Spatial Search: Applications to Planning Problems in the Public Sector - Hardcover

Massam, Bryan H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0080242863 ISBN 13: 9780080242866

Publisher: Pergamon Press, 1979

Synopsis

This book offers a wide ranging review of the problems associated with the search for the best location for public facilities. Typical examples of public facilities include roads and railways, pipelines and transmission wires, airports, power stations, community clinics, universities and schools. In an attempt to provide a general structure for tackling location problems in the public sector this book offers an approach based upon the notion of spatial search. This book reviews the state of the art of formal procedures in language and style which is comprehensible to the non-specialist, and places the formal procedures into the broader context of planning. The author discusses problems of measurement, and has also reviewed literature on collective decision-making, public participation, efficiency and Etopia. Case studies are included to clarify the general principles.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pergamon Press
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0080242863
• ISBN 13: 9780080242866
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 316