Transportation research has usually seen road networks as inert systems to be navigated and eventually filled up by traffic. A new type of 'configurational' road network modelling, coupled to detailed studies of vehicular and pedestrian flows, has shown that road networks have a much more...

In this paper we continue the argument which was presented in a previous paper in <I>Environment and Planning B. </I>There, two spatial genotypes were established within a sample of sixteen Turkish vernacular houses. The first was configurationally integrated around the principal living room or <I>sofa,...</i></i>

The concept of 'difference factor' has been widely used in syntactic analysis of space configurations as a technique to measure the strength of a spatial genotype. Where the rank order of the integration of significant household functions remains stable across a sample of dwellings, and where...

Simple 'space syntax' techniques are used to explore the problem of spatially typing a sample of vernacular farmhouses in Normandy. It is suggested that such techniques can demonstrate that cultural ideas are objectively present in artefacts as much as they are subjectively present in minds.

In this paper we present research into patterns of space use and pedestrian movement in two multilevel urban complexes. Data on movement behaviour were gathered by direct observation within the Barbican and South Bank complexes in London. Conventional space-syntax analysis of spatial...

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...

This paper develops a two-sector (final goods and human capital) general equilibrium endogenous growth model with government spending financed by the three distorting taxes. Endogenous labour-leisure choice is considered. The growth is driven by physical and human capital accumulation as well as...

Motivated by two important problems, the least median of squares (LMS) regression and value-at-risk (VaR) optimization, this paper considers the problem of minimizing the k-th maximum for linear functions. For this study, a sufficient and necessary condition of local optimality is given. From...

'Space syntax' analysis is used by architecture students to investigate the relation between composition and configuration in the houses of four influential modem architects whose work betrays a preoccupation with the formal decomposition of the cube. Analysis reveals that the houses permutate...