isovist
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isovist (plural isovists)
- (architecture) A measurement representing the volume of space visible from a given point of known location.
- 2009 July 12, Jonah Lehrer, “Where Am I?”, in New York Times[1]:
- The best architects intuitively understand this psychological preference, as they construct spaces that naturally lead us from one expansive isovist to the next.