Studies that examine spatial characteristics of urban unemployment are often based on some simplistic measures of employment accessibility. In this paper a refined methodological framework for measuring accessibility is presented, which enables the researcher (1) to improve the measurement by...

Post-Fordist urban growth is characterised by ever-increasing dispersal and polycentricity. The transformation of urban spatial structure has profound implications for sustainable development. There is now a substantial literature both on confirming the existence of polycentricity through...

In this paper, part 2 of a three-part series, we present the formal specification and calibration results of the land-use change component of the second-generation California urban futures model. The land-use change component consists of a series of nonordinal multinomial logit models of...

Under a typical riparian landscape structure where a vegetated buffer is sandwiched between a greenway trail and the river bank or lake shore, a trail user's perceptions about riparian scenic quality are influenced by, among other factors, buffer-induced setback effects. As a trail is set back...

Existing parameters that measure the connectivity of elements in landscape networks are dependent upon the size of the network, defined as the number of locations in it. These parameters are unsuitable for comparing the connectivity in networks that have different numbers of locations. The...

Architectural mass is widely discussed and regulated but there have been few experimental studies on just which design features influence impressions of architectural mass. I investigated the effect of four design features (visual area, partitioning, fenestration, and facade articulation) on...

The central question of this study is whether and how the broader paradigmatic changes in social discourse, as exemplified by the postmodernism debate, are reflected in the practical world of local land-use regulations, specifically the design-review processes. We identify the paradigmatic...

In this study Ming-style chairs are used as examples to investigate the critical factors constituting the style of products. In an experiment, subjects were asked to compare varied pairs of Ming-style chairs. These comparisons were then analyzed by using the methods of multidimensional scaling...

Shape grammars, utilizing function labels, are shown to be applicable to product design. A grammar that describes a language of coffeemakers is presented and shown to generate a large class of coffeemakers currently on the market, as well as new designs that could be introduced to consumers.