This paper treats design of the built environment as a decision process and asserts the need for a more objective base for design decisions. A conceptual review of the designer's problem acknowledges the difficulty of resolving multiple objectives and considers the nature of the information...

This paper describes a methodological approach to the design of large residential developments. Techniques are described for predicting the composition of the population in proposed developments, including changes in the age structure and in household formation over time, as the housing...

This paper examines the theoretical relationship between the environmental standards of an activity and the real wage rate for that activity, and argues that the lower standard of the environment of domestic production results from domestic wages being set at a lower level than those of market...

That Le Corbusier used the 'golden number' in <I>Le Modular</I> is well known. This paper examines his earlier attitude toward the 'golden number' as a system of proportion.

In this paper results are presented from two independently developed computer programs -- algorithms RK and CB -- on counting and classifying rectangular dissections. A population census is given for all weights less than eleven. In spite of the radically different approaches adopted by the two...

This paper describes a computer-aided design package, LAYOUT, which can be used for the enumeration of rectangular dissections. It can also be used for the construction of specific plan layouts depending upon requirements of adjacency and size. The work is related to recent research in the area...