It is intended that this research will set up operational definitions of style and will study the fundamental phenomenon of style. Four experiments were conducted. In experiment 1, college students were asked to sort out pictures of buildings having the same style to test operational definition....

Computer support of architectural sketch design persistently remains a topic of research, rather than a reality of practice. The inherent complexity of creative design may be one reason; the alienation of designers by technology another. The author suggests that to avoid alienation we should...

Since mathematical models came to be applied to problems of architectural and urban form, new concepts based on predicting large-scale structure from local rules have emerged through insights originating in computation and biology. The clearest of these are computer models based on cellular...

A wide range of professional activities within the built environment share the common goal of urban improvement, yet they differ quite significantly in working detail. The author presents a theoretical description of the field of urban improvement as an aid to examining the variety of such work....

The geography of crime risk is a major concern of the public and of policymakers, but it is notoriously difficult to 'map' convincingly in Britain. Along with some unresolved issues of interpretation, there is a major problem of inadequate information. The official crime statistics are shown...

The calibration of a land-use and transport model of the Naples metropolitan area in Italy is described. The model is based on the MEPLAN general spatial interaction modelling framework that has arisen from initial efforts at The Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies, University of...

A number of speculations are offered about the classification of building types and built forms, in the context of a project to build a database of the nondomestic building stock of England and Wales. This database will be used by the Department of the Environment to help assess national policy...

Topologies obtained via closure operations structure shapes according to computations in a shape grammar, so that emergence is compatible with continuity.

In the second of two papers in which the author looks at how GIS can support analytical activities in urban planning, the potential contribution of the technology in <I>predictive </I>and <I>prescriptive </I>analysis is discussed. These activities are defined in terms of their substantive content, and the...</i></i>