An analysis of three modern British house types is described: the 19th-century terrace house, associated with the building byelaws of the 1870s and 1880s; the working-class 'cottage', designed and built by local authorities to new national standards introduced after World War 1; and the private...

This is the second of two papers to report on an analysis of housing form, drawing on a computerised database of a sample of British house plans. The principal topological characteristics of the plans (access, adjacency) are summarised and discussed, and a taxonomy of plan forms is presented,...

As part of a current research project, plan data on approximately 300 dwellings in Cambridge, England have been assembled. The dwellings form part of a representative sample, randomly selected from the existing Cambridge housing stock. The plans have been transcribed and stored with a...

This is the first of two papers to report on an analysis of housing form, drawing on a computerised database of a sample of British house plans. The breakdown of functions within the home and the principal physical dimensions of the plan, as derived from the computer analysis, are summarised....

The <I>Q</I>-analysis algorithm is sometimes used as a clustering procedure, sometimes inappropriately. The data for clustering a set of elements in terms of a set of descriptors are assumed to be weighted in a scale. This paper shows the scale requires no structure beyond an ordinal order relation to...</i>

This is the third in a series of three papers in which the methodological status of <i>Q</i>-analysis is investigated. The methodological rules abstracted in the previous papers are brought together, and the possibility of them being built into an expert system is discussed. A preliminary specification...

The simplicial complexes of a relation have a star structure which is richer than the usual <I>q</I>-connectivity structure of <I>Q</I>-analysis. A mathematical theory of stars is developed in which the star and hub mappings are analogous to a Galois pair. Parameters can be associated with the new structures...</i></i>

This is the first in a series of three papers in which the methodological status of <i>Q</i>-analysis is investigated. Is <i>Q</i>-analysis an esoteric skill, or a general scientific methodology? For completeness the main ideas of <i>Q</i>-analysis are developed from first principles. Then one can investigate if...

Phillip's repertory grid data on children's perception of designed objects had been collected during an experiment devised within Kelly's personal construct theory. Some of the data returned by the children cannot be processed by the techniques usually applied to repertory grids. The slicing...