A listed site also ranked among the Most Beautiful Villages in France, the medieval hilltop village of Gassin on the Saint-Tropez peninsula is also a model of its kind. It has indeed become a benchmark example in geographic information and architecture in the theories of spatial organization following Bill Hillier's work on spatial syntax. Detailed in The Social Logic of Space and published by the University of Cambridge in 1984, his work has since inspired several researchers and theorists of different nationalities who have taken an interest in the small locality of the Var department.