Land-use modelling and spatial scenarios have gained attention as a means to meet the challenge of reducing uncertainty in spatial planning and decision making. Many of the recent modelling efforts incorporate cellular automata to accomplish spatially explicit land-use-change modelling. Spatial...

The SIMPLAN modelling suite comprises four modules for informing the process of city planning. The first module (called TAM) is concerned with analysing the evolution of the spatial structure of a city. The second module (called RLM) is an econometric residential location model that uses average...

What can we learn of the human mind by examining its products? The city is a case in point. Since the beginning of cities human ideas about them have been dominated by geometric ideas, and the real history of cities has always oscillated between the geometric and the ‘organic’. Set in the...

GRAPPA, an implementation of the Palladian grammar, is introduced. Graphs are used for the underlying representation, graph grammars take over the computation. Once a set of graph grammar rules equivalent to the original set of shape rules is defined, derivations, in the form of attributed...

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As a first statistical study of a planning authority’s reasons for rejecting development proposals, this study examines hydraulic and transport engineering reasons adopted by the Town Planning Board for dismissing development applications for ‘small house’ use in Green Belt and Agriculture...

This paper is about state – market relations in speculative housebuilding, with specific reference to the means by which higher quality design can be achieved in new residential developments. Applying the concept of opportunity space, we investigate the extent to which form-based/design...

Recent work exploring the use of agent-based models (ABMs) in a planning support role must be accompanied by an evaluation of the possible constraints that exist to the use of these models. This research presents an evaluation, from the perspective of professional tourism planners, of the...