Factors Influencing Urban Design, 1979

In het kader van de congressenreeks 'NATO Advanced Study Institute' organiseerde Pierre Laconte aan de UCL in 1979 het internationale colloquium 'Factors Influencing Urban Design'. Het opzet was het volgende: "The course will analyse the interrelationship between environmental concern and energy-saving in the plannign of urban development, and will maintain an awareness of energy problems as the 'guiding link' in a fully multidisciplinary approach."
De sprekers waren de volgende:
1) Planning and Engineering Factors:
- L. Bolle, "Assessment of Energy Consumption of the Urban Forms";
- G. Epstein, "Criteria for Assessing Human Well-being in Urban Settlements";
- P. Laconte, "Density, Energy Consumption, and Physical Layout"
2) Architectural Factors:
- A. Rapoport, "Architecture and Urban Form";
- C. Alexander, "Time and Patterns in Urban Design";
- F. Choay, "Planning and Architectural Models"
3) Economic and Sociological Factors
- E. Wertz, "Political and Administrative Factors of Urban Design";
- J. Rouse, "Economics of Urban Design - Recent Cases in the USA";
4) Systems Approach:
- J.E. Gibson, "Factors Influencing Urban Design: Systems and Models";
- A. Jones, "A Multi-media Approach to Decision-making in Urban Design";
- P.M. Allen, "The City as an Open-ended System".