Landscape Grammar 1: Spatial Grammar Theory and Landscape Planning

Mayall, Kevin; Hall, Gene E.

doi:10.1068/b31175

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“…These terms may be used with hyphens (-) and sometimes without and this is likely to lead to some inaccuracies in the results of published work. This suggests the need for appropriate "spatial grammar" as to this point Virtual Globes appear to be only vaguely addressed as a scientific subject of research [59]. The authors are well aware of critiques and skepticism about bibliometric analysis and want to be careful with the interpretation of the resulting numbers.…”

Section: Heterogeneous Terminology: An Empirical Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

Virtual Globes: Serving Science and Society

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Virtual Globes reached the mass market in 2005. They created multi-million dollar businesses in a very short time by providing novel ways to explore data geographically. We use the term “Virtual Globes” as the common denominator for technologies offering capabilities to annotate, edit and publish geographic information to a world-wide audience and to visualize information provided by the public and private sectors, as well as by citizens who volunteer new data. Unfortunately, but not surprising for a new trend or paradigm, overlapping terms such as “Virtual Globes”, “Digital Earth”, “Geospatial Web”, “Geoportal” or software specific terms are used heterogeneously. We analyze the terminologies and trends in scientific publications and ask whether these developments serve science and society. While usage can be answered quantitatively, the authors reason from the literature studied that these developments serve to educate the masses and may help to democratize geographic information by extending the producer base. We believe that we can contribute to a better distinction between software centered terms and the generic concept as such. The power of the visual, coupled with the potential of spatial analysis and modeling for public and private purposes raises new issues of reliability, standards, privacy and best practice. This is increasingly addressed in scientific literature but the required body of knowledge is still in its infancy

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Section: Heterogeneous Terminology: An Empirical Studymentioning

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Virtual Globes: Serving Science and Society

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“…My work draws on previous research in multiple areas, including McCoy's work demonstrating the link between physical space and creativity [14,15], examinations by Lewis & Moultrie among others of creative spaces in organizations [11,9], work on visual grammars by Stiny and others [19,12], and work on patterns by Alexander et al in architecture [1] and Qian & Woodbury [17] in digital interpretation. I also draw on Gibson's theory of affordances [7] and linguistic grammar [4,10].…”

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“…Chomsky's theory of a syntax-neutral grammar [4], i.e. one in which syntacticality is not dependent on meaning, enabled the creation of nonlinguistic visual grammars such as shape and landscape grammars [19,12]. Each of these visual grammars adheres to the same three-element structure.…”

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confidence: 99%

Creativity syntax

Williams

2011

Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Creativity and Cognition

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The impact of the physical environment on people's ability to be optimally creative at work is a research area which has only now, in the past decade, started to receive detailed attention. Although creativity in the workplace has been the subject of intensive research for over half a century researchers have stepped away from or minimized the effect that the physical environment may have on people's creativity and ability to innovate. Building on recent work done in the field, and on earlier theories of pattern language and shape grammar, this paper outlines work that moves towards a grammar of creative spaces identifying and codifying those elements of the physical environment which may optimize creativity in the workplace.

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“…A further contribution comes from shape grammars, for instance Mayall and Hall's (2005) work, which uses a vocabulary of landscape object types and spatial syntax rules, and these can be used to generate scenes.…”

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confidence: 99%