In complex, shared-power settings, planners are unlikely to have much direct impact on action or underlying 'bedrock' social structures. What they can influence is the ideas, rules, modes, media, and methods that link action and structure in shared-power settings. In turn, these links will have...

The problems associated with the reassignment of students to schools, whether the result of closures, expansions, grade reconfigurations, or district desegregation, are some of the most difficult problems that school administrators must face. These problems are compounded with the political...

Information technology has had a substantial impact on methods of geographical study. Although this varies between different application fields, effective use of the new technology requires careful consideration of the underlying concepts of geographic data representation. Here, an improved data...

Faculty members in planning schools operate with the inherent assumption that the education they are providing is essential to the adequate preparation of future planning professionals. Yet, public-sector positions continue to require a 'degree in planning or related field'. Many advertisements...

Taking as their starting point the falling utility of government data sources for academic work, the authors seek to discuss possible alternatives. A brief overview of the problems of public data access is presented, and the current situation is outlined with examples, before a more detailed...

The geographic information revolution is rapidly increasing the availability of data that are referenced both by space and by time coordinates. This creates new opportunities for analysis, but also causes enormous problems as analytical tools able to depict, detect, or measure patterns in space...

This paper is an introduction to novel ways of rendering spatial - temporal systems to gain insight into and a holistic view of the more complex aspects of their distributions. Colour images can depict multivariate distributions for more than 100 000 spatial units from a census. The changes...

The meaning of the corporate office tower is explored within the framework of the production of symbolic capital. The method involves an interpretation of leasing advertisements -- the field of discourse which envelops the decision to lease. The advertising is argued to be market sensitive and...

This paper is an exploration of how different computer techniques can be brought to bear in the analysis of catalogues of design precedents. The techniques include automatic classification, various kinds of frequency analysis, clustering, and connectionist techniques. Connectionist techniques...

In this paper issues such as design evaluation, design simulation, and computer visualization are tackled as key ingredients of visual project analysis. First, a list of design and visual attributes is suggested as a basis for the visual analysis of a project within the context of design...