Planning, as a form of state intervention administered at the local level, is inevitably subject to the pressures and vagaries of governmental and societal change. The recent past has been a particularly turbulent period for local governance and this has inevitably impacted on the role of...

We examine some spatial properties of cities and obtain new results about how travel patterns are influenced by strategic routes such as radials and orbitals. Following a general introduction in which the basic approach is described, we develop a number of key principles, which build on our...

Communicative, or collaborative, planning has received a lot of attention recently. Many planners today agree that planning should be a process of facilitating community collaboration for consensus-building. As a consequence, it seems that communicative rationality is becoming more important in...

As the pace of organisational change accelerates and as new technologies demand more rapid responses from organisations to changing conditions in their business environment, buildings are being called on to play an active role in helping to generate new organisational structures and in...

As in other areas of planning practice, the use of GIS in <i>neighborhood</i> planning has assumed a technical top-down approach. Given the fact that GIS are essentially about providing and analyzing spatial data, it is difficult to envision how their use in local communities could be construed...

In the paper "Shape grammars: six types", the issue of decidability in relation to shape grammars was introduced. Decidability concerns, first, the identification of different types of grammars, and, second, the answerability or solvability of questions about these types of grammars. The first...

Regional land-use planning and regionally based economic development have evolved to a large extent as parallel but separate entities, each occupying distinct policy domains. This absence of holism in regional policymaking has been mirrored by the limited level of academic interest in examining...

In this paper I will describe What if?, a scenario-based, policy-oriented planning support system (PSS) that uses increasingly available GIS data to support community-based processes of collaborative planning and collective decisionmaking. It incorporates procedures for conducting land...

The incidence of change to existing houses and gardens within England's interwar residential areas is examined, the focus being on sample areas originally developed by private enterprise in Birmingham and London. Larger-scale changes, mostly subject to development control by the local authority,...

Urban economists have recently focused on a 'newly recognised' phenomenon: edge cities. In the first part of this paper we review the model of Krugman and Fujita and the model of Henderson and Mitra regarding this urban phenomenon. The introduction of our model represents a possible third way of...