This paper is concerned with the construction of polygonal shapes using an approach based on vector geometry. Starting with the concept of an atomic polygon cell, configurations of planar animals are constructed. A vector approach for the representation of polygons in which they are represented...

In this paper, I review the development of three-dimensional geographic information systems (GISs) and demonstrate how we can move beyond this to extend GIS to virtual reality. Existing elements of GIS which can imply three-dimensional representation, namely two-dimensional representation,...

This paper presents a strategy for integrating a fully three-dimensional environmental simulation system with an industry-standard computer-aided design system and a traditional two-dimensional geographic information system and databases. The integrated system provides a full package for...

The aim of this research is to set up a theory about style in architectural design from a cognitive point of view. It has been observed that the constant application of certain factors in a design process constitutes the formation of a style. Those factors include design constraints, search...

In city planning contexts, hypermedia systems have been demonstrated to be engaging tools that make complex information understandable to those who are not technically sophis ticated. This is accomplished through the use of multimedia interfaces that use images, motion, and sound as...

In the research design, iteration between two multiattribute techniques is used to compare their ability to elicit preferences. Each subject used one technique, then a second, and iterated between the two. Previous judgments from each technique were presented as two anchors for each succeeding...

Four alternative, hypothetical redesigns of a politically significant landscape are presented to a selected sample of sixteen planning and design professionals (eight male, eight female), considered representative of the sorts of 'opinion leaders' likely to respond (in support or indignation) to...

Long-term morphological change in UK building stocks suggests that industrialisation and division of labour initially stimulated diversity among process-specific buildings. Latterly, process-specific buildings may have lost some prominence to non-process-specific ones. Possible causes for this...

The self-organization of cities is studied in terms of synergetics paradigms of pattern formation and pattern recognition. The authors propose a mathematical model that describes the change of populations by migration, changes of profession, and so on, first by a linear model whose deficiencies...