This is the first in a series of three papers in which the methodological status of <i>Q</i>-analysis is investigated. Is <i>Q</i>-analysis an esoteric skill, or a general scientific methodology? For completeness the main ideas of <i>Q</i>-analysis are developed from first principles. Then one can investigate if...

A system for providing decision support to people who make locational decisions is described in which the domain-specific knowledge of users is combined with the general problem-solving strategies, techniques, and mathematical models of location analysts. The system elicits and stores separately...

Designs belong to relations.

The most notable problems of rapid urbanisation in Malaysia today include the need for land, housing, and provision of services. The link with day-to-day planning problems, however, remains a critical factor. The quality of planning and decisionmaking processes can be substantially improved when...

The coordination of basic infrastructure, housing, and community facilities is important in new town development in order to ensure that all essential facilities are available to new residents on arrival. A microcomputer-based land information system (LIS) has been used to examine the...

Some relationships between work-load fluctuations and quality of building design are explored. Designers' experience of temporary overstraining and slackness indicates divergent views, associated with level of responsibility. There follow implications for building quality in boom (such as that...

Powerful computing tools, including geographic information systems (GIS), computer-aided design (CAD), and thematic mapping packages, have been developed for producing maps and manipulating geographic information. Various types of computer-assisted mapping systems have been incorporated into...

Development-control data have been widely used both by practitioners and by researchers interested in seeking to assess trends in the demand for development, and the impact of the planning system upon this. However, very little consideration has been given to the robustness of data drawn from...

In the 1990s it is going to be easier to draw voting districts. It is also going to be harder to justify them. They are going to have to be explained in terms of increasingly sophisticated theories of fair districting. How, then, does one demonstrate a link between a particular plan and the...