Research Catalog

Title

Emerging methods in environmental design and planning ; proceedings of the Design Methods Group first international conference, Cambridge, Mass., June 1968 / Edited by Gary T. Moore.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1970]

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Additional Authors

• Moore, Gary T.
• Cooper, Muriel
• Davis, Allen
• Design Methods Group.
• Omnigraphics, Inc., cover designer. NNC http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/cov

Description

ix, 409 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Subjects

• City planning
• City planning > Congresses
• Environmental engineering > Congresses
• Architectural design > Congresses
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Environment engineering Conference proceedings

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-398).

Contents

Part I. Introduction: -- 1. The state of art in design methods / J. Christopher Jones -- Part II. Thought in design: -- 2. Design: a case history / Richard I. Krauss and John R. Myer, with Scott Danielson and Roger Lewis -- 3. On the analysis of intuitive design processes / Charles M. Eastman -- 4. The role of graphic activity in the design process / Charles W. Rusch -- 5. Comment : on the rational reconstruction of intuition in the design process / Bernard Kaplan -- Part III. Computer-aided design: -- 6. The algorithmic nature of the design process / Thomas F. Heath -- 7. A model of a multilingual designer / Thomas P. Moran -- 8. ICES STRUDL: an integrated approach to a computer system for structural engineering / Robert D. Logcher -- DISCOURSE : a language and system for computer-assisted city design / William Porter, Katherine Lloyd, and Aaron Fleisher -- 10. URBAN5 : a machine that discusses urban design / Nicholas Negroponte and Leon Groisser -- 11. Comment : computer-aided design systems / A. Michael Noll -- Part IV. Identification of problem structure: -- 12. EPS : a computer program for the evaluation of problem structure / Charles F. Davis and Michael D. Kennedy -- 13. CLUSTER : a structure-finding algorithm / Murray Milne -- 14. DCMPOS : an algorithm for the decomposition of nondirected graphs / Charles L. Owen -- 15. Comment : difficulties with network models in problem formulation / Charles D. Kowal -- Part V. Building layout models: -- 16. Evaluation and modification of CRAFT for an architectural methodology / I. Paul Lew and Peter H. Brown -- 17. Network models of configurations fo rectangular parallelepi;eds / Lavette C. Teague, Jr. -- 18. A dual linear graph representation for space-filling location problems of the floor plan type / John Grason -- 19. Comment : theories fo cell configurations / Horst Rittel -- 20. A comprehensive approach to vocational education facility planning / Alan Colker and James Leib -- 21. Comment: The treatment of multiple goals in system models / Paul O. Roberts, Jr. -- Part VI. Evaluation systems: -- 22. Appraisal in the building design process / Thomas W. Maver -- 23. Toward an economics of renewal programming / Arthur Silvers -- 24. Comment : some thoughts on measurement in problem-solving / Michael Brill and Sharon Rose -- Part VII. Applications of systems engineering: -- 25. Systems analysis : the analysis of the expansion of a water supply system / Joseph Stafford, Richard de Neufville, and James Hester -- 26. Systems engineering as applied to planning processes / Paul C. Nutt, David H. Gustafson, and Gerald Nadler -- 27. Comment: Systems engineering : definitions, working hypotheses, and examples / Daniel Brand -- Part VIII. Approaches to the form/behavior relationship: -- 28. Social research and design : applications to mass housing / Brent C. Brolin and John Zeisel -- 29. Notes on a therapeutic environment / Anthony Ward -- 30. A progress report on the pattern language / Francis Duffy and John Torrey -- 31. Comment: On the relation of form to behavior / Charles W. Rusch -- Part IX. Major theories of design and planning methodology: -- 32. An overview of the structure of the design process / L. Bruce Archer -- 33. The atoms fo environmental structure / Christopher Alexander and Barry Poyner -- 34. Engineering research and design in socioeconomic systems / Gerald Nadler -- 35. A design process model : theory and applications to transportation planning / Marvin l. Manheim -- 36. Comment : Is it possible to describe general problem-solving processes? / Aaron Fleisher -- Reflections: -- 37. An experiment in education for planning and design / J. Christopher Jones -- 38. Design and planning : abstract methods or political process? A panel discussion / Bernard Frieden, Barry Jackson, James Morey, and Lisa Peattie; with Marvin L. Manheim, moderator -- 39. We ought to know the difference / John P. Eberhard.

ISBN

• 0262130572
• 9780262130578

LCCN

71087290

OCLC

• ocm00116699
• 116699

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries