ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on spatial analysis, which is a study of the spatial relationships of a landscape. It deals with the relative location and significance of different patterns, elements and features in the landscape, and how one experience the landscape through the senses and through movement and physical engagement. Spatial analysis concerns the structure of the landscape, how the landscape is arranged, how landscape is comprehended, and how people orient them within it. Spatial analysis is therefore closely related to visual analysis. In a spatial analysis, the visual appearance of the landscape as seen from a particular point can be described as one would describe a building, with an account of its visible characteristics – the shape, colour and texture of its roof, facade, windows, doors, etc. However, spatial analysis is not limited to two-dimensional appearance like a picture. Analysis of visibility is a special form of spatial analysis dealing with visual catchments and zones of visual influence.
