Community corrections centers (CCCs, or ‘halfway houses’) represent a community-based justice strategy intended to reintegrate offenders into civil society. Site selection for these facilities is complicated by negative perceptions of CCC impacts on the part of potential host communities. I...

Over the course of many years, professional planners have used a plethora of methods and tools to support their planning activities. Nevertheless, it can be argued that planning practioners have never fully embraced the much wider diversity of available methods, techniques, and models developed...

In this paper we describe the developments of European building regulatory systems and place them within the context of general trends in the regulatory sciences, particularly with reference to Europeanisation studies. Within the regulatory sciences there is broad consensus about the trend...

In this paper we suggest an approach for understanding the spatial behavior and structure of cities. It views cities as physical objects and is based on urban morphology alone. The units of examination are urban clusters instead of municipalities defined by politically determined boundaries....

In this paper we present and apply a modeling methodology to reduce stormwater runoff through land-use planning, in order to mitigate the impact of nonpoint source pollution. A stormwater-runoff simulation model is used to generate peak discharge pseudodata, that are inputted into a regression...

Studies in several cities have shown that inner-city residents travel shorter distances and use cars less for local transport than suburbanites do. However, according to some authors, a low daily amount of travel is likely to be compensated through more extensive leisure mobility at weekends and...

Local street systems comprise networks of collectors and alleys in a block bounded by arterials. In this study we develop a model for analyzing the spacing design of local streets. The model is designed as a multiobjective grey integer programming approach, which considers three objectives:...

In this paper we introduce a subshape matching technique for shapes composed of curved lines that lie in a plane. An interpreter with this ability allows for the practical implementation of general shape grammars as well as opening the door for new applications of shape grammars. This method for...