It has been shown that, with space syntax, spatial configuration can be described as a set of lines covering all the areas of a layout and all the ways of moving around the one-dimensional and two-dimensional boundaries that it comprises. In this paper we propose alternative formal definitions...

In this paper we explore the theory and logic behind the development of the second generation of the California urban futures model, a site-specific urban growth and simulation model. The second-generation model remedies three of the major shortcomings of the first generation. It substitutes a...

The systems of building control vary widely between European countries. Some countries have an elaborate and detailed set of requirements and procedures with a dominant (control) role for government bodies. In other European countries private parties are more dominant regarding the quality...

In this paper we present a representation of shapes and shape semantics, and processes for the emergence of shape semantics. Constraints on the behaviours of shapes are used to define shape semantics, in particular, visual symmetry and visual rhythm. A process model of emergence of shape...

Many efforts have been made to develop segregation indices that incorporate spatial interaction based on the contiguity concept. Contiguity refers to how similar the concentration of the subject of interest in one areal unit is to that in adjacent areal units. However, highly segregated...

In this paper, current practice in the environmentalappraisal of development plans in England and Wales is examined. The results of a detailed study of fourteen local authorities are presented. A comparative analysis of local authority practice demonstrates that there are considerable variations...

There has been renewed interest in the impact of planning controls on housing land supply and the housing market, and particularly in their effects on supply elasticity and the type of land and housing supplied. But incorporation of planning in econometric models of housing is hampered by the...

Transportation research has usually seen road networks as inert systems to be navigated and eventually filled up by traffic. A new type of 'configurational' road network modelling, coupled to detailed studies of vehicular and pedestrian flows, has shown that road networks have a much more...

In this paper we propose and illustrate analytic techniques for the analysis of plans. Two issues are addressed: first, the characterization of individual surfaces according to the local and global patterns of visual connectivity between surfaces; second, the pattern of the smallest set of...