In this study I will analyse the growth of an urban cluster resulting from interaction with a dynamic spatial pattern comprised of cells and roads. In this case, the cells grow in an irregular pattern and can change in number and state, and the roads direct the growth pattern of the urban...

A classification of built forms is presented. It is based on a study of buildings surveyed at 3350 addresses in four English towns and has been designed for use in the national Non-Domestic Building Stock (NDBS) database developed for the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions. As...

In this paper I will report an empirical study of the patterns and areas of openings -- windows, rooflights, and doors -- in a sample of nondomestic buildings. Strong correlations are shown, for some selected groups of building types, between total areas of openings and total floor areas. The...

In this paper I will describe the bringing together of sources of data on the nondomestic building stock and its energy use, and modelling procedures that form the technologically disaggregated model of energy use in UK buildings known as N-DEEM (nondomestic buildings energy and emissions...

The Smallworld GIS has been customised to create a means of representing the three-dimensional forms of buildings. To do this, buildings are broken down into 'floor polygons', among whose attributes are floor level and storey height. Data for nondomestic buildings at 3350 addresses in four...

The challenge for managing urban change is to identify ways in which to build up a capacity for governance and for capturing opportunities, the active construction of arenas for informed policy debate, and the development of a coherent local view on the process of 'place-making'. Such...

The first part of this paper consists of a summary of previous studies on Russian emissions of oxides of sulphur (SO_x) and nitrogen (NO_x), followed by a summary of reports of Russian carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions. This range of estimates is then compared with reports of emissions from other...

In this paper we examine the recent developments in the Greek system of urban centres, in order to assess the validity of the view that trends of deconcentration have been in operation during the last decade. Estimation of the rank - size distribution functions for all the postwar census years...