Yannis Paraskevopoulos, Maria Pigaki School of Rural and Surveying Engineering, National Technical University of Athens parask.yannis@gmail.com, pigaki@survey.ntua.gr Combinatorial syntactic analysis of suburban centralities: Application of methodology framework for identification, typological analysis and evaluation of activity centres in Alimos, Attica, Greece Abstract The Athens Urban Region has been continuously sprawled and expanded, resulting in distant and car-dependent suburbs. The city of Alimos is an inner suburb of Athens that is heavily car- dependent and also has the particularity of a significantly diverse character. The southwest neighbourhood of Alimos has the functional and morphological characteristics of an upper middle-class suburb while its northeast part has these of a typical Athens commuter suburb, and the zone between them, simulates a high-class bedroom suburb. A significant amount of research supports that cities can be approached as self-organising systems that evolve from collections of buildings to vibrant cities, with busy and quiet zones through the interaction of network structure and activities. Thus, the methodology framework presented in this paper, combines the land-use distribution and space syntax analysis for analysing and evaluating activity centres. More specifically, a two-stage methodological framework is being applied which combines space syntax and land-use pattern analyses in a Geographical Information System (GIS) framework in order to identify centralities, analyse their typology and evaluate their dynamic and potential. A key finding of this study is that, even in a residential suburb like Alimos, centrality is mainly generated by the coexistence of different functions, as important city-centres are comprised by diverse activities. Another finding is that, older and already fully established centres in Alimos have been developed without regard for the syntactic centrality while their evolution and newer centres are being developed in syntactically central areas. Keywords: suburban activity centres, Space Syntax, centrality, land-use distribution, Athens suburban centralities