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John F. Brotchie John W. Dickey Ron Sharpe

TOPAZGeneral Planning Technique and its Applications at the Regional, Urban, and Facility Planning Levels

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH

Editorial Board

H. Albach A. V. Balakrishnan M. Beckmann (Managing Editor) P. Dhrymes J. Green W. Hildenbrand W. Krelle H. P. Künzi (Managing Editor) K. Ritter R. Sato H. Schelbert P. Schönfeld Managing Editors Prof. Dr. M. Beckmann Brown University Providence, RI 02912/USA

Prof. Dr. H. P. Künzi . Universität Zürich CH·8090 Zürich/Schweiz

Authors

John F. Brotchie CSIRO Division of Building Research

P. O. Box 56 Highett, Victoria 3190 Australia John W. Dickey Division of Environmental and Urban Systems College of Arch itecture & Urban Studies Virgin ia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, VA 24061/USA Ron Sharpe CSIRO Division of Building Research P. O. Box 56 Highett, Victoria 3190 Austral ia

ISBN 978-3-540-10020-1

ISBN 978-3-642-51574-3 (eBook)

DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-51574-3 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically those of translation, reprinting. re-use of illustrations, broadcasting, reproduction by photocopying machine or sirnilar means, and storage in data banks. Under § 54 of the German Copyr ight Law where copies are made for other than private use, a fee is payable to the publisher, the amount of the fee 10 be determined by agreement with the publisher. © by

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1980

Originally publish ed by Sp ringer- Verlag Berl in Heidelberg New York in 1980 .

PREFACE

This book presents a comprehensive technique developed ning of facilities cation to urban vice

systems

and

and

and

regional

in

planning

facilities at the

technique or model Activities in

resource use

is termed

Zones),

and

TOPAZ

~ay

space and

and

to

time,

planning and

local

(Technique

for

Optimal

be applied

also

to

is

now ten years since This book

model.

experience gained

marks that in

its

the

its appli-

applications and

ser-

levels.

The

Placement of

planning

the

use of

land~

initial development of

tenth anniversary

plan-

of public

regional

scarce resources such as transport energy and urban It

and

for

the TOPAZ

and describes

the

further development

over

that decade. TOPAZ is the urban land

use-transport models.

nity level, planning cial

first and most widely used of a

it has been applied

and design of hospital,

facilities

U.S.A.,

We are aware cf over

Indonesia. and the model

in the

third

itself.

first generation

it was realized

for

survived age of

educational, Australia,

planning at the commu-

regional

planning

industrial

and

New Zealand,

and

to

commerIran and

forty such applications of TOPAZ up along with an outline of

Its simultaneous development to meet additional ending with

and

its recent evolution as

of urban models was developed

mistic decade of the sixties to

and

for

and

generation of

generation model.

The

before

u