Guest editorial
Programmed form generation in design 19 – 30
V F Koleichuk
The nature and methods of applied research in architecture 31 – 46
M R Savchenko
The use of computing techniques in the design of residential buildings 47 – 86
L N Avdot'in
Modelling the operation of urban passenger transport with the help of spatial matrices 87 – 94
S lu Liberman
The use of semiotic modelling principles in managing the development of a city as a large system 95 – 105
A I Egorov
A systems model of the city and experiments in using it for a functional and spatial analysis of Moscow 107 – 119
M V Posokhin, A E Gutnov, Iu S Popkov, B L Shmul'ian
Towards a clear grasp of the possibilities: a review of
V N Belousov
A systems approach to modelling urban transport networks as part of the general plan for a city 133 – 140
G N Zubkov, L A Iakovlev
The quadratic assignment problem: an analysis of applications and solution strategies 141 – 162
Robin S Liggett
An approach to built-form connectivity at an urban scale: relationships between built-form connectivity, adjacency measures, and urban spatial structure 163 – 194
M J T Krüger
Office buildings and planning rules 195 – 208
S N Tucker
The grammar of paradise: on the generation of Mughul gardens 209 – 226
G Stiny, W J Mitchell
The generation of Hepplewhite-style chair-back designs 227 – 238
T Weissman Knight
Letter to the editor
Review 241 – 244
Wall representations of rectangular dissections: additional results 247 – 251
U Flemming
The examination and construction of maximal configurations 253 – 264
M Lenart
Complexity: policymakers' divider and possible conqueror 265 – 272
R G Wyatt
Rating-scale methodology for environmental designers 273 – 287
N N Patricios
Enumerating architectural arrangements by generating their underlying graphs 289 – 310
I Baybars, C M Eastman
Rectangular shapes 311 – 342
C F Earl
Introduction to shape and shape grammars 343 – 351
G Stiny
Social science and design theory 353 – 360
P G Dickens
Review 361 – 362
On mapping the world in a mirror 367 – 378
M L Benedikt
A mathematical experiment in landscape planning 379 – 398
J-M Guldmann
Production systems and grammars: a uniform characterization 399 – 408
J Gips, G Stiny
Kindergarten grammars: designing with Froebel's building gifts 409 – 462
G Stiny
The arithmetic of shapes 463 – 484
R Krishnamurti