Information systems for urban analysis and design development

A research project is described to develop a prototype information system to represent and manipulate models of urban settlements. The project emphasizes identification and representation of information in a way that is most useful to urban designers for analytical and design-development purposes. The project differs from other geographic information systems in its central focus: access to information and operators which support <I>design </I>tasks and not primarily <I>planning </I>tasks and issues.