Eigenfunction analysis provides well-accepted measures of the structure of spatial systems. They have been shown by Wildgen to display appealing properties for the purpose of designing electoral districts consistent with the mandates of contiguity, compactness, community of interest, and equal...

Community participation exercises in the development plan process in the United Kingdom have generally been undertaken by local authorities through a consultation process where planners draw up policies and strategies and then 'advertise' them to the public to seek legitimation. More innovative...

Rectangulations include packings of rectangles in two dimensions and packings of cuboids (3-rectangles) in three dimensions. Spatial layouts of this type are used in architectural and engineering design. In this paper we examine the spatial relations between the lines, planes, and volume...

An aggregate approach (traffic analysis zones, TAZs) has been used to conduct conventional transportation-planning analysis. The impact of a TAZ (sizes and boundaries) on traffic demand estimates and evaluation of transportation systems, however, has not been addressed adequately in the...

In this paper an activity-based travel-demand model called AMOS is described. The model system is capable of simulating changes in individual activity and travel behavior that may be brought about by a change in the transportation system. These simulations may then be used to predict the impacts...

Planning and public policy endeavours are argumentative. We explore issues in analyzing and learning about planning and policy argumentation by considering the use and misuse of Toulmin's method of argument representation. We first outline Toulmin's heuristic and its contributions, then discuss...

Liveable, endurable, and governable cities are sustained by a delicate balance of laws and policies that protect the interests of individuals, households, and firms at the same time as meeting the collective consumption needs of existing and future citizens. A general equilibrium model is...

Comprehensive rationality and disjointed incrementalism are among the decisionmaking models discussed in planning theory. But the practical relevance of this discussion has been questioned and concrete evidence of links between theory and practice is rare. The case of the planning of Highway 6...

Recent developments in textual analysis in the social sciences can be used to analyse the phenomenon called the 'argumentative' or 'communicative' turn by, for example, Patsy Healey. In this paper, modern argumentation theory, in particular the pragma-dialectical theory of Frans van Eemeren and...