Over twenty years of effort have gone into the development of a general framework for modelling land-use and transport interaction. This effort has been directed at integrating economic theory with operational planning methods in order to establish models that are advanced in theory, practical...

Boolean algebras constructed for shapes and individuals show how different shapes and individuals really are.

This paper is a further development of presentations made to the fourth congress of the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) in 1990, and to the joint congress of AESOP and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning in 1991. The author advances a proposal to facilitate...

In this paper is an outline of four distinct traditions or 'modes' of environmental planning. These are planning as rule-making, as place-making, as targeted action, and as principled action. The four modes are discussed in relationship; each mode challenges and reinforces the others in powerful...

Central to the space syntax method (a technique for morphological analysis of urban areas) is the concept of integration. Unfortunately, the integration values are not independent of the size of urban areas. Consequently it is difficult to compare areas of different size, implying a need for...

The need to capture design knowledge and transfer it to the development of design environments is described. Two sets of design studies are presented in which data concerning the analogue circuit design process are captured for use in the development of a semiautomated design environment. Data...

Although there is a visible increase in the number of publications in the area of design thinking and signs that it is becoming a serious area of research, there is a lack of theoretical approaches that directly address its domain-specific characteristics. This study is an attempt to develop...

In existing factor-based design methods 'multivalency', 'otherness', and conflict of social value systems, from which design factors derive, have largely been ignored. In the implicit approach of 'cohesion' it is assumed and dictated that design processes eventually lead to covergence and...