This reminds me of the "Space Syntax" school of urban planning and architecture (which basically adopts a computational/graph-theoretic/topological approach by

This reminds me of the "Space Syntax" school of urban planning and architecture (which basically adopts a computational/graph-theoretic/topological approach by computing the simplicity of paths between various points and all other points). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_syntax https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_syntax