Dutch local authorities used to acquire land long before urban development of the land took place. Recently, private development companies have become active in the Dutch land market. The public monopoly of the land market has been transformed into private monopolies of the building market. One...

The work reported here is a contribution by the authors to the search for reliable metric method for spatial evaluation, related to human perception of 'openness' and to the development of evaluation tools for urban planning and design. A recent innovation, the 'spatial openness index' (SOI), a...

Land-development scenarios as a means of representing the future have been in the planner's toolkit for several decades. In this paper we provide a systematic view of four basic issues that concern scenarists and scenario users -- the concepts, functions, credentials, and efficacy of...

The land-acquisition problem involves selecting multiple discrete parcels to be acquired for a particular land use. In previous models, typical selection criteria have been land cost, land area, and spatial attributes such as contiguity and compactness. Here I introduce a new spatial attribute,...

In this paper, we propose a multilevel network perspective for the conceptualization of the dynamics underlying supply chains in the presence of competition. The multilevel network consists of: the logistical network, the informational network, and the financial network. We describe the behavior...

In the field of public library study, travel costs incurred when returning books is an important issue for the spatial distribution of users, as well as the load necessary in the process of book borrowing. In recent years, the Free Return System, which is a subsystem of Library Services, has...

In this paper we propose a multiclass, multicriteria network equilibrium framework for urban location and transportation decisions in the Information Age, in which the advent of telecommunication networks may provide a substitute for physical transportation. The framework interprets the option...

This paper discusses the recent and future operational performance of the Russian electricity-generation industry, which is central to government plans for industrial regeneration and environmental improvement. The paper commences with information on outputs from the industry, namely current and...

The need to implement shape grammars efficiently, rather than hardcode them, in a way that supports creativity through shape emergence is an ongoing research challenge. This paper introduces a shape grammar interpreter that supports parametric subshape recognition, and thereby shape emergence....