The author introduces a decision method for facilitating physical planning and other decision processes at central government level, at the same time, taking into account some justified differences in local needs for the provision of urban facilities. The method considers the following factors...

Functional requirements in architectural design are usually expressed verbally as normative statements (norms) to be satisfied by the physical design. The norms may be formalised and propositional calculus used to determine an exhaustive set of possible solutions (and vice versa). Some early...

This paper describes a methodological approach to the design of large residential developments. Techniques are described for predicting the composition of the population in proposed developments, including changes in the age structure and in household formation over time, as the housing...