A general description is presented of how the MEPLAN model has been implemented and used within a study area comprising London and the South East of England. The model operates at a strategic level and represents both the land-use system and the transport system, together with the ways in which...

'Space syntax' analysis is used by architecture students to investigate the relation between composition and configuration in the houses of four influential modem architects whose work betrays a preoccupation with the formal decomposition of the cube. Analysis reveals that the houses permutate...

Construction in all advanced industrial societies is fragmented. On a single project, a variety of design technologies reside within different AEC (architecture, engineering, and construction) firms which are frequently dispersed geographically (and increasingly internationally). Coordination...

This paper introduces four common fallacies that are often developed explicitly or implied when approaches toward computer-aided architectural design are criticized from a broader 'philosophical' perspective. It contains suggestions of what the author considers more fruitful directions for...

The paper deals with the attempt to build a legal planner expert system, NORM, for the building-application inspection branch of a local city planning agency, within an ill-organized administrative structure. The authors report the first stage of the research, mainly concerned with knowledge...

Increasing mobility is one of the constituent features of modernity. Today Europe is facing a new thrust of acceleration: the planned European high-speed rail network will open up new dimensions of travel speed and so of the relation of space and time. The topic of this paper is the...

A MEPLAN model for multimodal intercity freight and passenger transport planning was implemented in the Yangtze Economic Zone Transport Study, the largest transport study to date in China. Information was collected on the patterns of use in practice of each transport mode for various categories...

In this paper the general characteristics are defined of the recent land-use—transport interaction models developed ultimately from the work of the Centre for Land Use and Built Form Studies and the Martin Centre. In honour of the Centre's anniversary, we may perhaps refer to the general form...