each scheme that affect the density of interactions and people’s perceptions of heritage constitution. Along with Space Syntax, on site observations and morphological analysis, mental mapping is also implemented as a tool to bring forth those attributes which constitute living expressions of each site’s legacy. The findings demonstrate that the studied cases variation is linked with their spatial configuration and management, but more importantly with their local to global spatial relations in facilitating "contacts of the right kind" (Hillier, 2016) through diffused social networks. |