The Mathematics of Spatial Configuration: Revisiting, Revising and Critiquing Justified Plan Graph Theory

Nexus Network Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 445-470

  Ostwald, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

graph theory; Justified plan graph; mathematical analysis; plan analysis; Space Syntax

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960565351     PISSN: 15905896     EISSN: 15224600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00004-011-0075-3     Document Type: Article

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