Guest editorial
The daring experiment: social scientists and land-use planning in 1940s Britain 3 – 17
M Hebbert
'Rational method' as a mode of policy formation and implementation in land-use policy 19 – 39
Patsy Healey
The Anglo-American connection: rival rationalities in planning theory and practice, 1955 - 1980 41 – 46
P Hall
The representation of urban planning-processes: an exploratory review 47 – 62
I Masser
Reflections on rationality in strategic choice 63 – 69
J K Friend
Ideology, politics, and planning: reflections on the theory and practice of urban planning 71 – 87
M J Kiernan
The myth of rationality: development planning reconsidered 89 – 99
M M Webber
A practical view of planning theory 101 – 115
M J Breheny
Reviews 117 – 122
Transformations of languages of designs: part 1 125 – 128
T Weissman Knight
Transformations of languages of designs: part 2 129 – 154
T Weissman Knight
Transformations of languages of designs: part 3 155 – 177
T Weissman Knight
The limits to and effective use of evaluation methods 179 – 192
M C Poulton
A behaviorally based framework for multicriteria decision-making under uncertainty in the urban transportation context 193 – 206
H Mahmassani, R Krzysztofowicz
Implications of the generalised upper bounding structure in land-use allocation 207 – 217
R S Anderssen, K D Cocks, J R Ive
The assessment of access to local shopping opportunities: a comparison of accessibility measures 219 – 238
C M Guy
Letter to the editor
Reviews 241 – 244
Editorial
Circuit-based indices of locational accessibility 249 – 260
F Southworth
Planning the provision of urban facilities according to local needs 261 – 268
J Moucka
Estimation of singly-constrained nested spatial interaction models 269 – 274
J R Roy
Environmental factors, perceived distance and spatial behavior 275 – 281
J L Nasar
Information systems for regional development planning: a state-of-the-art survey 283 – 302
P Nijkamp
Exploring the similarities of different risks 303 – 329
S M Macgill
SIRO-PLAN and LUPLAN: an Australian approach to land-use planning. 1. The SIRO-PLAN land-use planning method 331 – 345
K D Cocks, J R Ive, J R Davis, I A Baird
SIRO-PLAN and LUPLAN: an Australian approach to land-use planning. 2. The LUPLAN land-use planning package 347 – 355
J R Ive, K D Cocks
Reviews 357 – 366
Guest editorial
The Q-controversy: issues and nonissues 371 – 380
S M Macgill
Reflective distanciation through a metamethodological perspective 381 – 392
P Gould
Q-analysis and the theory of social scientific knowledge 393 – 401
I G Cullen
Using mathematics to simplify Q-analysis 403 – 422
H B Griffiths
On some problems in defining sets for Q-analysis 423 – 438
H Couclelis
Rethinking backcloth and traffic: perspectives from social network analysis and Q-analysis 439 – 456
S B Seidman
Q-analysis: a theory of stars 457 – 469
J H Johnson
Design in a universe of chance 471 – 484
L March
Letter to the editor
Review 487 – 488
Index 489 – 491