Spatial change: Continuity, reversibility, and emergent shapes

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 359-384

  Krishnamurti, R ^a   Stouffs, R ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAD; CONTINUITY; EMERGENT SHAPE; REVERSIBILITY; SPATIAL CHANGE;

EID: 0030731051     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/b240359     Document Type: Article

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