The existing literature on Chinese housing reform focuses on the historical account of reform events in the privatisation process. In this paper I will concentrate on the approaches and impacts of housing privatisation in China and examine the distorted and partial nature of the privatisation...

In this study we investigate an urban planning problem where an area is to be rehabilitated. The area is divided into several subareas any of which could be the starting point for the rehabilitation process. The ultimate goal is to find a rank order for the alternative subareas which specifies...

A shape-grammatical interpretation is given for the anthyphairetic procedures of Platonic mathematics

The prehistoric cultural landscape of Chaco Canyon is made up of monumental great houses and small houses. The Chaco Canyon architectural record has been extensively studied, yet the relationship between great and small houses remains a fundamental problem of Southwest archaeology. By using...

In this paper we consider how viewing population distribution as a landscape can aid our understanding of urban morphology and process. Such surfaces are characterised by a highly positively skewed distribution and usually appear 'spikey' when viewed obliquely. Two methods are suggested to...

The word vision and other related terms have become common in planning discourse. Most planning theorists, researchers, and practitioners have used them as though their meanings were self-evident and clearly agreed upon. A careful examination of ten to fifteen years of planning literature and...

The symmetry properties of the Froebel building gifts are discussed in detail. A special emphasis is given to the cycle indices of their permutation groups. They are used in the enumeration of n<=3 colour assignments on the faces of the building blocks