The term 'habitable' generally refers to how suitable an environment is for human occupation and use. However, there is no specific list of criteria that an environment must satisfy to be considered habitable. Recent theories of the environment - behavior relationship have provided numerous...

Through analysis of two sets of regional plans prepared under cooperative and coercive intergovernmental mandates in Florida and New Zealand, this study examines variation in mandate design features and their influence on plan quality. New Zealand's cooperative mandate has greater flexibility...

Regulations for the built environment are as old as civilization, but we still lack a theory about how to design them. Regulations are artifacts, composed of rules that are self-reflexive, leading to complex combinations. A variety of fields (the law, general systems theory, expert systems,...

Natural resources management typically requires prediction of environmetal changes over large areas or long time periods. In the case of forest management, for example, decisions can affect timber production, water catchment properties, recreational values, aesthetic values, energy usage, or...

Within a set-grammatical frame, multiple structures are determined for a line by using an object - feature approach. The Galois connection and its related lattice is employed. Most 'world-pictures' of the line are not Boolean.

In this paper the regionwide, spatial consequences of locally enacted growth controls are examined on the basis of a case study of the San Francisco Bay Region. A quasi-experimental methodology is employed. An ex post projection of population distribution among the region's cities in 1990 is...

The strategic location of servers by a firm in a competitive environment is basic in the determination or division of market shares. Let us suppose that a firm wants to locate <i>p</i> servers so as to maximize market capture in a region where competitors are already located but where there is...

In this paper human experience and perception of phenomena and relations in space are studied. This focus is in contrast to previous work where space and spatial relations were examined as objective phenomena of the world. This study leads in turn to a goal: to identify models of space that can...

Architectural typologies are a way in which the designer's awareness of fundamentally different design options and his or her understanding of their appropriateness to various desires and requirements can be supported. The shortcoming of conventional typologies is that types are not described...