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The Facets of Place
This chapter will outline one theory aimed at integrating aspects of environmental
psychology with issues in architectural design. The theory to be reviewed is broad
in those characteristics of theory that Moore (1987) called their 'form and scope'.
This broad brush, top down approach is intended as a contrast with bottom up
attempts to specify the behavioural effects of specific aspects of design, such as
lighting levels or size of spaces. It also contrasts with models that seek to answer
immediate design problems. However, in Moore's (1987) vocabulary, the theory
to be outlined is more than an 'orientation', or 'framework'. It is an 'explanatory
theory' that has been found to have considerable scope, open to direct empirical
test
Primary Facets Of Order Polytopes
Mixture models on order relations play a central role in recent
investigations of transitivity in binary choice data. In such a model, the
vectors of choice probabilities are the convex combinations of the
characteristic vectors of all order relations of a chosen type. The five
prominent types of order relations are linear orders, weak orders, semiorders,
interval orders and partial orders. For each of them, the problem of finding a
complete, workable characterization of the vectors of probabilities is
crucial---but it is reputably inaccessible. Under a geometric reformulation,
the problem asks for a linear description of a convex polytope whose vertices
are known. As for any convex polytope, a shortest linear description comprises
one linear inequality per facet. Getting all of the facet-defining inequalities
of any of the five order polytopes seems presently out of reach. Here we search
for the facet-defining inequalities which we call primary because their
coefficients take only the values -1, 0 or 1. We provide a classification of
all primary, facet-defining inequalities of three of the five order polytopes.
Moreover, we elaborate on the intricacy of the primary facet-defining
inequalities of the linear order and the weak order polytopes
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