The use of the SETIA project monitoring system that has been developed by the Federal Government of Malaysia is analysed with a view to identifying some general lessons for planners and policymakers involved in the development of decision support systems in both more developed and less developed...

This paper concludes a series of three, in which the formalization of 'soft' architectural design knowledge is studied in the context of making it accessible to knowledge-based design systems for support of early sketch design. A wide range of design ideas with the common theme of schematic...

In this paper the author traces the origins of the Martin Centre work in urban and regional studies back to the geometrical explorations of grids and buildings by Sir Leslie Martin and lionel March. That work encouraged the author and his colleagues to icok for a deeper understanding in order to...

Geoinformatic systems are sociotechnical systems for sensing, modeling, representing, visualizing, monitoring, processing, and communicating geoinformation in support of urban and regional planning and design and similar activities. Geoinformatics is the technological and scientific discipline...

The most pressing problems of rapid urbanisation in Kuala Lumpur include the need for land, housing, and provision of services. The link with day-to-day planning problems, how ever, remains a critical problem. The quality of the planning and decisionmaking process can be substantially improved...

Most of the research and published literature deals almost entirely with the effects of planned intervention. This is remarkable because since the late 1970s emphasis has shifted from plan to planning process. A planning process cannot be assessed in terms of the traditional measures of...

It can be inconvenient to use published land-price data with urban lattice data in analyses of urban activities, because such land-price data are limited to assigned plots in an urban area. This paper is an attempt to provide a model for interpolating the limited data. The proposed model is...