The author examines the contents of three recent British development plans to identify the systems of meaning (discourses) embodied within them. The objective is to illustrate the communicative work that plan texts perform in specific situations, and to identify how the planning work of a...

During the last two decades there have been vast increases in interest regarding design review, contextual design, and the validation of environmental simulation protocols. However, there appear to be few studies that specifically validate simulation protocols for the purpose of contextual...

In this paper the importance of a number of variables and assumptions in relation to subsidy and accumulation in the owner-occupied housing market is examined. First, a theoretical framework is established within which individual transitions relating to mobility and trading behaviour are...

The current globalization calls for a globalizing pedagogy of planning education. By 'globalization' is meant a process whereby certain megatrends are made universal to the human condition, although they are differently experienced by diverse cultures and activities and at various territorial...

The paper is focused on factors that drive the evolution of models, assumptions, methods, processes, and proposals as expressed in planning documents. It is concentrated on societal factors such as political and economic trends, as well as on local considerations such as the evolution of the...

Existing theories relating patterns of pedestrian and vehicular movement to urban form characterise the problem in terms of flows to and from 'attractor' land uses. This paper contains evidence in support of a new 'configurational' paradigm in which a primary property of the form of the urban...

The author develops a method to study how an individual style in architectural design is generated. He explores and explains the possible mechanisms that could influence the formation of a style through a laboratory experiment with an experienced practising architect. Results show that, for this...