  Many approaches have dealt with the hypothesis that the environment contain
information, mostly focusing on how humans decode information from the
environment in visual perception, navigation, and spatial decision-making. A
question yet to be fully explored is how the built environment could encode
forms of information in its own physical structures. This paper explores a new
measure of spatial information, and applies it to twenty cities from different
spatial cultures and regions of the world. Findings suggest that this
methodology is able to identify similarities between cities, generating a
classification scheme that opens up new questions about what we call "cultural
hypothesis": the idea that spatial configurations find consistent differences
between cultures and regions.
